Party lagging my comp, buy more ram?

[Matt24]

My computer is running anywhere from 60-100% when I am just 6 tabling Party and running one other site.

I bought my computer last April and it is a 3.00 GHZ Pentium 4, 2.99 GHz, 2.00 GB RAM. I also have 3 video cards in the machine, will I still be able to stuff more RAM in there?

[bigalt]

that's odd that it's using that much CPU. i sincerely doubt more RAM will help.

is it partygaming.exe that's using up all the CPU time?

[Matt24]

I have PT and PV running as well, but Partygaming is huge. 80k. Using anywhere from 40-50% when I go to processes, PT is usually around 20. System Idle Process floats anywhere from 13-50 as well.

[bigalt]

the system idle process is just 100-(sum of all programs running), i think

are you resizing windows? that seems to give a lot of people problems.

I think it's probably pretty safe to say that it's party's problem and not yours. you could possibly alleviate the problem by messing with the page file permissions for party but i have no idea what [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[Matt24]

nope, no resizing windows. The old Party used up way less memory.

[wonderwes]

With specs like that your machine should run like a champ. That is very odd. Did a disk defragment make any difference? Its just hard to see that more ram would solve that. Its unreal why it is taking up so much system resources.

[Matt24]

anybody got any ideas?

[LINES]

Cut down your porn surfing time. My computer is a little better than yours (I only have 2 gcards) and i run Party perfectly. Try doing a scan for malicious spyware and so forth. Back in my CS days, my computer would lag hardcore whenever i even tried to run CS. Did a scan and got rid of everything -BOOM- back to normal speed.

[ColdCaller]

Gotta be Spyware/Adware, or processes that are severely leaking memory (as Firefox is known to do).

[LINES]

Try doing a scan for malicious spyware and so forth