Author Topic: Going mad. (Read 337 times)

red26 · « **on:** August 14, 2006, 08:11:33 AM »

Been working on this for a wile now. I will be in a dogfight and My screen freezes up and soon after that I crash. When I key up to talk on the radio the screen freezes. If I fire my wepons that screen freezes but it will only do it once then like if I dont fire my wepon for a wile it will freezes agin. This is killing me I will get to frustrated to fly and log off. can some one help me out? PLEASE??

Im starting to go MAD:rofl I tell ya mad:rofl LOL

Schatzi · « **Reply #1 on:** August 14, 2006, 10:06:39 AM »

Hmmm... this could be a sound driver issue... or a resource issue.

Can you post a dxdiag, please?

red26 · « **Reply #2 on:** August 14, 2006, 10:24:18 AM »

As soon as I get home I will post it.Hey Schatzi when are you going to become a tranner? I always get some of the best information from ya.
If I see you answer my ? I know that it will be fixed. I just want to let you know that Im glad that you are around to help me and all the others. I hope you continue to do all the good work that you do. If i could give you a medal I would. Agin thank you for putting up with me in the past and thanks for all the help that you have given me and all the outhers.

Schatzi · « **Reply #3 on:** August 14, 2006, 12:12:52 PM »

Youre very welcome red

>S<

I just give some of what I get back. And im not the only one doing an amazing job fixing problems, answering questions and finding a solution to all those little issues out there. Its a great community!

red26 · « **Reply #4 on:** August 14, 2006, 12:35:51 PM »

True. I will send that Info. As soon as i get home tonight OK? Oh and How is the weather in Germany now? I miss it so much. Lots of good food and good times.

Schatzi · « **Reply #5 on:** August 14, 2006, 01:28:42 PM »

Cold and rainy... youre not missing anything right now

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red26 · « **Reply #6 on:** August 14, 2006, 01:39:12 PM »

Ok I work at a computer simce corp. and I dont get much time to ask any of the guy's around here for help but I did hapen to see a programer on his way to his work desck and asked him about my prob. He askhow much RAM I had on my PC I tould him I think 256 RAM he said that would more than likley be my problem now how dose RAM keep you video from jumping. Oh and I can tell ya I run a Nvidia 6100 right now. I get the rest of the stuff to you later. But How dose RAM decide how you computer works I thought it was just for storeing stuff.???????

Schatzi · « **Reply #7 on:** August 14, 2006, 02:28:05 PM »

In very simple words: RAM is the place yur CPU places things that it is currently needing for fast access.

Think of it like cooking. You put the tools and pots and all the stuff out of the drawers and shelves next to your oven and things go a LOT faster then if you have to open the drawer each time you need a knive. Little RAM means the space next to the oven is limited and you can only have a few tools out of the drawer at the same time

Edit: Schutt just came in and told me that men dont get comparisons where cooking is concerned. Dont need much "cooking RAM" to open a tin of Ravioli .
He put it this way:

Think of working on a project while sitting on your desk. The papers (data) you need is stored in an archive downstairs. Now RAM is the space you got on your desk. When starting your work, you go downstairs and pick up as many stacks of papers as your RAM allows you, set them on your desk and start working. Now you can very easily imagine - with little RAM, you cant put ALL the paper stacks you need on your desk at once. That means while working youll have to go downstairs and swap the stacks (load new data). Work will progress considerably slower that way.

PS: do you have 256 MB *system* RAM or VidMem (GC have extra RAM)? I wouldnt think AH would even load with 256 MB sysRAM. Anyway, dxdiag will show that.

red26 · « **Reply #8 on:** August 14, 2006, 02:36:32 PM »

So the more RAM you have the faster your CPU will run right. Im just learning about CP's so forgive me for not beeing up to speed. been playing X-Box too long LOL. Is there any drivers for my video card that I could down load to help it out a little and is a Nvidia 6100 fast enough to handle AH.?

Skuzzy · « **Reply #9 on:** August 14, 2006, 03:03:24 PM »

The more RAM you have the less the CPU has to fetch from the hard drive which is many factors slower than RAM.

Also note, I sent you an email about your game settings. The 6100 is a very low end video card. It needs all the help it can get.

Bogie603rd · « **Reply #10 on:** August 14, 2006, 04:10:57 PM »

NOTE: If you find a stick of RAM from an old computer. DON'T USE IT! I tried that from an old computer our family had. Just didn't know a HARDWARE virus killed the comp, so I stuck the RAM into my system and in 3 hours time I got the rip-stinking virus on my comp. For the next 10 days I would be trying to erase the virus:furious .

Skuzzy · « **Reply #11 on:** August 14, 2006, 04:18:03 PM »

RAM, from a computer, will not contain anything once power is removed from it. It would have been impossible to get a virus from a stick of RAM.

Even when power is still applied, RAM requires a refresh. Without that refresh (driven by the CPU), the RAM will start losing what it had contained within seconds.