AH not recognizing my ram?

[Denholm]

...edit: my system refused to preload textures or state whatever ram it is using within AH when I had 3 gig. My machine was jerky as heck with 3 gigs, when I dropped it to two 1 gig simms, it got a heckuvalot smoother.

Wait, when you had 3 GB of RAM in your system, were you using 3 sticks of RAM or only 2? If you were using 3 sticks, that might be your problem. From what I've been told you can only have even amounts of RAM in your system (1 is the exception). So that would mean you either use 1, 2, 4, or 6 sticks of RAM.

That might have been why your system was jerky with 3 gigs.

[Delirium]

From what I've been told you can only have even amounts of RAM in your system (1 is the exception).

I think that is the case if you want to take advantage of dual channel ram, but I may be wrong.

As they say, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing and I am proof positive.

[Denholm]

Well, you could always buy yourself a single 2GB stick, then you can use one of your 1GB sticks and have a total of 3GB.

[Hajo]

Del.....denholm asked a good question. Are you filling 3 slots out of 4 with memory? Dual channel?

The slots are matched....and when you place memory in the system on some PCs you just can't fill the slots.

You have to place the ram in the proper slot. I'm using 4meg of ram DDR2.

In some or most of the machines in filling two slots they go in alternate slots.  1 and 3 for example.

Some machines won't use 3 slots out of the 4....the 3rd stick of ram will foul the system.

I'm using 4 gig....all 4 slots filled and everything works fine.

I reload all textures and skins into cache with no problems at all.

this might explain your 3 gig problem.

[Kermit de frog]

Some motherboards can support uneven amounts of memory in Dual channel, so the only way to tell is by knowing your motherboard model number.
So post the model of your motherboard for further help.

Deli, you are still talking about preloading TWO items?  Preloading TEXTURES and preloading SKINS right?




Hajo, when you press CONTROL + I, what does AH report for USED SYSTEM MEMORY?