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Posted 28 December 2004 - 09:57 AM

In games like The Sims 2, or Half Life 2, or most games that are fairly (ok, an understatement) advanced - is more RAM going to reduce loading times? Or would a better graphics card do that?
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Posted 28 December 2004 - 02:52 PM

yes, RAM reduce loading time. A gamer MUST have at least 1GB of RAM



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Posted 28 December 2004 - 05:37 PM

I don't know about the graphic cards, which I suppose to give you better graphics, but the more RAM you have, the faster the loading time. A fast processor will help too, no? The big three for gaming. smile.gif


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Posted 28 December 2004 - 05:40 PM

yeah,
a good GC give u great picture an graphics
More ram means faster loading
A powerful processor means faster gameplay



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Posted 28 December 2004 - 07:16 PM

Faster processors, faster-spinning hard drives, hard drives with more cache on board, a nicely unfragmented hard drive and more RAM.
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Posted 28 December 2004 - 10:49 PM

Disabling some of the background running applications will speed things up, the cheap way. Try this site: http://www.blackviper.com/
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Posted 29 December 2004 - 11:56 AM

SATA HDD has more advantage than an IDE one



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Posted 31 December 2004 - 12:15 AM

Would the RAM make things smoother?
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Posted 31 December 2004 - 02:06 AM

Oh yes, definitely, more RAM would reduce the loading times significantly.
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Posted 02 January 2005 - 04:31 PM

It makes a whole lot difference, ecspcially in HL2.



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Posted 19 February 2005 - 02:09 PM

what would happen if someone has 2gb or RAM?
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Posted 19 February 2005 - 02:50 PM

Erm...faster? laugh.gif






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Posted 19 February 2005 - 04:19 PM

What would happen? Faster loading time in games. Faster application runnings...
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Posted 19 February 2005 - 04:54 PM

And remember to do periodic defragmentations of you HardDisk... you will be supprised how much faster your program loads and works... smile.gif
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Posted 19 February 2005 - 05:03 PM

QUOTE(airwind @ Feb 19 2005, 05:04 PM)
And remember to do periodic defragmentations of you HardDisk... you will be supprised how much faster your program loads and works... smile.gif

But dont use the built-in defragmenter unless yo have Norton defrag, coz its not as efficient as those of Norton ones.
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Posted 19 February 2005 - 10:54 PM

Don't put too much RAM, until you have a processor that can handle huge amounts of data.
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Posted 20 February 2005 - 03:06 PM

Windows ME can't handle too much RAM. It'll screw up and become slower instead. laugh.gif


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Posted 20 February 2005 - 04:35 PM

Where to get Norton Defrag?Well,too much RAM can slow your PC down,cos like AiRBOOM said,some versions of Windows just cant support the ammount of RAm you are using.Read one of the PCGM issues in the Dave Science section at the end of every mag (before te makeover) at the bottom of the page.Quite interesting.






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Posted 20 February 2005 - 06:12 PM

Not only the OS, the processor. Mind my words. tongue.gif
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Posted 20 February 2005 - 07:06 PM

Erm,anyone knows where to get the Norton defrag?






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Posted 20 February 2005 - 07:12 PM

this is gonna go OT..get diskkeeper9.0...the best defragmenting tool there is..
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Posted 20 February 2005 - 07:19 PM

And where do I get THAT?Ok,back to the topic,defrag,faster RPM HDD and more RAM should do the job,unless the game is coded badly and wont run properly...






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Posted 20 February 2005 - 07:49 PM

ur gonna have to either buy legally or u can buy the u-know-what version...
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Posted 18 September 2005 - 02:37 PM

QUOTE(ArmedandDangerous @ Feb 20 2005, 07:29 PM)
And where do I get THAT?Ok,back to the topic,defrag,faster RPM HDD and more RAM should do the job,unless the game is coded badly and wont run properly...

Yeah . And ramember to uninstall programs that you dont use and clean your reg . Thats all.
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Post icon  Posted 18 September 2005 - 09:00 PM

QUOTE(eng_hui @ Sep 18 2005, 02:47 PM)
QUOTE(ArmedandDangerous @ Feb 20 2005, 07:29 PM)
And where do I get THAT?Ok,back to the topic,defrag,faster RPM HDD and more RAM should do the job,unless the game is coded badly and wont run properly...

Yeah . And ramember to uninstall programs that you dont use and clean your reg . Thats all.

i personally use System Mechanic to keep my system in tip top condition smile.gif
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