Hi guys, if anyone can help me figure this out I'll give you karma every day for ten days and will ask some mates to chip in as well.
My problem is this: many times when I enter the doors of the titan, my framerate drops to about 4 per second. The sound effects stutter. When I walk back outside the titan, the problem goes away. This does not happen every time I go into the titan, but many times. And recently it's been happening outside the titan too, sometimes on Minsk when both titans are near each other in the air.
Initially I thought the problem was on the server side and for some reason my computer didn't like certain servers. A lot of times I could reboot the game and I wouldn't have the problem the next time.
However I've come to think that it's not a server-specific issue, because even after I disconnect, the super-slowness happens in the 2142 setup menus. And one time when the game crashed, I had a Windows popup window waiting for me on the desktop saying that Windows was low on virtual memory and that I should close some programs.
I tried to fix this after googling for a bit. I think part of the problem is that I have such a small C partition, which was recommended by many sources when I set up my computer. I have around 2 gigs of free space on C, so I can guess when virtual memory used is greater than the amount of free space, that's when I start getting the major problems. I also read that with 64-bit systems like mine, if you have enough ram you don't need to have a pagefile. So I set my system to have no pagefile, but that didn't work either, I still have the same problem sometimes.
Does anyone have any ideas, and can you help me to figure out how to best set up my virtual memory / page file?
I'm running XP Pro, x64 version. Windows is installed on C partition, which is 8GB and has 2 gigs free. 2142 and other programs are installed on E partition which is 40GB and has 9 gigs free. I also have a G partition which is 200 GB and has 160GB free. My GPU is a Nvidia 6800GT, and my main CPU is an Opteron. I am running 2142 at 800x600 with most ingame video settings at low or medium.
My problem is this: many times when I enter the doors of the titan, my framerate drops to about 4 per second. The sound effects stutter. When I walk back outside the titan, the problem goes away. This does not happen every time I go into the titan, but many times. And recently it's been happening outside the titan too, sometimes on Minsk when both titans are near each other in the air.
Initially I thought the problem was on the server side and for some reason my computer didn't like certain servers. A lot of times I could reboot the game and I wouldn't have the problem the next time.
However I've come to think that it's not a server-specific issue, because even after I disconnect, the super-slowness happens in the 2142 setup menus. And one time when the game crashed, I had a Windows popup window waiting for me on the desktop saying that Windows was low on virtual memory and that I should close some programs.
I tried to fix this after googling for a bit. I think part of the problem is that I have such a small C partition, which was recommended by many sources when I set up my computer. I have around 2 gigs of free space on C, so I can guess when virtual memory used is greater than the amount of free space, that's when I start getting the major problems. I also read that with 64-bit systems like mine, if you have enough ram you don't need to have a pagefile. So I set my system to have no pagefile, but that didn't work either, I still have the same problem sometimes.
Does anyone have any ideas, and can you help me to figure out how to best set up my virtual memory / page file?
I'm running XP Pro, x64 version. Windows is installed on C partition, which is 8GB and has 2 gigs free. 2142 and other programs are installed on E partition which is 40GB and has 9 gigs free. I also have a G partition which is 200 GB and has 160GB free. My GPU is a Nvidia 6800GT, and my main CPU is an Opteron. I am running 2142 at 800x600 with most ingame video settings at low or medium.