Insuficient RAM? Bad RAM? Help me out here...

[Arch_Tyrant]

Ok so everytime I try to play any kind of game on my laptop, I always get a good 5 minutes of playing in when all of a sudden...My laptop just freezes, forcing me to unplug it and wait a couple hours for it to shut itself off so I can play again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Everyone I have talked to has either said that I need a new graphics card or I need to get more RAM because the RAM I have now is either bad or insuficient.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is what it says when I go to 'Control Panel > System'

 

 

 

Acer Inc.

 

 

 

AcerSystem

 

 

 

AMD Turion 64 Mobile

 

 

 

Technology ML-30

 

 

 

160 GHz, 448 MB of RAM

 

 

 

Physical Address Extension

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The only reason it doesn't do this when I play RuneScape is because...well obviously RuneScape runs off Java.

 

 

 

But Im talking about games like Warcraft and CD-Rom games and junk like that.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Could someone please help?

 

 

 

If I need more RAM about how much would I need and about how much would it cost me?

[Darrel104]

It shouldn't be because of ram because you always have virtual ram if you have insufficient ram. Before you listen to people that say buy things get some help from a computer specific forum most likely they are just guessing and computers can be deciving. Is 160mz the speed of your graphics card or your computer?

[Arch_Tyrant]

It shouldn't be because of ram because you always have virtual ram if you have insufficient ram.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If it's not my lack of RAM thats causing the problem then what is it?

[Darrel104]

It could be many things and sorry I meant virtual memory. You should post it on a computer specific forum to get better answers because i hardly ever see hardware problems get solved here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

is this any help to you?

 

 

 

http://forum.tip.it/viewtopic.php?p=407 ... t=#4076518

[Cruiser]

Virtual memory is pretty useless when it comes to gaming. The swapping to disc will just lag the game even more because it's so much slower than pulling directly from ram.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The 160ghz is most likely 1.60ghz. Nothing runs at 160ghz, including video cards and memory.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Before you go out buying another stick or ram (although an upgrade to 768 or 1gb wouldn't be a bad thing), you should go download Memtest86, burn it to a cd, boot to it and let it run for a while to see if your memory throws any errors. If it doesn't accumulate any errors after running for a while then your memory isn't the issue.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As for waiting for hours for the computer to shut itself off, it isn't needed. You can hold the power button for ~10 seconds to force a hard shut off. It isn't the best thing to do but it's no different than letting the battery die. It just saves you the hours of waiting.

[Arch_Tyrant]

Virtual memory is pretty useless when it comes to gaming. The swapping to disc will just lag the game even more because it's so much slower than pulling directly from ram.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The 160ghz is most likely 1.60ghz. Nothing runs at 160ghz, including video cards and memory.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Before you go out buying another stick or ram (although an upgrade to 768 or 1gb wouldn't be a bad thing), you should go download Memtest86, burn it to a cd, boot to it and let it run for a while to see if your memory throws any errors. If it doesn't accumulate any errors after running for a while then your memory isn't the issue.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As for waiting for hours for the computer to shut itself off, it isn't needed. You can hold the power button for ~10 seconds to force a hard shut off. It isn't the best thing to do but it's no different than letting the battery die. It just saves you the hours of waiting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks that helped alot.

 

 

 

Ill try the mem test right now