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Originally Posted by klem
I have been using Commodo for some time but I keep seeing memory usage ramp up (about a 45 degree sawtooth ramp) for up to a minute or so before collapsing down again. This co-incides with commodo's cmdagent.exe showing a massive climbing "Hard Faults / Sec" count in Task Manager's resource Monitor. I only notice this when CoD is running although it may be happening with other programs to a lesser degree. It is visible in Task Manager and in a utility called membooster that I use to repeatedly optimise memory to try to keep it clean and so that I get these warnings and can restart the game before it crashes
I don't understand the true meaning of all this but the co-incidence is there.
I uninstalled commodo and turned on Windows Firewall and Defender instead for my Wednesday night session. I still got one "High Memory Usage" announced by membooster and in fact the game did freeze up on me with the Windows firewall running.
Does anyone know if this ramping/Hard Faults per second is definitely related to CoD and if its worse with any particular firewall? Or am I barking up the wrong tree?
Also, does anyone have an opinion on the best Firewall to be using with COD, along with whether or not they get the crashes (Not CTD but Game freeze/lockup).
Cheers,
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If you have a stateful hardware firewall in your router (most people have) I see no reason to use more than the built in firewall in Windows 7. Regarding all third party tools like membooster etc I would never use them myself as a long time IT professional. IMO the operative system should be left alone taking care of the memory (that's one of the main purposes of an OS
), and if applications are written as they should, they should take care of their own memory allocation/de-allocation... A third party tool will only mess things up... I never use any such tools and I never have any problems with crashes etc in Windows 7 that are not related to poorly written third party code. The last 10 years I have only been running non intrusive firewalls live AVG, Avast and lately Microsoft Internet Security (free download from Microsoft that is completely adequate if you don't mindlessly download crap from Piratebay etc). Last time I had to re-install my system due to spyware/viruses was in the 90:ies. Occasionally I scan my system with Spybot or Ad-Aware but it really should not be necessary (and I never install their "automatic" background services etc). Make sure you know what all running processes do and minimize applications that are initialized at startup by default and your system should have the best possibilities to work as it's supposed to do...
Then of course there are applications with memory leaks like CloD in multiplayer, but a memory leak is a problem that membooster will not be able to handle anyway... I don't know any IT-professional that uses stuff like that - and absolutely no reg-cleaners etc that will only cause problems. Make sure you don't need them by not messing your system up in the first place instead
So... summary of my advice as a development manager in a high security company... Run a system that is as "lean and mean" as possible with a bare minimum of stuff running that are is not necessary. Regularly check which processes that run on your system with either taskmanager or a better tool like the free tool "Process Explorer" from Microsoft. Do some research on processes you cannot identify and get rid of them if they are not needed. Use the least intrusive antivirus you can find that gets a good scoring at sites like
http://www.av-comparatives.org, and then make sure to use common sense and you will not get viruses or other problems.
Good luck! /Mazex