Ram Advice?

[Tim1981]

Hi, I have recently reinstalled Cliffs Of Dover and have been enjoying playing.I have a display running on my G15 keyboard which monitors my cpu and Ram usage.

I noticed some performance issues while on the ATAG server this evening whilst there was 60 odd players on.My ram was running at 95% and everything started to slow down.This is the first performance problem I have had since changing my graphic settings to Medium.

I am running a Q8400 overclocked to 3.2ghz with 4 gig (2 sticks) of matched Mushkin Ram on an old Asus P5K motherboard with Windows 7 64bit Pro.

I have some 1 gig GEIL sticks of ram and was wondering if it is worth adding another gig of unmatched ram to my setup.I'm not sure whether this would help reduce the ram load?

Any help, much appreciated.

[madrebel]

typically no running mismatched sticks is a recipe for problems. it can be done but isn't recommended by anyone.

CoD is a 32 bit app so it will never address more than 2GB of ram at any given time (actually the limit is about 1.7GB for 32bit threads). as long as you have 2GB of available memory then adding more won't do anything.

i wouldnt bother upgrading to different ram either as ddr2 is stupid expensive compared to ddr3. you can get 8GBs of CL7 ddr3 for like $45. if i were you I would wait for Sandy Bridge E and upgrade my whole setup then.

[ATAG_Bliss]

Hi Tim,

Like Rudelmann said, there's a memory leak that will eventually cause a crash for everyone.

If you're running Win7 x64, having more than 4 gigs will help you out considering the amount that other programs and your OS is using. I believe the OS and some other programs without the game will be pushing 1.5 to 2 gigs by itself. (Win7/steam/trackir/ts3 etc.)

That being said, I have some extra ddr2 laying around. If you pick up the shipping (assuming you're in the US), I'll gladly send you it (2x2gig ddr2 sticks).

[r0bc]

Most LGA775 motherboards performed worst with 8GB then with 4GB.
Personally wouldn't even bother.

[Tim1981]

Thanks for all the advice.

I have sent a PM to you Bliss.

[klem]

Well its pretty definite. I tried Rizone's memboost.exe hoping it would reclaim discarded memory but it didn't help.

I'm attaching screenshots of memboost showing a gradual eating of my memory. Memboost isn't able to do anything about it so its not redundant/discarded/fouled up memory but memory the game is holding onto. It seems it may be collecting data and holding it instead of dropping it when no longer required.

It seems to fill my memory over a period of 1.5 to 2 hours - I have 6Gb RAM - which is about right from experience. I thought I wasn't getting it on the JG27 server but that may be because I was only in it long enough to ride near the limit but didn't know without memboost to whisper in my ear. I tend to be on the ATAG server longer and that has until recently had more AI flying around. I have had complete lockups there on a few occasions.

The attached shows what it was like on the JG27 server tonight after I began to get memory warnings (memboost is set to warn me if >80% memory used). It never actually filled up completely because I left the server.

Then I restarted the game and went into the ATAG server and took screenies at about 20 and 30 minutes which co-incided with some action. You can see on the 20 and 30 minute screenies a small but steady increase in memory usage eventually adding ~0.8Gb to my memory load. All for taking off from Hawkinge, roaming around halfway to Manston then going halfway across the channel where I found a couple of He111s, then a coople more Hurricanes then a 109.

Hope they get it fixed soon!