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penji   04-09-2008 at 07:52:35 AM


First post woot !!!

Just Upgraded from XP Pro to Vista Home Premium and now that i have games like crysis which previously ran smoothly now are slow, i assume this is because i dont have enough ram or its because i have now enabled the option on my mobo to steal my ram

any ideas ?

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septic   04-09-2008 at 08:59:48 AM
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From my experience with Crysis, I've found that DX10 mode runs a little slower than DX9 mode. Under Vista, it uses the DX10 renderer to run the game, assuming that the hardware is compliant (which yours is).

In the games explorer, right click on Crysis and choose the DX9 option, see if that makes any difference (it should).

What other games did you find are running slower?

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Kraynor   04-09-2008 at 11:54:38 AM
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Vista has never been as efficient at gaming as XP is, that's just the way it is I'm afraid. But, with Vista being the little memory hog it is, doubling your RAM wouldn't hurt at all. I know I noticed quite a nice speed up when I quadded my ram from 2gb to 8gb.

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JonnyRock   04-09-2008 at 01:33:06 PM
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Kraynor wrote :

Vista has never been as efficient at gaming as XP is, that's just the way it is I'm afraid. But, with Vista being the little memory hog it is, doubling your RAM wouldn't hurt at all. I know I noticed quite a nice speed up when I quadded my ram from 2gb to 8gb.




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Kraynor   04-09-2008 at 01:48:37 PM
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Wouldn't be much point to 8gb ram if I wasn't now, would there ;)
Vista Ultimate x64 :)

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penji   04-09-2008 at 02:38:29 PM
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I tried running crysis on DirectX9 on Vista and that seemed to make no difference to the perfomance, i guess that i just dont have enough ram so i guess i just need to get more ram

Wanted to add another 4GB of Ram to my System but ive only got two more Ram slots left and i cant seem to find any ram with the same specs as i have now in 2GB sticks, 4GB should be pletty if i just get more of the same RAM or not ???

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Scotteq   04-09-2008 at 03:00:17 PM
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4 will be plenty.

But be advised that running 4 DIMMS can take a little extra tweaking.


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Kraynor   04-09-2008 at 03:19:45 PM
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Unless you've got a 64-bit installation of Vista, 8gb wouldn't do you any good since it wouldn't be able to address it. My system isn't primerally for gaming anyway, and if it were I'd admit that 8gb is overkill. 4gb would be absolutely fine.

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penji   04-09-2008 at 03:29:58 PM
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Ive Got a 64Bit Version of Vista so adressing RAM wont be an issue thanks for all the help and advice guys ill order my extra 2GB of Ram tommorrow, lol and maybe another 8800 GTS while im at it

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