Hi i had 128 mbram then I added a 512 SDRAM Stick on a 700mhz machine ,which made it 640, my grapics card is sis 630/730 onboard. i have set graphics aperture to 256mb & vga shared memory to 64mb but still my boot up is slower than before ( 4-5 sec difference) and i am not able to run EACricket 2004 smoothly( laags alot). before when i had 128 ram i use to free up abit off ram and play the game but now its laggging even though i have 640 mb ram installed. the only use off the extra ram is that i can run 2 or more programs at a time without any problem & the programs open faster. could anyone tell me what is going on?.
What speed is the new RAM? Is the ram DDR? Because if the old RAM was a faster speed and the new stuff is slower then if the RAM runs in dual channel then the Faster RAM will run at the slower RAM's speed.
What OS are you running? Have you checked for patches for that game? Have you tried updating your drivers for your chipset (SiS630/730)?
Try running the new stick by itself and also perform a defrag! Matt555 :- He's using a 700Mhz machine, they use PC100/133 SDRAM
ur actual RAM is 576mb cos 64mb is shared..n i'd recommend what pelvis3 said ie to run the 512mb stick alone.n perform a defragmentation of the hard disk..n also when u plug the 512 ram put it in bank 1 slot..hope this helps dude
yea do that n a defrag of the hard disk ALWAYS helps..n probably a re-install of the game can also help..tell me how it goes..maybe u have a problem with RAM..have u got a spare 256mb RAM?u can alwayz use that too..sometimes having extra RAM does slow down ur pc..
Hi I am not sure how important this is but I think I read somewhere that you are not supposed to set the aperture to more than is recomended for your graphics card/chip. If I remeber rightly, it was, for example - for a 128MB card you set it to no more than 64MB etc. I think you might find this page interesting. Hope this helps.
