Originally posted by: xiaobao12
so when the it starts hitting the pagefile, is that when the performance just crashes?
i still can't figure out why your limit if 4 times more than mine....maybe its my stupid 5200?
honestly, i really didn't notice it and when i viewed it, i was amazed that it was 1.4GB, almost to the point of disbelief, which is the highest i have ever seen it and also why i did a scree print. but, like i said earlier i am contributing this to the speed of the scsi hdd. ymmv depending on your hdd.
some time ago i did a little testing as to how much a difference a fast system/game/pagefile drive makes. at that time i was playing bf1942. i pulled out one stick or ram so i only had 512MB of ram an knew that i would usually hit ~700-800MB, so i knew i would use the pagefile. with the scsi hdd in, you couldn't even tell and the machine felt the same (this was not a scientific test, but just a "seat of the pants" test), but when i put everything on a ibm 60GB(which is a very fast 7200rpm 8MB cache hdd), the difference was night and day.
this 1.4GB amount seems to be an oddity as it has only happend the one time and like i said, if it wasn't on my machine i would be very skeptical if somebody told me that bf2 used 1.4GB of ram @ 1280x960 4AA. it does seem like the norm is <1.2GB.
why your 5200 only uses a max of ~520MB is beyond me...what are your settings?