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Whenever I run a high-memory-usage fullscreen app (e.g. Civ4) and alt-tab out, Firefox and a lot of other programs have trouble scrolling. I scroll down and it visibly redraws the page from the top down - it takes about a second or two for each notch on the scroll wheel. I have 2 GB of memory, so that should not be a problem. What causes this?
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f.e. I'm running Warlords, FF and iTunes right now, the Task Manager says I have a PF of 769 MB (I assume this refers to total memory footprint rather than the file on disk, since 769 looks right for the sum of all the numbers in the "mem usage" column, and as above I have 2 GB RAM), and I'm encountering the problem. -
PF (page file) usage is how much of your swap file is being used.Originally posted by Kuciwalker
f.e. I'm running Warlords, FF and iTunes right now, the Task Manager says I have a PF of 769 MB (I assume this refers to total memory footprint rather than the file on disk, since 769 looks right for the sum of all the numbers in the "mem usage" column, and as above I have 2 GB RAM), and I'm encountering the problem.
How long after after alt-tabbing does the scroll issues dioes FF begin to scroll normally? Also, is iTunes stuttering at all?
What I suspect is happening is your system is doing a LOT of paging and this consumes CPU resources.
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Have you done a spy-ware scan yet?There's no game in The Sims. It's not a game. It's like watching a tank of goldfishes and feed them occasionally. - Urban RangerComment
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Why would Windows be using the hard drive when I've got twice the RAM necessary to hold everything? Especially since 769 MB would mean it's not using the RAM at all and using the hard drive for everything.Comment
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Because it can.Originally posted by Kuciwalker
Why the hell would Windows be using the hard drive when I've got twice the RAM necessary to hold everything? Especially since 769 MB would mean it's not using the RAM at all and using the hard drive for everything.There's no game in The Sims. It's not a game. It's like watching a tank of goldfishes and feed them occasionally. - Urban RangerComment
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I just turned the page file off, so I'm going to reboot and test your proposition...Comment
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What version of firefox are you using ? The 1.5.x doesn't exactly behaves sane.With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
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Originally posted by Kuciwalker
I just turned the page file off, so I'm going to reboot and test your proposition...
There's no game in The Sims. It's not a game. It's like watching a tank of goldfishes and feed them occasionally. - Urban RangerComment
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Again, with 2 GB RAM I shouldn't need a pagefile. Even Oblivion rarely runs over half a gig.
What version of firefox are you using ? The 1.5.x doesn't exactly behaves sane.
It's not that, since FF is only consuming ~49 MB after I rebooted. And since I've never seen it go above about 200 MB, it also isn't the culprit.
So, after rebooting, the problem still occurs once I launch Warlords. Task Manager reports PF as 586 MB, so I think it's referring to the total memory footprint rather than the size of the page file on the HD (since that's off).Comment
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Could it be something related to DirectX? I think this never occured while running KOTOR (that had its own slew of problems running in the background), which IIRC runs on OpenGL.Comment
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zomfg windows suckzComment
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Can I play Warlords on a Mac?
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Technically, yes. You just have to run shoddy software to do so.
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Happy?Originally posted by Kuciwalker
Can I play Warlordson a Macunder OS X?
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Also, if I scroll down page too fast the computer sometimes beeps.Comment
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