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My pc has 512megs of ram, but when I do a system check it comes up as 502meg, and then tells me that only 235meg of this is free? I have done this check at other times and it came up as about 300meg. I have recently put maya training onto my pc and its fine at the start but after a while it slows right down, then last night a warning box flashed up saying that windows didnt have enough memory to run and was increasing vitual memory to compensate. Is that normal? Putting more memory in would help I know, but cash is tight at the moment so could only get 256meg. How much would this help. Oh I have shared graphics as well, which dosent help. sorry to go!
Miserableman wrote:
> I wouldn't worry about it. Something like Maya is bound to be an
> enormous memory hog.
I'm surprised he's managing to run Maya on just 512 without a sever drop in performance.
> I wouldn't worry about it. Something like Maya is bound to be an
> enormous memory hog.
I'm surprised he's managing to run Maya on just 512 without a sever drop in performance.
2G2 wrote:
> My pc has 512megs of ram, but when I do a system check it comes up as
> 502meg
Normally this would be an onboard graphics card which shares the systems memory, you will probably be able to confirm this in the BIOS check whether it is set to use 10 Megs of your systems memory.
> My pc has 512megs of ram, but when I do a system check it comes up as
> 502meg
Normally this would be an onboard graphics card which shares the systems memory, you will probably be able to confirm this in the BIOS check whether it is set to use 10 Megs of your systems memory.
I wouldn't worry about it. Something like Maya is bound to be an enormous memory hog.
What CPU you got?
It's also worth digging out ad-aware from Google - www.lavasoft.org I think - and scanning your PC for spyware.
Windows takes up lots of memory when running. Other things do too. It might look like nothing else is running but that is rarely true. In my system tray for instance, even when nothing else shows on the desktop or task bar, I still have the ATI control panel, MSN messenger, AVG anti-virus, InCD, TightVNC and Quicktime. In other words, lots of memory gets taken up. So try and close the irrelevant things.
But, it sounds like you are still going to run out of real memory, even if you do that. So either upgrade, or turn to the virtual memory. This is memory on the hard disk, so you need free disk space just during use, nothing actually gets saved.
To set the size of it, go to control panel > system > advanced > settings > advanced. Make sure you either have a large number entered, or better yet, just tick the system managed size, which would allow Windows to use what it needs. Virtual memory however is much much slower than real memory, but running slowly is better than not running.
Hope that helps.
But, it sounds like you are still going to run out of real memory, even if you do that. So either upgrade, or turn to the virtual memory. This is memory on the hard disk, so you need free disk space just during use, nothing actually gets saved.
To set the size of it, go to control panel > system > advanced > settings > advanced. Make sure you either have a large number entered, or better yet, just tick the system managed size, which would allow Windows to use what it needs. Virtual memory however is much much slower than real memory, but running slowly is better than not running.
Hope that helps.
Hmmm. That is the only thing that is running and you you still manage to use up so much memory... Strange.
I'm stumped. But it doesn't take alot to do that.
I'm stumped. But it doesn't take alot to do that.
When Im using maya, I make sure that nothing else is running. Why are pc so confusing? Are macs betting then pc? Would a mac be better for running maya? Thanks I'll try that for a start.
Try not having so many programs running. Go start, run and type msnconfig, then go on the startup tab and take off the ticks for programs you don't use (may take a while figuring out what programs are which though, so only take the tick off when you're sure what it is).
Uhm. Yeah. I'm crap with computers so ignore me if someone comes up with something better (most likely).
Uhm. Yeah. I'm crap with computers so ignore me if someone comes up with something better (most likely).
My pc has 512megs of ram, but when I do a system check it comes up as 502meg, and then tells me that only 235meg of this is free? I have done this check at other times and it came up as about 300meg. I have recently put maya training onto my pc and its fine at the start but after a while it slows right down, then last night a warning box flashed up saying that windows didnt have enough memory to run and was increasing vitual memory to compensate. Is that normal? Putting more memory in would help I know, but cash is tight at the moment so could only get 256meg. How much would this help. Oh I have shared graphics as well, which dosent help. sorry to go!