Win2k one helluva memory hog?

[codybear]

hey there Duckman..I have 512mb and my swap set at 750 and have no such problems..yes it likes memory

[plucky duck]

*mumbling* stupid Windows...of the 256mb ram, only 64 of em are mine http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/frown.gif

I have virtual memory set to 600, which is like almost 10x my mem....doh! That aint good.

Now if only somebody could RAM me with their car I'd appreciate it http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif

BTW CODY, I got your modem sent back your way on Friday. Sorry to have wasted your time and effort for a good cause. Thx.

Plucky
OR as Cody calls me - The Duckman http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[plucky duck]

I have 256mb PC133 RAM in the box.

Had played with the various sizes with regards to virtual memory and AGP texture memory, but whenever I try to load NFS Porsche or N64 UltraHle emulation Win2k goes and gives my hard drive a good grinding http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/frown.gif

Is 256megs not good enough or is there a setting I should know about?

I can't even finish loading either programs without Win2K popping me a message telling me virtual memory is set too small. Argh.
*mumbling*

Please give the duck a hand, thx.
Plucky

[cyclone2]

I have not used 2000 much for games but one thing I found with a demo of No One Lives Forever was with ME I could run 1064x768 but 2k the best I could do to maintain same framerates was 640x480 http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/frown.gif
Looks like I could use an extra 64 megs!
i have 128
As for yours what is your swap file set for and on what partition is it on?

[NDC]

Yeah, Win2K seems to load as much of the system files into RAM to give it a speed boost. Memory hog or not, I think the speed on Win2K just blows the socks of Win9X with the same system configuration and very stable. But strangely, I noticed that NT4 was quicker in Photoshop tasking and other graphic applications than Win2K. Anyone know why?