PC SPECS

Cooler Master 690 Case
Vista Prem 64 Bit
E8400 @3.1
Asus Rampage Formula
Power Cooler Ati 4870
4GB Crucial DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400
Western Digital Caviar SE16 640GB
Corsair 750TX Power Suppy
22" Samsung T220
Random Sony Drive

I was playing Crysis and a red screen came up and said something about memory dumping files...It stays up for like 2 seconds so it doesn't give you time to read the actual error...last time I saw one it was a blue screen that did the same thing...

I downloaded memtest and ran both sticks and I received errors...I will post those screen shots of the 2 errors I got in the first 30 seconds of testing...

Is this bad ram?

Thank you

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Under Resource monitor which is a feature available in Vista...It The memory is going from 0 Hard Faults/Sec up and down and all the way to max which is 129 Hard Faults/Sec... IS that bad?

Get memtest and run every ram module seperately until you find the bad one and rma it.
Is your ram voltage according to spec?

Well I tested both and one of the sticks seems to be the problem...

Right now I have the good 2gb stick in and its only using 571MB of memory with Windows media player on and safari open...and PCu usage is going not going down from 50%...Its staying between 50 and 65%....

What the hell is going on? Why is it when I have 4GB in the memory usage is at like 1.4Gb..but with 2gb its at 550?

Also, Crysis used to only use 1.5GB at all times, and earlier when I was playing with 4GB< it was using 3.8 or so... What is going on


Thanks

Weird I restarted my computer and now it doesn't go over 2% on CPu usage unless i do something...basically its working like normal...I checked under Processes when it was stuck at 50% and there was nothing out of the ordinary.

It might be a background app or even a virus/spyware.

Frustrating...

Man 2gB sucks compared to 4gB... I dont even feel like using my computer until I get the new stick...Also, Crysis can't even run on 2gb...I have no idea how people do it but my memory maxes out on crysis and I can't do anything at all..it just lags everywhere

Well there must have been *some* process suing the CPU...

Anyhow, there are *semi* random events that could lead to this, a scan process starting (av, antispy, windows updates, indexing service for an app). A web page with non-static content will increase usage... its hard to tell, however it *sounds* like some type of scan (which you interrupted by rebooting, and will restart at some point).

Similarly its ahrd to identify why an application is using more or less RAM. Maybe a certain aprt of the game requires more elements to be loaded, perhaps you misidentified what was using the RAM and it was actually shared with another applicaiton, etc.

Its all a bit of a black box, you can do some investigating, but you can never really identify why an applicaiton uses more or less memory.

Anyhow, RMA the RAM.

Cool thanks for the info kamel. Pretty bad on Vistas part but whatever.

On a side note, why can't I run Crysis with 2 GB? Aren't there a lot of people running crysis with 2gb memory? I mean there could be something screwed up somewhere else

I run Crysis on 2GB running at 1280x1024, high settings, no AA.

Of course, i'm on XP, which means 2GB feels like 4GB would on Vista!

I run crysis (v1 - the slow version) on very high @ 1152x864 with a 9600gt and 2gb ram, not really that slow. Its faster than my 8500gt was on low.
Anyway cant see how two gigs are stopping you unless theres alot of background apps running

Well I was running High DX10 No AA with 4GB and getting 40Fps at all times...

Now with 2GB at High DX 10 No AA I can't get like any Fps cause it just skips around all over the place and lags...

I checked the task manager and it was using all of the 2Gb...

With 4GB it uses like 3.6GB or something...

But before, on the same levels and maps and stuff, it was only using 1.5GB all the time, and I have heard others reporting that Crysis only uses like 1.5 to 1.7 GB...

This is weird

Oh and no background programs running...

Vista's the problem then. What a surprise...