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Post Date: 2009-05-03
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    Posted: 03 May 2009 at 10:41pm
I have 4g of DDR2 memory. Is it normal for a game to use up to 98%? When I logon it starts and 55 and slowly gets to about 98 then back to 70-80%. Do I need buy more Ram for this game? Or is there something else I can do?
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you need more ram when your system starts giving you trouble, other then that don't worry about it. what os are you using?

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The system isn't giving me trouble just surprised that Conan uses so much memory.  I go to the Task Manager and it just keeps getting bigger and bigger as I keep playinig. 

I am using Vista Home Edition 64bit 4GB memory *Corsair*
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forget about watching the mem usage in task manager in vista, superprefect is loading resources in the memory ahead of time, it guesses what you are going to be loading next so its ready, thus your mem usage is not what you are actually using, its what vista thinks you gonna use.

we can disable superprefect if you like, I did on mine, if you do so you will see the ram usage drop, but there is no need to disable it, its a matter of preference

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Posts: 78 		  Quote Bonoharvey Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 04 May 2009 at 7:11pm
yes I would like to know how to disable it please. Are there any cons to disabling the superprefect? 
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no there are none

not really, its suppose to help by loading resources ahead of time but if you can tell the difference you can always enable it, tho I don't know anybody that has.


Follow these steps:


1. Click the Start orb and type REGEDIT in the Start Search area.

2. Open the Registry Editor.

3. Click the plus sign next to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
then SYSTEM
then CurrentControlSet
then Control
then Session Manager
then MemoryManagement
then click PrefetchParameters

4. On the right side, double-click on EnableSuperfetch

5. Give it one of the following values:

0 to disable Superfetch
1 to enable prefetching when program is launched
2 to enable boot prefetching
3 to enable prefectching of everything

Click OK.

6. Close the Registry Editor.

now if there are particular apps or games you like to enable superprefetch for, you can make a shortcut to that app/game and add this switch
/prefetch:1
to the end of that app/game's shortcut.

Edited by DST4ME - 04 May 2009 at 8:33pm

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Posts: 78 		  Quote Bonoharvey Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 04 May 2009 at 10:54pm
Thanks DST. It's funny I thought I had done that before but obviously didn't. Thanks for again for your help 
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Posts: 36758 		  Quote DST4ME Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 05 May 2009 at 1:44am
My pleasure, save those steps on your PC in a txt file and then when ever you want to go enable you can just repeat and you have what each value is, good luck

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