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will more ram help me?
Name: brfrank024 Date: March 12, 2004 at 22:50:35 Pacific OS: xp home CPU/Ram: p4/386
Comment:
I'm not a computer guy and just recently started playing medal of honor. I have a geforce fx 5200, 384 mb ram, and 1.8 ghz processor but the game is still a little choppy while i play. Will increasing the ram (thinking bout adding another 384) help improve the level of play? If not, have any other suggestions? Thanks
Name: viewmaster Date: March 12, 2004 at 23:29:21 Pacific
Reply:
It is probabley your video card...ram looks fine to me
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Response Number 2
Name: jonathan51515 Date: March 13, 2004 at 03:57:11 Pacific
Reply:
Could just drop the specs on the game.....save money
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Response Number 3
Name: Carsomyr Date: March 14, 2004 at 10:04:01 Pacific
Reply:
I see that you're using XP Home... yes, adding some more RAM will give that game and other modern games some breathing room. XP is a RAM hog, and ideally you'll want 512 MB or more. When I upgraded the RAM in my XP laptop from 256 to 512, there was quite a difference in my games' performance.
To get the best performance out of your games, you should do the following:
-Update your video, sound card and motherboard chipset drivers -Update DirectX -Close all running background programs while playing -Run Scandisk and Defrag regularly -Reduce/turn off in-game graphics and sound options if gameplay is choppy with higher settings
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