retired_carrielee

yet everytime I go to start up a game of FM08 it quits telling me I have run out of memory before I even get to load up a game?

retired_soccer freak

They probably mean your RAM.

retired_acivin

Are you sure its not the virtual memory?
Is there other stuff that you are running in the background?

retired_sandyv

You are confusing HD space with RAM.

retired_carrielee

Right how do I amend this then? What do I need to do to free up some RAM, I've only recently nuked my laptop so there should be loads of space.

retired_whatever

Its ur amount of RAM, not the amount of free space on your HD......

Try switching off every background running program, might help... otherwise, get more RAM.

retired_soccer freak

Check your RAM for the start.

Next, end all those programs that start up automatically when you turn on your computer.

Finally, you try assigning more virtual memory at the CP.

Victoriaz

If you click Start then right-click "My Computer" and do Properties it should tell you how much RAM is available total.

retired_carrielee

480MB of RAM. I'll try getting rid of anything thats being used and have a fiddle with the virtual memory do I need to decrease this somewhere?

Victoriaz

Sorry for the double post.

I should have worded that better. I mean it'll show you the amount of total RAM your computer has.

You could also try pressing

Ctrl
Alt
Del

at the same time which will show you what's running and how much RAM it's taking up. You may want to close your Internet browsers as some of them can turn into memory pigs if you have a large number of tabs/windows open (I went to use my wife's computer once and firefox was eating something like 300 Megs of RAM... mind you she had 200+ tabs open). :eek: