I have the same problem as that, but even worse. When I check my memory with absolutely no programs open, its at 52 percent. And i have 2GB of ram… So that would mean my Windows Vista computer, when completely idle,(except for task manager) is at more than 1GB of memory.
If only I had a Mac…that could use .exe programs. That would be heaven.
this was a lot of reading. I am trying to figure out what exactly hyper threading is. I read about it in wikipedia after noticing that it was disabled when looking through pc wizard.
I have a hp laptop with amd turion 64 x2. I’m running vista home premium. I went through black vipers list of services to shut down a bunch of things. I’m thinking maybe some stuff I disabled will effect my gaming. I play the sims 2, which takes a lot of memory and processor speed.(I have 2 gigs and my processor speed seems to be Real Frequency :803.7 MHz if I’m even looking at the right thing). My video card isn’t really good for gaming (NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150).
Is there anything that can be done to make this game run a little faster? I shut down as much as I can before playing. Anti virus programs, windows update, network connections, etc. Superfetch is disabled so is readyboost. Also as stated above hyper threading is disabled. I am pretty knowledgable when it comes to computers but all the things I see when viewing pc wizard has me totally confused.
Can anyone give me any advice? It woul be greatly appreceated.
Bonw
The improved caching algorithm generally seems to work fine; but I run a lot of data analysis (nothing huge, but multiple gigs nonetheless), and it seems that vista is more willing to page out programs (even unused portions of actively running processes) to enable it to cache more aggressively - which isn’t very useful to me, since the workload isn’t IO bound, but it is quite annoying when the windows general GUI latency grows unnecessarily to improve disk latency of non-disk limited apps.
So sure, it’s generally a good thing all around, but it’s not exactly brilliant; and it doesn’t seem to notice that certain apps always trigger cache misses anyhow (i.e. why bother caching?) which means it’s not noticeably smarter than any other VM system out there.
Well, after reading close to 4 years of comments I’m a bit lost!
Is there a definitive way to run a game or intensive mem app on vista? I realize with any OS, it needs a little tweaking to pull it off, but this is ridiculous. A big selling point in Vista was Dx10 and what great graphics it would produce. Bite me! I can’t even run a dx8 game without studdering. With my last OS (ME) this game would fly. Now with over 2x more CPU power (AMD64X2), 8x more memory (4gigs), I’m staggering?
I’m not ready to give up on vista just yet, as it has been very stable even with superfetch. Never have I seen a BSOD, and all my other apps run well including, Video editing, Encoding, and the like. But I need a solution to my gaming. My HDD does thrash on start up, have no free memory and I am in agreement with most here that superfetch is a bad idea. But so far, it hasn’t been a problem. Unless it is the reason I can’t play my game.
For those who say… “The only people who need free physical memory is gamers, but as Windows is a multi use system it can’t afford to keep memory…” and “Your video game not running fast enough is not much of a reason to be angry.” I say again Bite Me! I buy a $600 system and can’t play a '04 game? You must be kidding? I know I should have spent $ 1000 for a gaming platform, right? I’m not too surprised Microsoft wasn’t kind to us gamers as they rather us buy their Xbox. But I was playing this game max out on ME! Sorry had to vent.
There were some solutions mentioned, superfetch set to Manual, also Disabled. But what I don’t think what was mentioned, was that it is like step 25 in the vista tweaking process, to run a game smoothly. With like 60 processes, and I don’t know how many Tasks in the scheduler running in the backround. Plus useless bloatware hogging disk space, vista needs some serious cleaning up to game. I have applied most, getting processes down to like 35 while maintining a stable system. But I have noticed even with superfetch disabled, in time, memory still creeps way up in the cache. But no HDD thrashing atleast. Haven’t tested the game yet as I uninstalled being frustrated with it. But since I see some success here in this thread, I’m happy I stumbled upon it. Who would have thought a 4 year old thread could help me today?
There is a drawback, btw, which I just ran into. If all your physical memory is cached (like for me, 0 MB free), you’re incapable of starting any new programs. The operating system will simply stall until it can free more memory which SuperFetch does not like to give. My system performance got a lot better when I disabled the service.