[QUOTE="michael098"]From what you guys are saying it sounds like its my ram. Is having 1gig really not enough for your average game now? Iv only just got my graphics card and i got company of heroes with it. im playing it on max at 1024X768, it runs at an average of about 50-60fps but when alot of action is on screen it can slow down to 40 or even 30fps at times, surly this is not because of my graphics card, could it be my ram (1gig)_Margulis_
1GB of RAM hasn't been enough for gaming since 2004 for XP or Vista and if your running Vista I'd get at least 3gb just to get around the preloading problem or if you have XP at least 2gb (or for company of heroes 2.5gb since that game uses a lot of memory).
With 1gb of RAM your computer is having to swap a lot of files off the harddrive, especially in CoH at Max since that game uses up more memory than the average game.
Really? that explains everything then, i knew 1gig was not enough but i didn't realise how much more i really needed, that's fine though, ram is so cheap now i can easily get another 1 or 2 gigs, thanks for the help.
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