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[Ollie_H]

This was a question that occured to me, is it possible to use a memory stick as extra ram? At the moment it runs really slowly and only has half a star performance. I am on a laptop with 3GB of Ram I believe.

Would adding more ram add to the performance or is it down to some other part of the laptop?

 

[Chewie]

There is a way that uses it as RAM but because it is over USB it isn't as fast. It's called turboboost iirc. I'm not sure how effective it is though.

What do you mean half a star performance? What OS are you on? And what are your other specs? Normally 3GB should be plenty for a laptop.

 

[Abhas]

It's called Readyboost, but it's not really effective, especially considering you have that much ram.

 

[Ollie_H]

This is what I mean. I want to make it so that it runs faster. Oh, apparently I have 4GB of ram according to system properties. Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 32bit. AMD Turion (tm) X2 Dual-Core 2.20 Ghz Processor.

 

[Chewie]

Yea your ram should be fine. What's the screenshot from? I've never seen anything like that before.

And what graphics card do you have?

 

[Ollie_H]

It's from Football Manager 2011, a game, I want it to run faster . Graphics card is ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4530 Series, I think.

 

[Chewie]

huh. Weird. I wouldn't think that Football Manager would require too much grunt. And though your graphics card is one of the lower ones it should run it fine. (I couldn't find it in the graphics card hierarchy at Tom's Hardware but from notebook check it's one of the lower end ones)

 

[Ollie_H]

PC System Requirements

OS: Windows XP/Vista/W7
Processor: XP : 1.4GHz or Faster, Vista/W7 : 2.0GHz or Faster
Memory: XP : 512MB RAM, Vista/W7 : 1.0GB RAM
Graphics: 128MB Supported Chipsets - Nvidia FX 5900 Ultra or greater; ATI Radeon 9800 or greater; Intel 82915G/82910GL or greater. Earlier cards may only display 2D Match Viewer Mode and are not supported
DirectX?: Version 9.0c (included)
Hard Drive: 2GB
Sound: DirectX 9.0c compatible​

My Specs

OS: Vista HP SP1 32 Bit
Processor: XP : AMD Turion(tm) X2 Dual-Core Mobile RM-75 (2 CPUs), ~2.2GHz
Memory: 3068MB RAM
Graphics: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4530 Series
DirectX?: DirectX 10
Hard Drive: 287 GB​

Where am I going wrong?

 

[Chewie]

I have no idea. What ratings does the Windows Experience Index give you?

Located at:
Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Performance Information and Tools

You'll probably want one of the real experts to come along and help

 

[Ollie_H]

Processor: 4.9
Memory (RAM): 5.9
Graphics: 4.6
Gaming Graphics: 5.1
Primary HD: 5.3

 

[Ollie_H]

Another question, if I wanted to go about adding some ram, I did scan on my laptop and it came up with these;

Maximum Memory Capacity: 4194304 MB
Currently Installed Memory: 4096 MB

Is the Maximum Memory Capacity the amount of RAM I can get? Or does that include something else?

 

[Chewie]

I'm pretty sure you can't install 4000GB of ram

I'm not sure what that is. Most laptops have a limit on how much ram they can handle because of the motherboard. And at any rate you have a 32bit OS so it can't use more than 3.5-4GB of ram anyway.

 

[Abhas]

That's the page-file.
What's the problem ollie?

 

[Ollie_H]

This was a question that occured to me, is it possible to use a memory stick as extra ram? At the moment Football Manager runs really slowly and only has half a star performance. I am on a laptop with 3GB of Ram I believe.

Would adding more ram add to the performance or is it down to some other part of the laptop?

This is the problem Abhas.

 

[Abhas]

RAM Is definitely not a problem unless you've got a faulty stick, which would have given you numerous Blue-screen errors.

Is Football Manager even graphics intensive? Is it a problem with only FM or other things are slow as well?