[THFS]

Today I bought an extra stick of 256MB PC3200 RAM, and installed it with no errors. System performance is up, but strangely enough it has caused my performance in Counter-Strike to decrease.
Specs:

AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton
512MB PC3200 DDR @ PC2700
nVidia GeForce4 MX440
300 Watt PSU
Windows XP Professional SP1

When I had 256MB RAM I could run CS at 60FPS constant, but now I'm getting 20-60FPS. I'm also getting problems with virtual memory and the paging file.

One thing I noted is that at one point my paging file usage was up at 500MB but I still had 300MB of RAM still available. I'm thinking it may be a problem with my virtual memory settings. What are the optimum settings for 512MB RAM?

Thanks.

 

[THFS]

It was the drivers, the framerate problem is solved. But still, I would like to know what the best virtual memory settings are for 512MB RAM.

 

[MFDnNC]

You will get many different opinions on this, Personally and professionally I set it to 2x physical memory for min AND max

 

[WhitPhil]

Paging file usage is not the thing to be concerned with, it is the paging rate (that is, how much activity is there moving areas to/from ram).

With 300Mbs available, this rate should be next to zero.

So, I would think the problem must be elsewhere.

Hopefully, someone will step in with some suggestions as to how to improve your framerate.