[Whitelight]

I don`t know much about windows xp but have you scanned for spyware, that will consume memory, i`m running 98 SE and have had this problems a few times over.. It would freeze as yours is doing now.

[Stealth]

yeah... well maybe it IS time you got a little more memory

although that's not fixing the problem, that's just working around it

EDIT:  i'm thinking though, XP's notorious for its excessive RAM usage.  hmmm...

[kasperl]

256MB CAN run XP. i am doing so right now. I can run PSP here fine, though i haven't got any games installed.

[delta_7890]

Originally posted by Liberator
It might be a program error of somekind, but lets exhaust all the other options first, cause PS and Morrow have settings to retain.

Your RAM might be flaking out.

It would be immensly helpful if you could find out your chip temp.

More RAM is ALWAYS better, never underestimate what more RAM will do for you.  You could see as much as a 30% performance boost!

How would I find out what the temperature is.  oo;

[Stealth]

Originally posted by kasperl
256MB CAN run XP. i am doing so right now. I can run PSP here fine, though i haven't got any games installed.

yes 256MB can run XP... shot, 64MB can run it, but with how many problems?  Personally now that he's upped the page file size in the virtual memory, he's right now running the exact same amount of memory as i am, with the exact same paging file size.  yet my computer runs fine, and sometimes i have photoshop open, with multiple other programs.  i really don't understand :-/

delta, have you tried Windows Update yet?

[Deathstorm V2]

I've got XP Pro running on 384 MB DDR, 590MB VM on each HDD.  Runs like a dream until FRED2_OPEN crashes for any reason, when my CPU usage hits the ceiling and my PF usage jumps from 60MB to over 1000MB.

My only question for Delta is: have you backed up critical files?  If so, you could try my typical solution: format your OS drive and reinstall the OS.  It's tedious and nasty, but it kills any software bugs.  (Not too subtle, but I can't be bothered with subtle when it comes to computers)

Oh, on the issue of XP, how the bloody hell do you turn CD-ROM autorun / auto insert off on XP Pro?  I've been trying for three months now, and "Windows Help" is a contradiction in terms.

[delta_7890]

Originally posted by Stealth


yes 256MB can run XP... shot, 64MB can run it, but with how many problems?  Personally now that he's upped the page file size in the virtual memory, he's right now running the exact same amount of memory as i am, with the exact same paging file size.  yet my computer runs fine, and sometimes i have photoshop open, with multiple other programs.  i really don't understand :-/

delta, have you tried Windows Update yet?

Yep, I've done everything as far as Windows Update goes.  All of the security patches and all of that stuff.  This is really beginning to aggitate me..

EDIT: Rather, I'd done Windows update when the problem was first occuring, and that didn't help.  I could try to do so again now to see if that helps any.

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by delta_7890


Yes.  It will 'freeze', and then go back to running normally after a few minutes or so.  My problem is that this happens constantly.  Sometimes this freezing process will occur repeatedly.  I just upped my virtual memory to 1000mb, so we'll see how this goes.

I sort of have the same problem, but with Windows 2000 (on my machine at work) and it only freezes for a good number of seconds as opposed to minutes. 'Twas a fresh install of W2K, too. I haven't figured out the problem yet.

[delta_7890]

Originally posted by Sandwich


I sort of have the same problem, but with Windows 2000 (on my machine at work) and it only freezes for a good number of seconds as opposed to minutes. 'Twas a fresh install of W2K, too. I haven't figured out the problem yet.

Mine's usually just seconds, but there have been times where it's spanned into minutes.

[Sandwich]

It's most likely a CPU-greedy process running in the BG that is written badly and completely ties up the computer when it's active. A service or some such.