512mb

[DrSinistro]

Am i the only one with 512MB but having the hard drive in panic of always loading stuff ?? everytime there's a sound the hard drive panic and the game freeze.. everytime i pass a door same thing again !

 

[Quartz Botanica]

It sounds to me like you need to defrag. Have you tried that?

 

[DrSinistro]

i'm on a fresh install.. defrag done after the install was complete.. i play CSS without problems

 

[tomo13]

Same for me.
I have 768 ddr and hard drive is going mental all the time(defragging as I write this)
sound seems to be the main culprit.
Any ideas anyone?

 

[Tytarian]

I know 2 things that will help,

1) Drop detail settings,and possibly resolution by a notch.

2) get more ram.

I am 100% certain it is a ram issue as whenever you get stutters and freezes such as when going into a new area,or opening a door,its because you dont have enough ram,that hard drive "thrashing" as its called are textures being loaded from windows virtual memory,which is very slow,rather than from you fast ddr ram.

 

[WabeWalker]

And besides, having more RAM makes for better visuals.

1GB gets you the highest detail textures. 512MB will knock you 1 mip
level down.

You'll probably need more RAM soon enough anyhow.