WoW Question

shadowpark · 02-17-2007

So im trying to install World of Warcraft and it said I didnt have enough RAM. The min. requirement is 512 MB of it. I un-installed Civ. IV and the Sims 2, Civ. 4 is also 512 MB and Sims 2 is 256 MB. It still says this.Shouldn't this have freed up enough space. What am I doing wrong?

Vegeta · 02-17-2007

Did you go to control panel and safely uninstall program?

It might not be completely off... (the games u uninstalled)

shadowpark · 02-17-2007

Yea, I did.

Vegeta · 02-17-2007

Idk then... sorry

Dark Drakan · 02-17-2007

Thats not RAM you are freeing up thats Hard Drive space. If you havent got enough RAM to run a game you need to buy some more.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_access_memory

shadowpark · 02-17-2007

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Originally Posted by Dark Drakan

Thats not RAM you are freeing up thats Hard Drive space. If you havent got enough RAM to run a game you need to buy some more.

Oh.. I guess I figured I had enough RAM cuz I had a lot of other games that needed the same amount of RAM that worked fine (eg. Civ. 4), and I un-installed them. So, that didnt help?

Dark Drakan · 02-17-2007

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Originally Posted by shadowpark

Oh.. I guess I figured I had enough RAM cuz I had a lot of other games that needed the same amount of RAM that worked fine (eg. Civ. 4), and I un-installed them. So, that didnt help?

No uninstalling them wouldnt have freed up RAM, only way RAM is used is if you say 'run' 2 programs at once so make sure NOTHING else is running when you try and play it and you make sure there are no unneeded background tasks running. You made sure all your other specs match up?

Devalion · 02-18-2007

Always have more than the minimum amount of RAM for a game or application. Especially online games, because the necessary RAM can spike up to 700+, thereby crashing the application. Honestly, a gigabyte of RAM is pretty cheap these days, maybe 70-90 bucks at Staples/BestBuy/Newegg.

Dark Drakan · 02-18-2007

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Originally Posted by Devalion

Always have more than the minimum amount of RAM for a game or application. Especially online games, because the necessary RAM can spike up to 700+, thereby crashing the application. Honestly, a gigabyte of RAM is pretty cheap these days, maybe 70-90 bucks at Staples/BestBuy/Newegg.

Yeah thats true, online games the RAM usage can spike at any moment and cant predict by how much.

shadowpark · 02-18-2007

thanks guys, i guess I'll just buy some more RAM

Dark Drakan · 02-18-2007

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Originally Posted by shadowpark

thanks guys, i guess I'll just buy some more RAM

Its fairly cheap and try to ask someone who knows about it so you can make sure you get the best use out of it.

Albion Knight · 02-18-2007

There are also a lot of things that can chew up ram try checking task manager to see what is using ram

Vegeta · 02-18-2007

where can you buy RAM at? my computer is so slow...

Dark Drakan · 02-18-2007

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Originally Posted by Vegeta

where can you buy RAM at? my computer is so slow...

Any computer store really, if it sells PC Parts chances are they will sell RAM.

Vegeta · 02-18-2007

Thanks rep+