Vista memory problems

[Hooker]

Heya, as you can see in the attached picture, there's something really strange with the way it handles the available memory.

There's 4GB installed, but if you look at the "Physical Memory (MB)" field in the Task Manager you see that it says that there's only 75 MB left. In that same TM you see that there should be more available. Games don't really suffer from it, but any type of movie playing from WMP will give you the "out of memory" error.

This is a clean Vista install (did it not more than 12 hours ago) And installed only drivers, Office, basic media codecs (divx, xvid, AC3), AVG & Daemon tools.

I figured there was something wrong with my Vista install (and thus formatted and reinstalled) but the problem remains. I wonder if someone else may have had the same thing, and how they were able to fix this. It's quite annoying!

The main hardware:
QX6700 @ 310*11
Corsair 6400C4D @ 4:4:4:12 (2:3)
Intel D975XBX2 (bios 2770)
eVGA 8800GTX (stock - 163.11)
Auzentech X-Meridian (optical out DTS)

[zanzabar]

vista use about 1/3 of your free memory to precash applications that u frequently use, and it removes it from the ram once u need to memory for a desktop app or when u enter a 3d application (like a game)

[Nick04263]

vista use about 1/3 of your free memory to precash applications that u frequently use, and it removes it from the ram once u need to memory for a desktop app or when u enter a 3d application (like a game)

Exactly. Microsoft tried to make the software react to your habits and pretend it knows you better than you do.

Unfortunately Vista is a horrible OS and when you upgrade you take a performance hit. You can disable a lot of the services and cut out some of that bloat-ware.

[zanzabar]

its not that bad i get about a 5% hit on fps with

a8v delux
3500 clawhamer at .6ghz
2gb ran 400mhz 3-3-3-8
sba2 zs plat pro
maxtor 120 gb sata150 x2 on promise controller ion raid 0+2

[Speederlander]

Exactly. Microsoft tried to make the software react to your habits and pretend it knows you better than you do.

Unfortunately Vista is a horrible OS and when you upgrade you take a performance hit. You can disable a lot of the services and cut out some of that bloat-ware.

blah blah blah.

The people that actually run it and have used it extensively almost universally don't hold that opinion.

[Hooker]

Ok, I understand that. But why is it crippling the way WMP is working though?!

[Nick04263]

blah blah blah.

The people that actually run it and have used it extensively almost universally don't hold that opinion.

I repair computers for a living and then do a lot of side work to help acquisition people to new Operating Systems. I use it, I run it extensively, and yet I still have a very low opinion of it. Go figure.

Ok, I understand that. But why is it crippling the way WMP is working though?!

WMP has shown extensive issues when even running from a clean installation. From what you say is installed, I recommend uninstalling the codecs and if that fails, disable UAC.

Also, I know you didn't include it in the listed installed programs but make sure Nero is no where near your computer application list.

[TouGe]

Heya, as you can see in the attached picture, there's something really strange with the way it handles the available memory.

There's 4GB installed, but if you look at the "Physical Memory (MB)" field in the Task Manager you see that it says that there's only 75 MB left. In that same TM you see that there should be more available. Games don't really suffer from it, but any type of movie playing from WMP will give you the "out of memory" error.

This is a clean Vista install (did it not more than 12 hours ago) And installed only drivers, Office, basic media codecs (divx, xvid, AC3), AVG & Daemon tools.

I figured there was something wrong with my Vista install (and thus formatted and reinstalled) but the problem remains. I wonder if someone else may have had the same thing, and how they were able to fix this. It's quite annoying!

The main hardware:
QX6700 @ 310*11
Corsair 6400C4D @ 4:4:4:12 (2:3)
Intel D975XBX2 (bios 2770)
eVGA 8800GTX (stock - 163.11)
Auzentech X-Meridian (optical out DTS)


There's nothing wrong with your installation. Mine shows the same thing in regards to free physical memory and my system runs just fine. This is just the way Vista manages memory. I wouldn't worry about it.

[Speederlander]

I repair computers for a living and then do a lot of side work to help acquisition people to new Operating Systems. I use it, I run it extensively, and yet I still have a very low opinion of it. Go figure.

:shrug: Welcome to the minority?