thats because older games relied on the page file then called the swap file for memory access, as the common factor from those days was about 24-32mb of system memory and just wasn't enough. The issue where we didnt need it didnt start to vanish till 4gb of ram was affordable, though with games and apps comming out today along with more feature rich programs 4gb is no longer recomended to do it with and soon 8gb won't either. But that error can be fixed if you open the game in a complier and adjust the code so it doesnt look for a swap file
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thats because older games relied on the page file then called the swap file for memory access, as the common factor from those days was about 24-32mb of system memory and just wasn't enough. The issue where we didnt need it didnt start to vanish till 4gb of ram was affordable, though with games and apps comming out today along with more feature rich programs 4gb is no longer recomended to do it with and soon 8gb won't either. But that error can be fixed if you open the game in a complier and adjust the code so it doesnt look for a swap file
aimeeandbeatles
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Memory management in NT-based systems is different, IIRC.
the basic memory subsystem is very similar actully, the diffrence isnt in the 32bit code, the diffrence is the lack of 16bit code lol. Windows 9x actully ran with a Dos and 32bit memory code, it would start the system in 16bit and the windows would take over from dos and start the 32bit memory controls while the dos are also running. But Windows 95 and Windows 98 actully have sevral parts incommon with NT, as those parts where borrowed from NT 3.1 which predats Windows 95, alot of the 32bit code in Windows 9x is based on windows NT tweaked to play nice with Dos.
Genocidicbunny
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Here's a screenshot of system properties for my laptop after I "turned off" the paging file.
Note the Paging List. Its not 0. That means that Windows is still dumping pages to somewhere. In fact, it has recreated the paging file as it needed. There's no way to force this behaviour to not happen as it is written into the kernel.
Note the Paging List. Its not 0. That means that Windows is still dumping pages to somewhere. In fact, it has recreated the paging file as it needed. There's no way to force this behaviour to not happen as it is written into the kernel.
it will only occur if you run out of system memory and the system has time to react, or if you didnt do the proper work around for it, as was listed above, this fools the kernal into thinking the page file is there, when it really doesnt exist. Its all about fooling windows.
This is far as I was able to get in your post without proper punctuation and paragraphs.
Genocidicbunny
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Where I have worked, you'd have been fired not an hour into your first day for that attitude. Proper grammar and ability to communicate well is essential in the tech field.
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example: Suppose you have two unlabeled cans on a shelf. One is turquoise while the other is green. The green one has flammable cleaner and the turquoise one has compressed air.
A new person on the job notices a glob of dust on the heatsink and asks you which can is the compressed air. You say "the green one" when you mean the other one (the two colors are similar I think). So the new person grabs the can and sprays it while the computer is running.
Can you guess what happens?
(OK, unrealistic example but it shows what I mean.)
spoken grammer is, written is not. I dont write down step by step what i did for a client, remember I fix there computer because there to dumb to know the diffrence between a hard drive and ram. I can say im running stress tests and leave it powered down on the bench for a week and they wont know the diffrence and they don't question it, but of course that only happens to people that are a real pain. But those morons wouldnt understand a complex diagnose's anyway so I dont spell out what i did, I say Clean up and optimization, or I say upgrade, on there recipt, thats all they need to know about what happened. When im talking to them my grammer is fine, but its not really required in written format in this field unless your a lackey or a desk jockey, that has to call people like me up to troubleshoot your companies network of course.
if there to dumb to read a can they wouldn't get a job in the first place.
aimeeandbeatles
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Maybe you oughta read closer, I said the cans are unlabeled.
except under US law you can't its a violation of OSHA and wouldn't happen in a workplace, so i stand if they cant read a can there morons. Also a cleaner wouldnt be back by the bench it would be in the back, a can of air would be on or near a work bench. Then again every place I worked as a tech we didnt use canned air, we used an Air Compressor, its alot cheaper than canned air.
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Never mind, you wouldnt get the point anyways.
No i get your point but you use a situation that doesn't and should never exist in a professional work situation, if you want to make a point provide a realistic situation. But yes if he hit it with flamable cleaner id still fire him, it was still his mistake, but then again why would you remove the names of cans in the first place, down here in America we do things diffrent it seems.
But then again i doubt any of you work professionaly on computers all day for your job, so your excused for not understanding how things work in this field. Rule no1 is we are smarter than the customer, they bring it to us for a reason, so we simply give them the basic, we are going to clean it up and make it go faster to which they respond ok. They need us, they need there little box's back so they can get on with there lives, and while we have it, we have the power of the mindless drone that uses it daily.
But then again i doubt any of you work professionaly on computers all day for your job, so your excused for not understanding how things work in this field. Rule no1 is we are smarter than the customer, they bring it to us for a reason, so we simply give them the basic, we are going to clean it up and make it go faster to which they respond ok. They need us, they need there little box's back so they can get on with there lives, and while we have it, we have the power of the mindless drone that uses it daily.
It's important on here, the cool people won't take you seriously if your posts are too much effort to read because of laziness on your part.
Genocidicbunny
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No...doesn't look like thats what your posts are doing either.
Let me check...nope. Nothing.
May I ask where you work by the way? Id like to know what company it is I should avoid.
how hard is it to tell a metallic box and an animal apart, further more what the hell are you doing with an animal? you claim to be a computer technician so what's with the livestock????
when you write upgrade how hard is it to write CPU, RAM or SSD on it? Or Virus scan/Defrag?
