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DeezNut$
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Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 17:40 Post subject:
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Hey gang.
The other day I noticed the menu screen for HL2DM was fine until a second before the menu appears. Then it got all pixelated and rough looking. After that, I couldn't play the game. I'd connect to a server, then a complete hemorraging of my RAM would begin. Took me from 1.5 GB RAM available to 24MB!!!
Can't find out why it's my only steam game that's doing this. Reinstalled once, worked for one round. Then not working again. Reinstalled both steam and the game, defragged local files, deleted old content, nothing works.
I attached the menu screen along with Task Manager's process window showing my RAM almost gone.
Hope to fix this and see you all in game hopefully.
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StonedCabbage
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Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 18:59 Post subject:
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mine always goes pixelated however the game continues to play fine
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Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 19:45 Post subject:
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Use ram booster, I have 512mb ram and sometimes I have to use the software to free up my ram.
Added to attachment, its free for 15 days, and safe.
Heres some pictures of me using it also.
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DeezNut$
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Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 02:05 Post subject:
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Tried it man. Watched it bleed the 647 MB of RAM it freed within 20 seconds.
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Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 12:09 Post subject:
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I sometimes click "Full optimization" 3 times to really free the ram.
(make sure you don't have any other programes open at the time)
Or
Plan b
Load hl2dm, get the windows task manager up "Ctrl, Alt, Delete"
Right click the hl2.exe, then set priority and select low. This should free up some memory.
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Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 17:51 Post subject:
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the longer I have windows running the more the ram gets filled, will this program get it back to the state it starts at first after getting into windows?
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gtamike_TSGK
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Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 17:53 Post subject:
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Lawitz wrote: |
the longer I have windows running the more the ram gets filled, will this program get it back to the state it starts at first after getting into windows? |
Should do, check out the (Doc).rar I attached for more information.
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Nutz
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Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 20:46 Post subject:
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By default DM should only use 25% of your ram. I have mine forced
to use 70% of mine and rarely crash (once a week)
Maybe there is a problem with yours. Try right clicking on
HL2DM and clicking launch properties. you have 1.5 GB of ram
so I know you don't have Vista so in the box type this
-Heapsize 512000
This will force DM to use no more than 512MB. See if this helps.
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Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 19:28 Post subject:
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the only thing that i can say here is that you format the HDD's and start from scratch...Backup some stuff you need first tho. There is a joke about windows.
2 Guys came to a thought thay can code a OS. So thay were working on it for a good month. And was up to see how will the first compile will work. So thay start the compilator and read the error sign that poped up. It said : Sorry , but only Billy can code something with his but"
So, sometimes the Windows OS glitches and you eather fix it somehow...or start from scratch. It's your call man.
maybe you should try to set the priorities as mike say.
Best of luck man!
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Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 19:44 Post subject:
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Better to get lastest MS updates then.
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Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 17:04 Post subject:
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Well...here goes...LOL
Did a system restore to 1/5/09.
I power cycled the router and modem. Everything was good again.
My buddy (great online gamer and sick PC dude) told me my TCP stack was prolly to blame.
Undid the restore and it was screwed again.
So, I power cycled the router. Still screwed. I brought my video settings to the lowest possible settings and stuck to servers with low latency for where I'm at. It worked! So, I slowly brought different settings up keeping task manager up to monitor paging and RAM usage. I increased model detail, texture detail, etc. and it's holding. This morning even the menu was unpixelated. So, I've decided to invest in a gaming machine my buddy and I are going to build. It's going to be sick.
Thanks to everyone (especially gtaMike! - you = teh kewlnezz) for your help and well wishes (and jokes) and I'll (hopefully) see you all in game peeps!
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StonedCabbage
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Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 18:43 Post subject:
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even on a bad machine HL2DM should run pretty sweet so I dunno why you would suddenly start having serious problems with it. Hope all goes well with your new rig
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Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 19:39 Post subject:
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Defrag hl2dm in steam and then defrag the pc this will boost ingame performance alot, if you want to try. (is my last idea)
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