Question: Is there anyway to reduce the memory useage of DR

[Bikerdude]

I ask because on my laptop I only have 4GB of ram and while working on Bcd I am using 2.5gb. DR along with the OS is using up almost all of the physical ram, I have already tweaked the OS, so untill I can get another stick is there anything I can do with DR in the meantime..?

 

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[motorsep]

Not that I know of. However, if you are on Win 7+, you can get fast USB stick and Windows will use it as RAM in addition to your system RAM. USB sticks are inexpensive.

[Bikerdude]

Your thinking of Readyboost, which is a different technology.

[nbohr1more]

Well, you could designate the USB as swap file (virtual memory) but the tradeoff in performance would probably be pretty bad.

 

Did you already disable Aero?

 

The only other way I can imagine is to point to a mod install base with less texture assets. Basically pack your own TDM version with only textures from your

missions included.

[Bikerdude]

Moving the pagefile isnt the issue nor will it fix it. The issue is hysical ram, I just dont have enough when working on bcd. DR is using 2.5GB when working on Bcd. I have order another stick of 4gb to boost total ram to 8gb but not sure if that will arrive before xmas.

 

I have reduced the standby ram amount (its how window caches frequently used files) from 1.5gb to 200mb but turning off superfetch, it dosent help that the intel HD gfx is stealing part of my ram.

• Windows 7 after a fresh root uses 998mb
• Intel Gfx uses 512mb, any less and DR/TDM noticably underperfoms.

That leaves 2.5gb for programs, and DR with Bcd loaded uses nearly all of that...