running vista with 2gig and noticed a big difference in smoothness, the choppy dvd/system skipping i was receiving was removed, when changing mem allocation from 384 to 640. anyone else noticed this? increase in ram increase smoothness? if so what would be the cut off point of noticing a difference. getting 4gig for video editing in the next week or so ill probably find out there. what is the consensus on ram allocation though and how it helps qw?

if you have enough ram you don't have to read from the hdd more than once. and harrdrive = infinitely slower than ram, simple as that

May be his system is full of enabled services, residential A/V and firewall software ...

ezquake-gl.exe peaks at ~150MB RAM usage

please don't remind me of windows...

i run vista with 2gig of ram and have nothing in system tray. i have windows defender in the background running and remove nod32 anti virus which is the only sys tray application before playing quake.

that being said when i increase from 384 to 640 mem allocation it smoothens sht up..

It just means Vista is sht and that's all. May be Vienna will be better (why I doubt it?), but until then ... XP and Ubuntu for me.

thanks for that, really helps me understand why there is a difference in smoothness when increasing ram.

anyways, i'm sure the same thing happens with xp, massive increases in ram increase the smoothness of quake. is this true, its been a while since ive run xp...

tested it with xp, changed from 256 to 640mb ram. There is a very small difference. Often when i test small changes like this i test with bots, since they are consistent, and its no ping or server version that one could say changed the feel otherwise. Best description is a feeling off more "headroom"
Maybe windows get less ram to use on other stuff or something. I have 26 process running while quakeing.

Its not true. I run it on XP and don't even use cmd line, just ezquake-gl.exe. 32mb allocated, no problems, smooth as fuck without dramas.

It means that Vista sucks a big fat juicy KAWK

RAM usage surely heavily depends on your models, sounds, textures etc. Not to mention the map and mod.