Scritto da: KnightWilliam 15/11/2006 11.26
sul forum suupprot tra el tante consgliavano questa..
You are right to ask those things magpie.
And if it really is a game specific problem CA will most certainly react.
BUT having mixed RAM has always been an issue. It is somehow a problem with the mainboards and the RAM when they are mixed....I don't even understand it myself properly. BUT I myself have experienced this issue to manifest itself in very strange ways. It is even possible to not show up on 90% of your games but certain games it will show up. I *think* it has something to do with the amount of RAM really needed by the game. And MTW2 apparently really can need 1GB and thus cause your mainboard to access the RAM not properly.
As for changing your hardware. I would most certainly wait for further notes from CA and or patches as well as trying thorough Memtests with all RAM's in or updating BIOS and chipset drivers might help as well. Even setting your RAM timings to slower values might solve this stability problem (for example setting the RAM command rate to 2t from 1t or decreasing latency settings from CL2 to 3).
If you want to find out more about this problem you could test those things whether or not they have influence.
My bet is that reducing command rate or latencie WILL solve it even when using more than one stick.
Iscaran
Hi Iscaran.
You, sir, are a genius. The command rate was the key, I changed it - and guess what - no more crashes with 2 Gig of mem installed. But until now I'm not quite sure what I did exactly... .
In the BIOS I chose advanced chipset features, then DRAM configuration. After that I changed the user config mode from auto to manual. The memory timing was obviously set to 2T when in auto mode, so I changed it to 1T - and that's it. I've been playing for several hours now and not a single crash happened. Also, according to 3DMark05, this didn't impact performance at all. As far as I can see in Medieval 2, this is true.
Well, thanks a lot Iscaran. You gave me the solution I was looking for (and hopefully it will work for the other people with this problem as well). But now I have to go. The Holy Roman Empire is getting impatient .
praticamnte quello di prima aveva consigliato di odificare la ram,
solo che io nel bios il comando auto-manual che dice questo non l'ho trovato..
faccio, advanced-chipset- poi che devo fare?
non o capito bene.. la latency la dovrei aumentare e il command rate diminuire?[Modificato da KnightWilliam 15/11/2006 11.27]
La memoria lasciala tare Willy.
PS: se con i driver di prima non avevi problemi, c'è un programma per disinstallare i nuovi, altrimenti aspetta l'imminente patch :p