I ran into a problem on my dell desktop about a month ago.
A friend had been playing Oblivion for at least 14 hours on the system with very short breaks. When he finally exited the program, a dialog box came up saying that the computer was converting more Hard Drive space to virtual memory. I clicked sat down and promptly clicked off the dialog box without thinking about it! Good one...
First of all, does the computer save any kind of history of those faults that I can access to know what was said and what happened, or are they just lost to the wind?
AND...isn't the computer using Hard Drive space like RAM? I have heard that the system will do things like that when the RAM cannot handle the glut of info being moved around, so the computer allocates Hard Drive space like virtual RAM. Eh?
It wasn't a bad computer, I only had it for about 2 years. It was a DELL desktop and if I remember right it had almost 4 GB of processor speed, 230 GB Hard Drive, 1 GB RAM (yeah I know, thats low), and a Radeon X300 256 MB video card using that crummy hyper-memory-stuff, more like 128 MB of video memory! RAM storage, what a gyp! ( I do know that the video card it had is long obsolete!).
Any thoughts to this?
Thank you for your replies:
The Flannel Guy