Hey all! Long time no post. Getting irritated while working in Maya, I started to Google around for information on why the Sidebar needs more RAM reserved than Maya, even though I am using Maya and not the sidebar. Well, all the posts I came over always talk about the same thing; Vista reserves my memory so that apps have play-room or what ever. I WANT TO BE ABLE TO CONTROL THIS! But I can’t find a single way to do so, (that seems to work anyway.) So the sidebar reserves 250MB of RAM for no reason, and I have to restart the app to free it; ironically the Sidebar only uses 30MB once its restarted. What does Microsoft prepare it for?
My results weren’t only disappointing as I stumbled over a tool on Microsoft TechNet; Process Explorer. Why hasn’t this been included in Windows before? You can get detailed task manager information without even installing the app. You can see the apps, how they are running in threes etc. and you can right-click-Google stuff! I’ve been wanting this since Windows 2000.
technet.microsoft.com
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remembering back in the day when i was a manic gamer and wanted to free as much hardware from Windows XP to my game. It was hilarious how much XP demanded of your hardware for nothing. And with Vista its like three times worse, after you have tweaked. Its like taking 1 gig of your RAM, put it on fire and toss it out of the window.. cause this is RAM you will never see again.
(never regretting moving to MAC OS X btw)
March 23rd, 2009
Haha, Yeah, but do you get max working on the Mac or have you changed your favorite 3D app?
I have hopes for Windows 7 though, supposedly its going to fix a lot of these problems, too bad they charge you to get a update.
How is OS X? Thinking about trying it out when I’m investing in a new system, but that is in the far future.
March 23rd, 2009
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