In a 32-bit operating system (as I said above), only 4Gb total will be accessible, so the more RAM on the graphics card, the less will be available for the rest of the system. A 2Gb card will suck up over half of the 4Gb, so it might be time to upgrade Windows to a 64-bit version (Vista, 7 or 8 for example), otherwise you'll benefit from less RAM on the card in your current system.rkk01 wrote:The MSI Twin Frozr (and other) 660 and 760 cards look quite tempting !
ETA - any useful advantage of the 4gb vs 2 gb RAM versions?
PC Failure - Diagnostics help, please!?
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Re: PC Failure - Diagnostics help, please!?
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Re: PC Failure - Diagnostics help, please!?
Now - here's an odd thing - and with much relief...
GPU is back up and running
Removed card from M/B, gave a good clean, including high pressure air throungh the cooling channels, made sure the fan was spinning freely, and re-installed - along with an old PCI slot exhaust fan as an additional case exhaust.
All seems to be good - for now....
... although complaceny served warning
Need to start to put some pennies aside for a replacement - hopefully at some time after the impending expensive season (i.e. Christmas)
ETA - now more confused than ever.... Launching TS2014 caused the PC to crash again - same as yesterday, but rebooted ok, with no effect on the graphics card... Have RSC pushed out an update late this week that might be causing this?
(this time around GPU temp was 47C with fan at 80%, GPU PCB @37C - never got the chnace to get hot...)
GPU is back up and running
Removed card from M/B, gave a good clean, including high pressure air throungh the cooling channels, made sure the fan was spinning freely, and re-installed - along with an old PCI slot exhaust fan as an additional case exhaust.
All seems to be good - for now....
... although complaceny served warning
Need to start to put some pennies aside for a replacement - hopefully at some time after the impending expensive season (i.e. Christmas)ETA - now more confused than ever.... Launching TS2014 caused the PC to crash again - same as yesterday, but rebooted ok, with no effect on the graphics card... Have RSC pushed out an update late this week that might be causing this?
(this time around GPU temp was 47C with fan at 80%, GPU PCB @37C - never got the chnace to get hot...)
Re: PC Failure - Diagnostics help, please!?
Hhhmmmmm
Back to square one on this....
PC hung loading TS2014, had to reset and have lost graphics - so no longer convinced that the GPU has failed.
The "crash" corresponds with the intro video as the game launches.
Didn't have any probs with it until yesterday.
Has my TS install got too big to load on my system?
ETA - Is this a similar problem to the one others have posted about?
Trying to run TS in a cut down mode I'm getting a dump message
"Saved dump file to path\tempdump\TS2014_v38.3a.dmp"
Weren't there some "failed to start" and "memory dump" type threads earlier in the week???
Back to square one on this....
PC hung loading TS2014, had to reset and have lost graphics - so no longer convinced that the GPU has failed.
The "crash" corresponds with the intro video as the game launches.
Didn't have any probs with it until yesterday.
Has my TS install got too big to load on my system?
ETA - Is this a similar problem to the one others have posted about?
Trying to run TS in a cut down mode I'm getting a dump message
"Saved dump file to path\tempdump\TS2014_v38.3a.dmp"
Weren't there some "failed to start" and "memory dump" type threads earlier in the week???