accessing the hard drive. ugh!

[Arrowhead]

This game seems to be using up all of my 1 gig of RAM on some maps and reverting to accessing the hard drive while playing even on normal settings. is this normal? because I'm experiencing some annoying hitching because of it.

even on low settings, it doesn't use up all of my availiable ram but is still resorting to accessing textures or something from my hard drive. is there a fix?

I'm running a P4 2.6c w/ 800mhz FSB, 6600gt 128mb, 1gig 400ddr.

 

[Greasemonkey]

I had this problem when I only had 512mb of ram. My specs are:
A64 3000+
6600GT
1 gig DDR400

So we are pretty much the same. Before I had 1 gig the game would stutter alot, but since I bought more ram it has gone away. I'd suggest closing down all other programs in the background, or cutting down on the programs that open at startup. Restart your PC, give a good cleaning really.

Hope that helps.

 

[Arrowhead]

they are all closed, and with steam running I have 800mb free. but when I load the game it goes down to 80mb free. even when I run on low settings, I have 250 mb free but it still hitches and accesses the hard drive.

 

[Greasemonkey]

that is odd. what kind of soundcard do you have? if its a cheap one make sure precaching is off. infact, just play around with precaching and see if that helps out.