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low memory
on my computer i have low memory.. lol.. i have 3 sims games saved on it, and every time i play in the middle of it, it will shut off saying low memory.. i downloaded like houses and people adn such for my game.. how can i get more memory?.. without deleting my houses and such.. thanks!!
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buying an external hardrive will not help you in the least bit. buying more ram will only help you if you have room for in in your computer. heres something you can do as a temporary solution (assuming you have windows XP)
go to the control panel
open up system
click advanced
click settings under performance
click advanced
click changed under virtual memory
if its not selected, select custom size
set your initial and maximum to something higher, mine is set to 4000 and 4096, which i believe might be the max.
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Buy an external hard drive. It's like 100$ or so
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**Edit: Changing the virtual memory size only works to a point, and it is much less effective than RAM. You will almost always have more room for 1-2 sticks of RAM, if you bought the computer new. If you change the virtual memory size, set both values to 4095 for the best performance. If you have no RAM slots left, buying a very small(6GB minimum) internal hard drive and putting the page file on that will be an alright alternative, though RAM is much, much better.**
This is a problem with your RAM. It is not a problem with your storage/hard disk, and anyone that tells you it is is wrong. You need to run less programs while playing the sims. Temporarily exit your firewall/antivirus/antispyware, and any other programs you are running(right click each icon in the lower right and select exit). If that still isn't enough, you need to buy more RAM. Go to Geek Squad(or wherever) and tell them "I'd like to buy two hundred fifty six megabytes of RAM, and I'd like you to install it", then pay them whatever they ask for(It'll be around $150); you'll need to give them your computer.
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