Yes, another "wtf my comp is gud but sux at SC2, why?"

I've been lowering the gfx options gradually but I still get the warning box that my virtual pool memory (I think it says taht at least) when I start the battles, even on cinematics sometimes. Now I've got a mix of high and lows but still with my comp, it gets choppy. Even if only 5 protoss with "shield fields" come bargin in, it gets choppy.

Intel core 2 Quad cpu Q9450 @ 2.66 mhz
4 gb ram
ATI Radeon 5770 HAWK (cataclyst 10.7 drivers)
win xp 32 bit

 

Have you (accidently?) underclocked you graphics card, e.g. with ATI Tray Tools? (E.g. to safe power in 2D mode.)

On my Radeon HD 4850 which is ~1/4 slower than your HD 5770, I can play on "High" settings without any problems. (Ultra would also be OK, but I prefer the smoother frame rates.) Our CPUs are comparable (Q9450 vs. AMD Phenom II X4 3.0 GHz)

 

i am on a radeon 4670 and it runs on high by default no probs, but with my pentrium 4 3.0D single core it lagged super bad with mass units in game or on screen. With my Core2Duo 2.93 I experience no problems unless its like 4v4 mass units, so could be some issue with your cpu and programming conflict.

 

What do you suppose I do then?

Anyways, it says "Your computer has run out of paged pool memory", and then it lowers some setting automaticly, but is lagggs anyway. Even now on a 1vs1 map with only starter probes. Wtf does that mean? It happened with my options set on "high" setting.

 

Are you using Tuneup Utilities 2010? The autocheck system is running while you are playing?

 

It means that your page file is running out of page space on the hard drive. Try freeing up some hard drive space on the drive Windows is installed onto, and then defrag. I recommend Perfect Disk Pro for this task. Additionally, Perfect Disk as an easy way of deleting temporary data that may be clogging up free space. If that fails, you may need to check your page file settings.

I would upgrade to Windows 7 x64. XP 32 isn't using all of your available system ram because it has to address ram for your video card as well. (4GB limit for 32bit OS - Video card ram = system ram OS can use).

 

I'm getting Tuneup util as we type. But still, I've got 30.5 GB free on the damn disc! Is this not enough for starcraft2?

Anyways, I turned everything to "low" and it runs smoothly, at least 1v1 but it looks like sorrow and the same warnings about the paged pool memory keeps popping up.

 

30GB free is more then enough. Do this to check your page file settings: Go to My Computer, right click it and then choose Properties, go to the Advanced tab, click Performance Options, then click Change.

Make sure its set to "let windows manage my page file settings." Take a screen shot of it if its something different (using the print screen button and pasting the image into paint and saving it as a jpeg, and uploading it to tinypic.com)

Do you have Service Pack 3 installed for XP?

 

Theres a variables.txt line for the paged memory error, might help.

 

So, I've installed Tunup and it did a good job with startups and the like, but nothing for SC2.

I made the correct choice in Performance options, letting the comp decide, it upped the swap file from some 2 gb to 3.3 gb. But it made no difference in SC2 though. Same warnings at the pretty much same places/times while gaming. My testgame is junk yard, 1v1 Zerg vs XXX.

What do I do with this information? :cute: I found 4 on my disc and looked through them, I'm not sur what to find or do...

One thing I found that bothers me is this:



In current values in the bottom, some 157mhz GPU clock and 900 or so mem was registred. Then I enabled overdrive and set it to 935 as you can see, still I see only 400 as current GPU clock. Is this a part of the problem?

 

Bah, never mind that. While trying the game and alt-tabbing back the GPU speed is up to 935 mhz. So I guess that wasn't the problem then.

 

Any news on the matter?

 

As far as I know right now, here's the answer: http://www.starcraft2forum.org/forums/showthread.php?p=363673#post363673

 

pagedPoolLimitEnforced=1
texspace=512

These are the two variables.txt lines, sry I didn't look them up earlier. No promises though. If the other solution works for you, that's great, but otherwise I really wouldn't change the system defaults for paged pool memory just for SCII. I mean unless it only works that way and no other.

 

Well, it didn't fix the problem entirely, but it did LOTS. I tried to change it back and try your solution but it's not possible. Or I just don't know what to write. 0x00000000 didn't do the trick. Anyways, I added your two lines to the variables.txt and I will see what happens next. Thanks.