more RAM = Crash????

Sephiroth169 · Post by **Sephiroth169** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 11:16 am

hi, i have a big Problem.

i just bought another 512 Ram(have 1024 Ram now), so i can finally play the Game without performance Problems.

but after i bought the Ram, the Game crashes and returns to the Desktop.

as i had 512 Ram only, i didnt have that Problem.
i can play it now, but after 1 Minute or so, the Game just exits to the Desktop.

what the matter damn? i even patched that Game.
shure with 512 Ram, i had performance Problems in town, and now
the Performance Problems are gone, but it just exits to the Desktop after
1 Minute.

fable · Post by **fable** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 11:38 am

You can't crash from too much RAM.

If the RAM is bad, or incorrectly installed, or something else was messed up during installation, then you could crash.

Sephiroth169 · Post by **Sephiroth169** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 11:57 am

but i even re - installed my display Driver ( ATI Catalyst 4.11 )
but the Problem still exists.
now the game even crashes at the beginning, where i can spend my status points.

but the Problem happened directly AFTER i bought my new Ram, and removed
my old one

old Ram was: Kingston 512
my new one is : 1024 Infineon

and iam really shure that my Ram is insert correctly.
i even reads 1GB Ram at my PCs status screen now.

Sephiroth169 · Post by **Sephiroth169** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 12:38 pm

theres now a txt file in my Vampire Folder.
i says the following

vampire caused an Access Violation (0xc0000005)
in module vgui2.dll at 001b:01a134c2.

Write to location 0000037e caused an access violation.

-----[ SysInfo ]-----
Error occurred at 1/6/2005 18:34:38.
1 processor(s), type 586.
43% memory in use.
1024 MBytes physical memory.
579 MBytes physical memory free.
0 MBytes paging file.
0 MBytes paging file free.
2048 MBytes user address space.
1256 MBytes user address space free.

what to hell is this Access Violation?

Minimus · Post by **Minimus** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 1:16 pm

i am strongly recomand that u run some benchmarks on your new RAM ... it is obvious that your problem appear after u instaled new chip ... so stress him a little and see if its not damaged in any way ... hope that its not the case but it is one thing that i could think of ...

Sephiroth169 · Post by **Sephiroth169** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 1:47 pm

damn i dont have any Benchmark. know a site where i can download it?

but i mean, if the RAM would be damaged, i would be displayed somehow,
because at my PCs status screen it shows 1GB Ram.
and the other Games i have, run better than ever with this new Ram.

Eftestad · Post by **Eftestad** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 2:05 pm

//Sorry for my poor english writing//
Kingston RAM's don't like to be mixed with other firm RAM's :/ i had the same problem but i got 256 Kingston and i bouth another 256 and it crushed and then i sold this new 256 to a friend and bought another kingston 256 and the game is going realy nice

Sephiroth169 · Post by **Sephiroth169** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 3:01 pm

noo, i dont mixed them.
i had 512 Ram from Kingston (2 x 256) and removed it.
and bought 1024 Ram from Infineon ( 2 x 512 )
just after i put the Infineon RAM into the slots, this Problem started.
the Game just crashed and exits to Desktop, at point where it never did before with my 512 from Kingston. thats what i dont understand.

Maxinion · Post by **Maxinion** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 9:39 pm

Go to http://www.memtest86.com and follow the instructions on the site to create a boot disk. Run it overnite, and see if it returns any errors. More than likely your Ram is borked... if not your Ram, then the slot on your mobo. Tell us what happens after downloading that.