Construction Set Issue

[Shadowfen]

 

 

Here's what I have under physical memory when I open it.

 

Total: 3999

Cached: 2140

Acailable: 2572

Free: 462

 

I am afraid that you may be simply running out of memory.

[Tomlong54210]

A restart will take care of that....unless your startup is something awful. Post it again after a restart, your memory usage status.

[BloodyFox]

I'm not a very... computer-ish person so excuse me if this is a stupid question but, even if it does work right after a restart, how would that help me in the long run? I mean, I'd hate to have to restart everytime my memory got too low to run the thing. Is there a long term fix that's cheap? I don't want to buy anything and actually put it in since I've had back luck with things like graphics cards and sound cards toasting my computers.

[Tomlong54210]

I'm not a very... computer-ish person so excuse me if this is a stupid question but, even if it does work right after a restart, how would that help me in the long run? I mean, I'd hate to have to restart everytime my memory got too low to run the thing. Is there a long term fix that's cheap? I don't want to buy anything and actually put it in since I've had back luck with things like graphics cards and sound cards toasting my computers.

Your system's memory usage would stay at "reasonable" levels if you had fewer memory leaking processes running. If that is not the problem, you simply have quite a few unnecessary background processes running.

 

Do a clean boot and add processes back slowly - http://www.ehow.com/how_5331553_clean-boot-windows.html

 

Try to keep the used memory that your computer starts up with fairly low. That's the big goal.