Sound and memory paging

Ok heres the deal i've put up with it for a few month but i've had just about enough of it.


For Christmas i was given a SB Live! sound card, to use 5.1 surround.

Now it works fine for a while, but then i get a dialogue box that says "Your system is low on virtual memory, windows is increasing the size of you paging file" or something to that effect.

The problem is, after this dialogue is displayed sound doesn't work quite so good. When i try to play a sound, the system will hang for a few moments (up to 30 seconds) before the sound starts playing, in this time i can't do anything except for move the mouse (barely).

I'm sure this isn't a hardware issue because I have used this on Linux and it works just fine, so why not in Windows?


I have Service pack 4, if that makes any difference.

 

I just realised that it isnt the dialogue box, it hangs all the times (it just freakishly worked properly for an hour)

 

Some system specs would help. Also need to know if you are letting 2K handle the page file or if you have set it manually.

Check your event logs for errors that look related and post any here that seem to be. Easiest to open an event, click the icon below the up/down arrows (places a text copy in the clipboard) and post that here.

 

System Specs:

Celery Seven Hundred Megahertz.
Two Hundred and Fifty-Six Megabytes of RAM.
Sound Blaster LIVE! (Five point one) PCI Sound Card.
Sixty-four megabyte PCI Graphics (GeForce II)



Windows 2000 Professional edition handles my pagefile (I don't touch that **** )

 

When i play an mp3 file nothing new shows up in the logs.

 

Thanks. I'd say the first step is to see if the 'low virtual memory' error is real or simply the system reporting the wrong thing.

- make sure you have the latest drivers for the card
- set the virtual memory / pagefile size yourself. Since you are blocking off an area of your hard drive (rather than RAM) and you didn't say how much Hd space you have free, I'll have to wing it but if you can spare the room, set both minimum and maximum to 500Mb. This will ensure not only plenty of room but that the pagefile will not get fragmented while the PC is in use.
- Reboot.
- Clear out any temporary internet files, temp files, and then empty the recycle bin. Then do a defrag.

See if any of that helps.