Hi, just joined, first post.
Thru my google searches on this topic the only answer I have found, which appears to be the general consensus, is 8.1 does a great job with memory management, just let it handle it.
Here's the thing. I bought a used Dell Venue 8 Pro 5830 Win 8.1 tablet, for the SOLE purpose of playing Civ 5 without being glued to a laptop/desktop. The tab handles it reasonably well. Its only got 32gb built in, leaving about 8gb free with 8.1 updated and nothing installed on C:. I have a 128gb SD card installed which holds Civ 5 and Ccleaner. On a fresh restart, again, with nothing installed or running, Windows uses 45% of the 2gb memory. Running civ 5 pushes the between 95-99% causing it to crash quite often.
Since the ONLY purpose of this tab is to play this game on a portable device and nothing else, no facebook, gmaIl, netflix, anything at all, are there any windows components/services i can disable to free up RAM? I really dont care about windows storing my most used tasks in RAM i just want the most possible free to be able to run the game. No office, no googling, no apps, just my game. That's it, that's all.
Any input is much appreciated.TIA
Thru my google searches on this topic the only answer I have found, which appears to be the general consensus, is 8.1 does a great job with memory management, just let it handle it.
Here's the thing. I bought a used Dell Venue 8 Pro 5830 Win 8.1 tablet, for the SOLE purpose of playing Civ 5 without being glued to a laptop/desktop. The tab handles it reasonably well. Its only got 32gb built in, leaving about 8gb free with 8.1 updated and nothing installed on C:. I have a 128gb SD card installed which holds Civ 5 and Ccleaner. On a fresh restart, again, with nothing installed or running, Windows uses 45% of the 2gb memory. Running civ 5 pushes the between 95-99% causing it to crash quite often.
Since the ONLY purpose of this tab is to play this game on a portable device and nothing else, no facebook, gmaIl, netflix, anything at all, are there any windows components/services i can disable to free up RAM? I really dont care about windows storing my most used tasks in RAM i just want the most possible free to be able to run the game. No office, no googling, no apps, just my game. That's it, that's all.
Any input is much appreciated.TIA
My Computer
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- OS
- Windows 8.1