Huge Lag on Monster System

[z]

How can i test for drive failures on windows 7 ?

Try looking in the Event Viewer under Windows Logs => System.  If you're having hard drive failures, they'll show up there.

[cody426]

Try looking in the Event Viewer under Windows Logs => System.  If you're having hard drive failures, they'll show up there.

yes, in most cases.  I have had a few machines that did not throw disk errors in event logs but did not pass drive testing either.

The reason I thought my disk may have been going bad was because of the noises it would make.

[gabrielbyrnei]

Forgot a key factor.

I got my Linux and Windows OS's each on its own Hardrive.

I doubt both of them are failling. Newest one being not een 2 years old. Only thing i can think of is low ammount of RAM

[cody426]

I have not tried SC4 on Win 7 but 2GB Ram is not very much.  SC4 on my machine uses about 764MB of Ram wile running in a large city tile with 80K sims.  My testing machine at work running windows 7 running just an Antivirus is using 1.3GB.  Add those together and your at 2GB, but linux should use far less memory.

wile SC4 is running press Alt+Tab and then open task manager in windows and check the RAM usage in the performance tab to see whats available.

couldn't tell you how to check the same thing in linux.  google will know the answer.

[gabrielbyrnei]

Just tried and the whole OS+SC4 are only using 70% of total Ram.

This is on a 1.5 million city.

[SC4BOY]

Nope.. low RAM is unlikely to cause a problem unless you're already on the "hairy edge" for your OS recommendations. SC4 actually isn't very RAM intensive. People have done a number of experiments and have failed to show ANY gains once you reach about 2G of RAM (actually less, but not many add increments of lower than 1G steps.. )

[gabrielbyrnei]

Thing is really really weird.
I get almost the same slow performance from a 1.5 million to a 100 thousand sim city. I tried removing traffic plugin z and leaving the game with the standard one, no success as usual

[z]

I'd start in with hardware testing at this point - memory, CPU, and video would be at the top of my list.

[gabrielbyrnei]

CPU is 1 month old. Memory isnt failling, did several torture test.

Played on both, Hardware and Software renderers, so i would rule GPU out aswell