Allocating memory to WOW

[InfectedWithRage]

Is there a way to see how much is allocated and is there a way to increase what is allocated? I know you can set up the mods to use "X" ammount, but WOW too?


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[Loriel]

I don't think there is a way to allocate memory to WoW - it will pretty much consume whatever you have to offer.. Add some more RAM to your PC and you will see an immediate improvement, at least up to 1GB.

[D.K.night]

That's not up to you to tweak or configure, that's up to the operating system and the application to decide.

[InfectedWithRage]

I've had 2 gigs in this rig for about 3 years or so. I was wondering b/c I know I was able to allocate more memory to the FPS's I played, improving performance. For some reason those games didn't set it themselves, or in my eyes, not enough.

[Kalos]

Windows XP makes it's choice. It's not always the best, it often has other ideas. It doesn't like using every last MB of Ram, it always like to keep a small buffer free for new events that will occur invariably at some point or another by user demand. It also has to make a careful balancing act between the applications, not just the primary game you're trying to use, but all the back ground crap that runs, they'd all demand an optimum share but they can never all be fully satisfied without huge expendature. Figuring in memory leaks, and you can never have enough. It's all up to the programming really. Plug the ram in, let it make its own mind up. Giving it more than it wants or tries to use would be a waste, its not programmed to have memory allocated like that.

FPS's are based on very, very different engines. Completely different, worlds apart in terms of underlying programming. What works for one genre won't be the rule of thumb for another. Else we'd have all games being heavily GPU reliant; and other generalisations made fact.