So every once in a while I start getting real bad lag and when I get out of FFXI and get the POL viewer down to the smaller window, I open up task manager and I notice that my CPU is either at 100% or very close. I look at my processes and nothing larger then the POL viewer is running. So I go through and exit the viewer and my CPU drops down to 2% or where ever its supposed to be. I start it back up and it spikes for a second the falls back down to 20% or so. Everything is fine so I log back in and eventually I start getting lag again. Has anyone seen this problem?
Machine Specs:
Dell Dimension 4600
2.8 Ghz
512 Ram
GeForceFX 5200 Video
plenty of free hard drive space (~70GB)
Running Windows XP Home Edition
All current Windows hotfixes
All drivers current according to Windows Update (Mostly installed off the OEM driver CD)
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Could be you are hitting a ram limit. Check and see if you have alot of extra programs running in the background. I wonder if POL viewer has a memory leak?
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Could be you are hitting a ram limit.
Thats the wierd thing; both the Physical memory and the virtual and showing plenty of free space.
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Check and see if you have alot of extra programs running in the background
Nope, its actually a clean install with nothing but the OS and FFXI.
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I wonder if POL viewer has a memory leak?
Yeah, I was wondering the same thing.
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wonder if POL viewer has a memory leak?
I've been wondering that sense it was released. I have 1 gig of ram, and a Athlon xp 2100+ processer, and it still uses 100% of system resources. THAT pisses me off.
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However, Thurston, what process is running at 100%?
I'm not sure. When I look at my running processes POL is using the most memory but it's only ~60,000kb. How do you check what's using your processor?
In taskman, the CPU column is how much % an app is using. Click the CPU column header itself and it will sort by CPU usage, which one is using the most?
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