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Paintball 2: The Game => Help and Support => Topic started by: Malware on November 30, 2012, 10:56:43 AM

Title: Clearing RAM
Post by: Malware on November 30, 2012, 10:56:43 AM

Open Notepad.
Type "FreeMem=Space(64000000)".
Save it to Desktop as "RAMcleaner.VBS"
Double click it

Does this notepad trick actually speeds up pc?

Title: Re: Clearing RAM
Post by: ViciouZ on November 30, 2012, 11:21:33 AM

Looks to me like it allocates 64mb of memory to a string of spaces and then exits, if anything. So, no, it won't speed up your pc.

Title: Re: Clearing RAM
Post by: jitspoe on December 02, 2012, 05:40:09 PM

Only thing it might do is allocate a continuous block of memory and force existing programs using memory to be paged, thus reducing fragmentation for any new programs that get opened and use memory.  I suppose it could possibly speed somethings up in certain scenarios, but it will most likely slow down currently active applications.  On modern computers with 8+ gigs of ram, it will probably not do anything at all, since 64 megs will likely be available.  Seems like something that may have been useful on old versions of windows on old machines with 64-128 megs of ram.