TRAV365 Posted July 27, 2007 Report Share Posted July 27, 2007 (edited) hi i just bought a wireless gaming reciver for my computer lol and now i dont think my computers good enough to run it as it will not install it. specs required to run it windows xp sp1 or higher pentium 300 MHz or higher 150mb avalible hard drive space 128 mb ram and a usb port and heres a pic of my computers specs i guess its the pentium bit thats not good enough to run it but mine says GHz not MHz??? Edited July 27, 2007 by TRAV365 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Scrapman53 Posted July 27, 2007 Report Share Posted July 27, 2007 Nowt wrong with that Trav. There's roughly 1000mhz to 1ghz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demonstone Posted July 27, 2007 Report Share Posted July 27, 2007 (edited) hi i just bought a wireless gaming reciver for my computer lol and now i dont think my computers good enough to run it as it will not install it. specs required to run it windows xp sp1 or higher pentium 300 MHz or higher 150mb avalible hard drive space 128 mb ram and a usb port and heres a pic of my computers specs i guess its the pentium bit thats not good enough to run it but mine says GHz not MHz??? procesors ok m8, 2.8 is the norm theses days on 32bit its the ram you might want to look at, as xp minums is 512 jus to run, although under most sircumstances 512 is jus about enough, ram upgrade is probaly bets solution, as a lot of newer games ect advise minimum of 1gig ram, Edited July 27, 2007 by demonstone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRAV365 Posted July 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 27, 2007 cheers lads no idea why it will not install the program then arghhhh still stuck with the keyboard for now then lol only bought it so i could try the xbox360 pad on rfactor lmao rofl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demonstone Posted July 27, 2007 Report Share Posted July 27, 2007 try the recivers (brand website) its possible the installer might be knackerd and you may find a solution there if its giving specific error msgs wen trying to install post them here some 1 might be ablt to help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRAV365 Posted July 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 27, 2007 ive had a look on the xbox site do not see any probs with the disks this is the error message i got it cant be my computer specs because they are ok as above and ive got 20gb of spare space on my hard drive so not that. ill try taking it back and getting another copy tomoz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walker Posted July 27, 2007 Report Share Posted July 27, 2007 Hi all am thinking of buying Rfactor maybe and was wondering if my pc will be able to handle it . here is a pic if its helps . walker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Scrapman53 Posted July 27, 2007 Report Share Posted July 27, 2007 Trav. 1 or 2 Gb of memory and a decent graphics card will see you Ok with rFactor m8. No need for that new PC you were thinking of. I actually thought it was an older system you had that you wanted a new PC. Trav and Walker. Download and run CPUZ and take a screenshot of each screen when you go through all the tabs, then post them on here. I'll be able to advise on any upgrades if needed then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walker Posted July 27, 2007 Report Share Posted July 27, 2007 (edited) right took some screen shots but dunno if its the write ones u wanted to see . no good with pc's right sorry had to edit the reply as something went bell up [attachmentid=17862] screen_shots.zip Edited July 27, 2007 by walker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demonstone Posted July 27, 2007 Report Share Posted July 27, 2007 @ trav ive come across various instances in the past wer lack of physical ram can casue these errors whilst unpacking and installing, as you only have 512 ram it may be an issue. to get round this, goto view system info as you have done, goto advance tab and select performance/settings. then select advance tab again, and look at virtual memory at the bottom, as you only have 512 ram increase the virtual memory to 1024 (double your physical ram) what this does, when your physical ram is all used up by processes ect, it pages memory usage on to you hard drive using the space as virtual memory, you can try ending un-need processes in task manger, also antivirus and anti spyware apps are notorious for messing with installations. try quiting any of these, if non of this helps i would say its another crappy Micro$not buggie piece of cack installer also @ walker try increasing vitual memory aswell you can download rfactor as try b4 you buy your gracic card capability is agp x8 so it should run rfactor reasonably well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walker Posted July 27, 2007 Report Share Posted July 27, 2007 Hi just one more question I aint good with pc's (sorry for spelling) I went to increase vitual memory as u have stated to do but dunno what bit to select etc . any chance of a hand would be appreciated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demonstone Posted July 27, 2007 Report Share Posted July 27, 2007 @ walker look at custom size field inital size = 336 maximum size = 736 and press srt i would advise a ram upgrade though as with a lot of newer stuff it requires a lot of it a lot of apps games ect these days recomend 1 gig minimum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walker Posted July 27, 2007 Report Share Posted July 27, 2007 so a ram upgrade do i need to buy that or can u tweak it in pc ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRAV365 Posted July 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 27, 2007 (edited) cheers scrapman and demonstone ill post some screenies up tomoz thanks very much for all your help oh and scrapman whats CPUZ??? lol Edited July 27, 2007 by TRAV365 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrighty496 Posted July 27, 2007 Report Share Posted July 27, 2007 cheers scrapman and demonstone ill post some screenies up tomoz thanks very much for all your help oh and scrapman whats CPUZ??? lol you can get CPUZ from this link trav. I've just tried it.....download that then unzip to a new folder, then go to it and run the cpuz application. It gives you 6 tabs of different data for scrapman to see all of your system hardware info (nothing secret, just ram sizes, chip rates etc....i was baffled , might post my own up lol) glad to see you got RF too, enjoy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F2-Fan Posted July 28, 2007 Report Share Posted July 28, 2007 so a ram upgrade do i need to buy that or can u tweak it in pc ? Walker for a ram upgrade you have to go out and buy bigger memory chips. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walker Posted July 28, 2007 Report Share Posted July 28, 2007 kool cheers for letting me know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRAV365 Posted July 28, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 28, 2007 cheers scrapman heres my cpuz pics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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walker Posted July 28, 2007 Report Share Posted July 28, 2007 hi again I downloaded the trial for rfactor and went to have a go and this came up . any help as am no good with this kind of stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Scrapman53 Posted July 28, 2007 Report Share Posted July 28, 2007 Markie has the same problem Walker. It might be that your virtual memory needs tweaked. But hold on just now. I've posted on another forum to see if that's what it is. I'll get back when I get an answer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walker Posted July 28, 2007 Report Share Posted July 28, 2007 cheers mate sorry if I sound a pain in the back side Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Scrapman53 Posted July 28, 2007 Report Share Posted July 28, 2007 Trav. Do you know what Graphics card you have? 512mb RAM is the minimum for rFactor. You would probably benefit from 1gb of RAM, but they don't make that memory any more, so it would have to be Ebay for 2 512 sticks of PC2100 (or DDR266 which it is also called) unbuffered. Walker. I done a search for "insufficient disc swap space" and it looks like not enough memory installed. But Markie is having the same problem, and he's had the game running before. It may be a virtual memory thing which you can set yourself, or you might want to try running enditall first to see if that cures it. Another thing you can try is closing down processes with the windows task manager. (Do this part at your own risk though). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Scrapman53 Posted July 28, 2007 Report Share Posted July 28, 2007 Oh. Forgot to add Walker. The CPUZ screenie shows you only have 256mb RAM. The minimum is 512. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRAV365 Posted July 28, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 28, 2007 cheers for your help scrapman not 100% sure what graphics card is in it but i bought it about 2 years ago for about £100 quid lol so i could play a colin mcrae game. ive had a few goes on rfactor and all seems fine graphics wise so should be sorted ill have another go monday at loading the wireless converter thingy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markie176 Posted July 28, 2007 Report Share Posted July 28, 2007 Thanks to scrapman my rfactor is up and running again i had same problem as walker after days of trying all sorts of stuff it was easy in the end all i had to do is run endital . cheers scrapman for all the help . cheers markie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Scrapman53 Posted July 28, 2007 Report Share Posted July 28, 2007 No probs Trav and Markie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walker Posted July 29, 2007 Report Share Posted July 29, 2007 tried end it all but still doing same thing .looks like chance of rfactor is gone o well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Scrapman53 Posted July 29, 2007 Report Share Posted July 29, 2007 Looks like you need more memory then m8. Btw. What graphics card do you have? Right click on the desktop and select properties. Then click the settings tab, then the advanced button, then the adapter tab. It will tell you what graphics card you have in there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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