Keyclone and Vista - some issues

[Deekhay]

Hello everyone,

Since this is my first post I'd like to thank you very much. You are the reason why I multiboxing and mb is the only reason why I restarted playing WoW, since I got fed up with the whole "depending on someone else to have fun" thingie :).

Now as far as my problem concerns, I've recently acquired a pc (Quad 6600, dual Nvidia 8800 GT and 4 Gb RAM) with Vista installed and I have like 3-5 crashes/hour while playing WoW and using Keyclone. Of course i know it is only XP supported but it'd be great if you could hint me on something to do.

Any help, mostly appreciated,
Regards all,
Mortah

[Diamndzngunz]

As Keyclone always says.. Make sure you are running as administrator.

[skarlot]

Talking BSOD? Then prolly more hardware, ram, gfx, something not happy rather than Keyclone or Vista. Based on my experience with my specced up, keyclone free XP machine crashing with multiple WoW's.

[keyclone]

sounds like your memory could be flaky. you wouldn't generally notice it in normally operation, since you wouldn't be hitting most of your memory... not until you throw in all those wows.


as for vista, yes, keyclone runs with no problems on vista, so long as you run-as administrator

[Deekhay]

Thank you very much for your replies. I've been having quite few troubles with my machine and you're right the problem's not coming from keyclone.

There might be something wrong with my memory because I have 4Gb and only 2.8 are shown in the task manager.
On the other hand, since the recent (most unfortunate) discovery that SLI is not compatible with dual monitor display and I prefer to keep the dual monitor, I just turned off SLI and crashes are gone. So there might also be a problem with my video card.

Well, I hope Dell solves everything in the near future :)

Anyhow thank you for the help.

Mortah

[Chorizotarian]

There might be something wrong with my memory because I have 4Gb and only 2.8 are shown in the task manager.

It sounds like you have a bad stick of RAM. If so there's no guarantee that all it's doing is failing benignly. You should poke around in your bios or using a tool like cpu-z to figure out which stick isn't working and try removing it. Bad hardware can have all kinds of non-intuitive effects.

[geoffdavison]

I run Vista on my main comp and XP on my box.. no issues..

[FOcast]

Thank you very much for your replies. I've been having quite few troubles with my machine and you're right the problem's not coming from keyclone.

There might be something wrong with my memory because I have 4Gb and only 2.8 are shown in the task manager.
Do you have a 32-bit version of Vista? A 32-bit OS can't recognize much more than 3 gigs of RAM, and some of that is going to be used by the OS itself. Vista 32-bit never going to use (or show) more than about 2.8Gb no matter how much you put in it.

[Anozireth]

The 3GB number is after the reserved amount used for IO addresses and such. Though it is true that the more RAM you have, the more the OS will use for itself. Even so, having 4GB over 2GB will result in more RAM available to your applications. Just not 2GB more.

[zanthor]

It's not 3GB as a hard line folks... it's 4GB minus whatever memory addressing is reserved for hardware... this varies by system specs.

I for example have 3.4gb, my backup server here at work only shows 3.1gb... etc.