memory manager..sims2

Sims2 require at lest 256megs to run and if the system as only 512megs and you also have Microsoft Office 2003 and/or Norton application you will need to upgrade the ram. virtual memory can not be turned off out side of it self so therefore The reason is that when programs ask for an allocation of Virtual memory space, they may ask for a great deal more than they ever actually bring into use ? the total may easily run to hundreds of megabytes. These addresses have to be assigned to somewhere by the system. If there is a page file available, the system can assign them to it ? if there is not, they have to be assigned to RAM, locking it out from any actual use.

It may sometimes happen that the system give ?out of memory? messages on trying to load a program, or give a message about Virtual memory space being low. Possible causes of this are:

The setting for Maximum Size of the page file is too low, or there is not enough disk space free to expand it to that size.

The page file has become corrupt, possibly at a bad shutdown. In the Virtual Memory settings, set to ?No page file,? then exit System Properties, shut down the machine, and reboot. Delete PAGEFILE.SYS (on each drive, if more than just C:), set the page file up again and reboot to bring it into use.

The page file has been put on a different drive without leaving a minimal amount on C:.

There is trouble with third party software. In particular, if the message happens at shutdown, suspect a problem with Symantec?s Norton Live update, for which there is a fix posted here. It is also reported that spurious messages can arise if NAV 2004 is installed. If the problem happens at boot and the machine has an Intel chipset, the message may be caused by an early version (before version 2.1) of Intel?s ?Application Accelerator.? Uninstall this and then get an up-to-date version from Intel?s site.

Possibly there is trouble with the drivers for IDE hard disks; in Device Manager, remove the IDE ATA