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DaBears · 09-11-2016, 03:04 PM

Thank you both for the information. As I said, I am not a techie so you'll have to forgive me for simplistic answers. Your answer as well as the one below it make me realize there are likely two questions I am asking, totally unrelated. One, is a drive becoming more and more fragmented necessarily a bad thing, and two, is 2MB RAM enough on a machine to run OOTP and Windows 10 without causing issues?

Several things:
1. I did the default install and the game does seem to work well (other than my little 3D dudes running all over the place chasing balls that are in 20 rows up in the stands while the other team's little 3D dudes keep running around the bases!). I do not believe there is an issue with the game installation, so can likely set that aside.

2. On the "blew up" issue, not sure if that's the right term or not. The hard drive stopped working on a two-month old computer. Second time that has happened. I wondered if the low RAM was the cause as someone who does know a bit more than I do about computers mentioned it takes about 1 RAM to run the Windows system so if OOTP also requires 1 RAM, it was stretching the system. Not blaming OOTP, just curious if that computer does not have the oomph to run the game on it. I like that laptop as it weighs less than 3lbs and is easy to carry on planes. Just sent the laptop back to Lenovo and they replaced it, which is good, but would prefer not to ruin it if I'm trying to run too big a program.

3. My other, main, laptop is an HP with "AMD A-10-9600P RADEON R5, 10 COMPUTE CORES 4C+6G 2.40 Ghz. It has 6.00 GB RAM (5.59 useable), 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor". I know nothing of what that means but you asked for specifics and maybe that will help. The game is working fine on it and the computer has done fine (only a month old), so the main question there is whether I need to defrag or just let it be.

One tech question: Does fragmentation every stop? It seems to just keep going up, and it would seem like that is bad at some point. Maybe not.

Thank you both for your insights!

09-11-2016, 03:04 PM	#4
DaBears All Star Reserve Join Date: Jun 2013 Posts: 501	Thank you both for the information. As I said, I am not a techie so you'll have to forgive me for simplistic answers. Your answer as well as the one below it make me realize there are likely two questions I am asking, totally unrelated. One, is a drive becoming more and more fragmented necessarily a bad thing, and two, is 2MB RAM enough on a machine to run OOTP and Windows 10 without causing issues? Several things: 1. I did the default install and the game does seem to work well (other than my little 3D dudes running all over the place chasing balls that are in 20 rows up in the stands while the other team's little 3D dudes keep running around the bases!). I do not believe there is an issue with the game installation, so can likely set that aside. 2. On the "blew up" issue, not sure if that's the right term or not. The hard drive stopped working on a two-month old computer. Second time that has happened. I wondered if the low RAM was the cause as someone who does know a bit more than I do about computers mentioned it takes about 1 RAM to run the Windows system so if OOTP also requires 1 RAM, it was stretching the system. Not blaming OOTP, just curious if that computer does not have the oomph to run the game on it. I like that laptop as it weighs less than 3lbs and is easy to carry on planes. Just sent the laptop back to Lenovo and they replaced it, which is good, but would prefer not to ruin it if I'm trying to run too big a program. 3. My other, main, laptop is an HP with "AMD A-10-9600P RADEON R5, 10 COMPUTE CORES 4C+6G 2.40 Ghz. It has 6.00 GB RAM (5.59 useable), 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor". I know nothing of what that means but you asked for specifics and maybe that will help. The game is working fine on it and the computer has done fine (only a month old), so the main question there is whether I need to defrag or just let it be. One tech question: Does fragmentation every stop? It seems to just keep going up, and it would seem like that is bad at some point. Maybe not. Thank you both for your insights!