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Bill Drayton Jr.
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More memory ploy?

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from Microsoft? I have four fricken gigs of memory and I run out making a stupid five minute movie? What the hell? Yes it was using the Windows Movie Maker so I expected something lame to happen but now I am tempted to upgrade to 8GB...and that will be good for what? another 5 minutes? retarded...
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8 is enough for me. However, I don't make movies. If I did, I don't know that I'd use Windows Movie Maker. :D
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Yeah, I would probably use Final Cut Pro or something if I was actually doing this all the time but since I am too lazy to torrent anything anymore I thought maybe WMM could actually work...and it does...but barely...
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Wow...so this is totally ridiculous...I can reliably put my vista box into a horribly slow state by using windows media player and photoshop together. It's so bad that the video card driver fails until the hard drive swapping finishes and then driver recovers. Memory comes back very slowly with CPU usage for 1 cpu pegged and another utilized with two just idle.

Shouldn't Vista be able to handle memory swaps? It almost dies when I run out.
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I've never seen this with 4 or 8, but I've never run those two items together specifically.
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UPPED MEMORY TO 8GB!!!! w00t!!!!

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But now it's worse!!!! Go Microsoft!

This is actually really bad. When I get to playing the sub 5 minute movie from within movie maker in full screen it starts skipping really really badly. I thought when I added 4GB more it would go away but instead it completely uses all available memory down to 60MB and then the screen starts flashing black. When I force vista to kill Movie Maker none of the memory comes back - so you think shutting down would fix it but instead the machine completely locks up and you can do nothing. Pretty amazing failure.
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heh, a little web searching reveals that windows movie maker has had a major memory leak since XP SP3...dunno how I exposed it. The new windows movie maker has some new features though! Features are always better than stability.
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