Team Fortress 2 : From 500,000K to 1,100,000 K

[343N]

My Team Fortress 2 went up from 500,000K to 1,100,000 K in usage while using Hammer, I don't know why, and ever since then my computer has been going as slow as FUCK!
Specs :
Intel E6300 @ 2.8GHz
Nvidia GT220
2gb DDR2 Ram
P5GC/1333 (or is it l333?)
Windows XP Professional SP2

[editline]04:36PM[/editline]

Also, my paged pool memory has been low too, and as I speak, I'm playing TF2, I think it's the same without hammer, but it fucks up my Firefox Personas..

[editline]04:38PM[/editline]

And it also fucks up TF2 too...

[Polite/Friendly]

Maybe try rebooting -_-

[343N]

Well, I'm not running Hammer right now, and with TF at its menu screens, it is at 272,000K...

[editline]04:46PM[/editline]

[QUOTE=Polite/Friendly;21072618]Maybe try rebooting -_-[/QUOTE]
And this happened a day or two ago, so of course I reboot it...

[editline]04:48PM[/editline]

Now, I'm in my map, and I got 1,100,000K again.. It's not this much usually...

[G-Strogg]

Pro-tip: If your RAM goes off the charts, DON'T use hammer and have tf2 open at the same time.

[DrMelon]

Also, your own map probably isn't optimised.

[PunchedInFac]

-increase the Paging file/Virtual memory and put the paging file in your fastest drive.
-Tf2 is allocated a "heapsize" which determines how much ram it takes up normally it shouldn't take more. you may have a lot of skins installed which may be the problem.

[Ub0nic]

why are you running tf2 and hammer at the same time? just quit out of tf2 when you want to work on your map.

[343N]

Well, yesterday, I wasn't in my map, and still got 1,100,00K, can it be because I got a shitload of maps?

[editline]10:57AM[/editline]

I got no skins...

[PunchedInFac]

[img]http://th01.deviantart.net/fs24/300W/i/2009/253/8/9/You_Are_Already_Dead_by_dafter_punk.png[/img]

Nostalgia'd

[Divaya]

[QUOTE=343N;21072522]My Team Fortress 2 went up from [B]500,000K to 1,100,000 K[/B] [/QUOTE]

500,000,000 to 1,100,000,000 what the fuck

I suggest putting your computer down.
Shotgun would be the best option.

[343N]

I just wanted a serious answer, not some sarcastic shit...

[unoriginalname]

Don't have tf2 and hammer open at the same time.

[belink]

If I remember correctly, there was a bunch of FPS configs which increased the heapsize amount using the "-heapsize" launch option for better performance.

Perhaps if you tried the same thing, but in reverse - set it to lower than what your actual RAM is so it uses less memory.

It's worth a shot, right?

Right click TF2 in Steam, hit Properties then Set Launch Options.

If you have 1GB RAM, enter "-heapsize 262144"
If you have 2GB RAM, enter "-heapsize 524288"

(heapsize is set in kilobytes if you couldn't tell)

Let me know how you get on.

[343N]

Okay, finally a non-sarcastic answer... thanks.

[343N]

Lets, just say, that made it worse... fuck.