Fatal Error: could this work?

[Smok-Ti-Thun 93]

Well, I have a normal PC, nothing really fancy and I never had (till now) a fatal error.

Also my framerate is always between the 56-60 FPS.

 

I am using Mozilla Firefox as browser, but this browser normally also has, as I read in the Forum, the fatal error.

 

 

The only thing that is different at my PC is that I use my RAM to run my browser on, and not the standard Harddisk.

I will return to this later.

 

Recently I used Fraps (same like Banicam: videorecording software). And my framerate went immediately lower ánd after a while I got tremendous lag as well....

Than I found out that it is better to have a second harddisk where you record the gameplay.

You should not run your Operating System like Windows and Recording Software on the same disk.

Well to keep it short, I have two disks and when I used one for Windows and the other one for Fraps my framerate was back to normal again and I had no lag at all!

 

What I suspect now with the Fatal Error that it has something to do with two tasks that run at the same time on your PC.

One of these tasks has the harddisk involved: the history recording of your webbrowser (cache).

 

If you eliminate this, you eliminate a PC component, so one component less that can make troubles (fatal error?)

 

 

This was the introduction, underneath this chapter the possible solution. Be aware that I take no responsibility at all if things go wrong! This is sadly not suited for everyone!

You got to know a thing or two about PC 's and be a bit technical will help too.

My hope is there is someone who has the fatal errors and is willing to try this out. If it works by this person too, we might be getting somewhere!

 

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Here we go:

 

First we really need Mozilla Firefox! This browser is accesible because it is Open Source software.

 

Normally a webbrowser uses the harddisk to store the webbrowser history etc., we are going to change that so that

the browser Firefox will run only in our RAM memory.

 

RAM is a lot faster, you might notice this a little! The only difference with normal webbrowsing by harddisk is when you are in a session your RAM memory keeps track of your history (the webpages you have been etc.), but because it is "virtual" it all dissappears when you stop your browser. RAM can not store data!

 

So you can not trace back that nice webpage you have been two days ago. I do not mind that because I never used it, and a benefit is that your harddisk (PC) stays a lot cleaner! And cleaner means often faster and less troubles.

 

So when I run a PC-cleaner like CCleaner there is not a lot to throw in the bin, nice.

 

Your browser is further competely the same. You can make bookmarks, favorites and all the normal stuff, because this still gets written on your PC. So if you had put that nice webpage from two days ago on a bookmark, you can still visit it again!

 

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Now the technical stuff and the actual steps you have to follow:

 

Step 1

Open Firefox and type "about:config" (without quotes here and in subsequent commands) into the browser's address bar. The address bar is where the Web address or URL of the site you're visiting appears.

 

Step 2

Type "browser.cache" into the Search field that appears under the address bar. This will make the browser look for characteristics of its cache settings that can be changed.

 

Step 3

Find the entry entitled "browser.cache.disk.enable" in the main display area of the browser below the Search field and double-click it to change the value to false.

 

Step 4

Double-click on the "browser.cache.memory.enable" setting to change it to true if it isn't already. The hard disk cache is turned off and the memory cache is turned on.

 

Step 5

Right-click anywhere in the screen that displays the cache configuration options. Click "New" from the context menu that appears, and then select "Integer" from the secondary context menu.

 

Step 6

Enter "browser.cache.memory.capacity" in the dialog box that pops up and press the "OK" button to submit it.

 

Step 7

Enter either "128000" or "-1" in the new dialog box that pops up and press "OK." That sets the size of your memory cache; for example, 128000 will allocate 128MB of your computer's memory to act as a cache for the browser. Entering "-1" lets Firefox choose the size of its cache depending on your computer's installed RAM capacity. You can also enter other cache sizes in kilobytes.

 

Step 8

Close every Firefox tab and window to shut the browser down completely, and then double-click the browser's icon to restart it.

 

 

Hope somebody tries this out and even more so that it is a possible solution.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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