Sorry Kgkev. I'm away from home on work in a different nation, and my OS keyboard has stopped working here, so I couldn't look into any matter or reply. Further, the screen is only appearing at 640x480 16-bit resolutions, so I have much trouble elsewhere to take care of meanwhile, first and foremost my work and the computer. There are many "free-er" daily members on here, I'm sure someone kind enough would help when they see the thread when I can't get back. (if they can).
Believe me, it's horrendous to even view an attachment without any tools - that
many problems.
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The page file was changed to that size as recommended in the link in my first post.
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That's fine. Keep the pagefile - restore it back to around 1GB, you need it, especially when movie editing. The only reason to remove the page file is when you have RAM which is more than sufficient for your needs. Often in the region of >2GB.
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It seems strange that it uses the page file as the system doesn't get to 512MB (as far as I can see)
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Your screenshot in the original post showed peak RAM usage of
911MB and 'current' RAM usage near the 903MB mark, so it was certainly fully used - overflowing into the pagefile more like.
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I have taken screens shots at various stages and the Ram gets upto 222,000 which should still be OK as I have 512mb
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In the 90 second interval screenshot, your total RAM usage is at 515MB, 36 processes running and CPU usage at 77%. That will definitely make your system slow down to a crawl (freeze).
But Moviemaker was only acquiring 57% of your CPU usage and 3% to Windows Explorer - where was the rest of the 17% going? (unseen in the image). Also can you expand the window down (drag it down) and then take a screenshot so that we can see all/most of the processes please. As yet, there are many not observable in the images.
When you run such heavy applications, such as video editing on those system specs, you
really needn't have anything other running for it to run adequately. You need to have the very minimum extra's running. Extra's such as Firefox, AOL, Hello, MSPaint and Cobian.
Depending on the movie size, 200MB RAM usage by Moviemaker is nothing unusual at all. By time, it will grow in size along with the growth of the file size. The minute you close it, all will go back to normal in an adequate system.
Again, at the 4 minute interval, your RAM usage for moviemaker is 178MB and total RAM usage is 552MB. This is expected. Mine go over the 1.5GB barrier when during movie recording and editing playback.
However, you have 25% CPU usage by Moviemaker and the rest, apart from 5%, is not visible in the screen capture. What was using up the 32%/62% CPU usage at that time?
The Performance tab shows that your CPU usage is 81% which is high. Your RAM usage is 549MB 'current' but the peak RAM usage in the session (since you started) was 690MB - the page file usage is at 54MB.
Later, Moviemaker gets to 222MB of RAM usage - again, this is nothing unusual at all for such applications, but you have 48%/71% CPU usage by Moviemaker, but no sign of what else is using the rest of the 23%. This is what we need to capture.
In short, there is no way to "movie make" with little or below 1GB of RAM - it is very troublesome. But you also have many other applications opened, which is exasperating the situation.
Click on the 'CPU' label bar under Processes to sort the items by CPU usage. When you have the highest users at top in descending order, take a screenshot and attach it back please.
Also, run another test by closing
everything but Moviemaker and the security software/s. Then see how the capturing goes.
Be sure to post back if you have any queries.