Looking to upgrade RAM. Question?

Hi,

I've just came back to CoH and have been experiencing "not responding" errors where the game freezes and when I go the the task manager says "city of heroes - not responding" then I have to restart the game. This only happens if I am playing on the 3rd graphics settings, if I put it down to the 2nd graphic settings (worse graphics) then it doesnt crash. Also the crashing is usually happeens in big teams such as trials, ship raids, Hami, tf's so this is why I'm thinking that my laptop is running out of memory. I currently have 4 gbs of ddr3 1333mhz memory and it's also equipped with a 1gb ati video card and an i5 processor. So this is my question, can I buy this: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...179&CatId=4153 and then put that in my laptop and the crashing should go away? I'm running win7 x64 so my system will read the extra memory. This memory also has the same exact specs (size/speed) as my currently memory.

So, what's the verdict? Thanks

First, you are using an ATI card. Some of the recent past drivers weren't playing nice with CoH.

What drivers set are you using? If it is between 11.5 and 11.8, I'd strongly recommend trying the 11.9 released just yesterday.

Have you got the NCSoft Launcher set to quit after launching the game? It's had a fair few memory leaks that can cause issues with the game if it stays running.

I did upgrade to 11.9 and still have the problems. The launcher exits after I launch and also I have steam/other programs exited/shutdown also. It leads me to think that it's the ram because if I alt-tab out of CoH and open my Internet browser then go back into the game it's either in it's "not responding" state or it will crash in the next 30 seconds. It's only if I play on higher graphics settings instead of lower but if I am playing on lower and then launch my browser, it tends to crash.

Does your laptop have free expansion slots? A lot will have some or all of the RAM surface mounted, which means you can't swap it out for new stuff, only add to it.

The RAM you linked to is fine, assuming you can remove all the existing RAM from your laptop and put in the new stuff.

It's tough to say without knowing what brand and model notebook you have.

Also I can't remember when the last time I saw a notebook with the memory soldered in, other than an Apple, since they don't believe the owner should be able to even change the battery in one of their laptops, much less swapping out the memory or the hard drive. Of course on the other hand eliminating access doors and standard SODIMM and SATA connectors means Apple's notebooks can be "wafer thin".