Hello

Ive recently wiped my system to provide room for Norton Anti Virus - and now when trying to install Oblivion it seems I do not have enough memory left to even run setUp from the disk when trying to install.

Strange thing is that I then tried to install Armed Assault, which is another pretty big program, and setup activated fine (much more recent game tho).

I'm wondering, and thinking that Oblivion was the cause of my original issues of trying to get Norton Anti virus to work before wiping my system..

Im running Win Xp 32 bit, on a Dell Xps

Dual Core

2 gig Ram

3.0 ghz speed

Pentium 4

144 Gb hard drive/ 119 Gb free

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Just checked my systems current usage and found :


Processes : 49
Cpu usage : 0 - 9%
commit charge : 428m/ 3937m

Totals :

Handles : 14383
Threads : 604


Physical Memory :

Total : 2095196
Avaliable : 1459836
System cache : 1677824


Kernel Memory :

Total : 135212
Paged : 100300
NonPaged : 34916


Commit Charge :

Total : 436904
Limit : 4032380
Peak : 716208


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By looking at the Kernel usage and remaining space, I am suspecting that this is the issue. The kernel amount being used by Norton is likely most of the volume there. I dont know a whole ton about all of this, I'm not even sure why Oblivion would use kernel space rather than regular memory.

Just wondered if maybe anyone had any suggestions that might work to get the game running. Worst comes to worst I'll have to go without Oblivion, must have Norton running as its free with comcast and cannot afford to buy something else haha.

Tia

Consider Microsoft Security Essentials and get rid of Norton?

You made a pretty huge blunder with installing Norton onto your computer, I'm sorry to say. That program is a HUGE hassle to work with and almost impossible to remove from your computer. When it comes to memory problems, Norton is the prime contender, as it can easily eat up half your RAM on its own.

My suggestion: wipe your PC clean AGAIN (this is the only way to truly remove that malignant tumor of a program), get a new AV Suite (I would suggest AVG or MS Essentials, both are good quality and free), and try again.

I know you don't want to hear this, but that's the truth. Norton is a terrible AV program, end of story. If you want to game on your PC you cannot, cannot, cannot let Norton into your system. I cannot stress this enough, that program will utterly hamstring your performance.

Yes I am afraid that you will have to do what Thomas Kaira said, norton is the worst anti virus ever and SHOULD NOT be installed on a gaming PC ( best not on any PC btw)

Hey, and thanks guys for the responses.


I am reluctant to remove it, honestly its the only anti virus program I've ever had that actually picks up many tracking cookies, mcafee never did any good at that.

I'm going to have to mull this over, sounds like I may resort to removing it and resetting the system again. At least the god thing is I havent really installed much of anything since the restoration to factory defaults. Would have been kinda nice if Comcast just stuck with Mcafee, although I had to run seperate programs to get rid of spyware and tracking cookies, at least my system had no issues with it.

Thanks again guys

Well, there are ways to remove Norton from your computer without wiping your drive, but they require a lot of edits be made in the system registry, and if you do something wrong there, it will cause disaster.

Try googling how to fully remove Norton Antivirus and follow one of the posted guides (don't contact Symantec, they will not help you with this at all). Be very careful about your registry edits, and you should be okay. If not, well, I hope you are prepared to pick up the red phone on this one. :flamethrower:

Get CCleaner http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/ for that. It keeps track of any cookies that end up on your computer then deletes them on start up, unless you tell it you want something to be saved. It also gets rid of lots of non-essential files that build up on your computer, keeping things nice and clean. You can even use it for cleaning up your registry and for deleting unneeded Restore Points, which can eat up a fair amount of hard drive space after awhile. It's a great program and absolutely free.

Thank you for the info I can imagine haha.. I've tried to deal with Mcafee Cs before on the phone.. kinda reminds me of the commercial.. 'Hello.. My name Peggy.." lol

I'm just going to do a wipe, prolly this weekend, better safe than sorry, it shouldnt be too big of a deal.




Thank you for the link. I'll have to check that out for sure. I've always ran Spybot and AdAware along with Mcafee in the past, but I've never really looked for anything better for many years.


Thanks again guys.