"hellhoundevil" <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > it definutly is not over heating the ram spikes from 30% usage > to 100% usage. and yea iv followed the instructions form thea No idea what is causing the ram usage to spike, but depending on the technology (and how good the RAM cooling is) the spike itself could be overheating the RAM. It might be worthwhile to run memtest86 or some such.