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[General Solo]

Mmm, these days things are a little different coz RAM is cheap and plentiful.

I mean if you have 32GB of RAM why make a 32GB pagefile your system will never use.
If the system don't run out of RAM the pagefile is rarely if ever used.

As long as your system has available memory it shouldn't page.
Free Memory can be checked in Task Manager>PeformanceTab>Physical Memory>Free

For most people just let windows look after Virtual Memory.
If your Rig meets the games system requirements, Virtual Memory will have little to no impact on MWO

On my PC which has 32GB of RAM I set the pagefile to 4096MB Minimum and Maximum as resizing the pagefile on the fly puts extra load when your system is already loaded through paging.

But its a moot point as with 32GB of RAM I never page as far as I can tell.

Only reason I have a pagefile at all is for backward compatibility with some programs, just in case.

Edited by OZHomerOZ, 07 August 2020 - 08:34 PM.

[General Solo]

I think you miss the point/purpose of a page file

A systems CPU needs space in RAM to work, if it runs out of space in RAM to work it will crash.

Purpose of the page file is to ensure the computer don't run out of memory/RAMM which would cause it to crash.
So the OS swaps unused stuff to much slower permanent storage, to free up RAM to prevent running out.

So if you never run out of RAM, have excess RAM a page file is used little.
Doh now days with MSFS 2020 coming out even 32 may not be enough.
And if you page yo page file while in that game it will chugg more than it does already.

If fact you don't wanna page in any game if you don't want it to chug bad.

As for crash dump, I can't remember the last time I seen a blue screen of death in Windows.
And using a crash dump to fix something is for IT people not regular users.

So if you meet the games system specs you should not page and so the page file will have no influence.

Also, lastly, take a PC with 32GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD, using the 1.5 x formula the page file in this case is 48GB which is 18% of the space on that 256GB SSD.

Thats a lot of space on the SSD mostly sitting idle, which could be storing games, apps, movies,music, data etc instead.

Edited by OZHomerOZ, 06 September 2020 - 04:36 AM.

[Nesutizale]

I think I still got an old 64GB SSD lying around. Does anyone know how to use it as "RAM" or at least to put all the TEMP files on there? Is that even a good idea?

[VeeOt Dragon]

since you folks are talkin graphics cards i have a question, will the game run on a GeForce GTX 1060 (i have the 6gb one)? recently (used some of my Stimulus check, so it was sometime in the spring) upgraded to it as it was the best card i could get at the time that would work with my power supply.


(i use an thumb drive, 8gb, as VRAM on mine. its really easy to set up but off hand i forget how. i remember it was just a matter of a couple of clicks)

Edited by VeeOt Dragon, 22 October 2020 - 05:12 AM.

[chevy42083]

It'll run on a gtx 770, according to the min requirements.
A gtx 1070 is the preferred/max recommended card... you're almost there.

[VeeOt Dragon]

thanks i would have gotten a better card when i upgraded but i have an off the shelf PC so not the greatest power supply