Page File Size (Virtual Memory)

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• JD_Mortal Posts: 760

  February 2020

  Windows will fill it, no matter how large or small it is. Having it larger will simply allow for more things to be easily accessed, if needed. I know for a fact, that Daz will crash if you have NO virtual memory. (Because I had 64GB of RAM, I thought it was safe to disable it. It was, for everything except Daz, which, for some reason, depends on it actually existing. I am sure it doesn't depend on it to actually function, but it does have to exist. Maybe an unhandled error-check or something.)

  In any event, I let windows manage it. If it needs more, it will use it... unless it can't, then it simply uses less.

  There is one cool trick you can do, if you have a lot or RAM. You can use a portion of your RAM as virtual-memory, to make windows a tiny bit faster. (Only in those rare moments when it actually uses virtual-memory for something, other than stuffing it full of unused data.) It sounds like it defeats the purpose, right... Why use RAM for virtual-memory, when it should only be using it when you run out of RAM. Because that isn't when windows uses it. It uses it ALL THE TIME. Windows never gets near using all my RAM, ever... But not something you want to do if you only have 16GB of RAM. Then, there is a good chance that the swap-file is being used a lot more, with good reason.

   
• WendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,107

  February 2020 edited February 2020

  ironically I was messing around with my pagefile sizes today trying to get more RAM

  I only have 8GB and tried setting minimum to 8000Mb max to 30000Mb but my program I was using still ran out of RAM and crashed

  not DAZ studio another ArchVis rendering program I was loading a huge DAZ model into

  Post edited by WendyLuvsCatz on February 2020