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Increasing the virtual memory#. Will this have any effect on frame rates or what does it actualy does. I was just looking around and came accross it. just curious.

Virtual memory will not increase frame rates.
VM is a small portion of  your hard disc  that windows puts aside for emergency use so to speak.

One of our more technical members should be able to explain it better.

Virtual Memory seems to be all I have left  :)


I have found that it does help FS9 by increasing the amount of your page file (virtual memory) you want to have it set to your amount of RAM X 2 + 2

ex. 512 (RAM) X 2 + 2 = 1026

Uncetain why adding the 2 but I tried it after reading a XP quide sometime ago and it increased over all performace of all applications.

Give it a try and post your results.

I think your getting things wrong here, increasing the Virtual Memory or pagefile or swapfile as its known generally just wastes HD space and won't give much of a boost on systems with 512MB or More, on systems with less than 512MB, a pagefile is essential, its effectively what keeps your OS running once your physical RAM is full.

HMMM...

Conflicting stories, but yours does make sense somewhat.

When I increased my page file, I had only 256 MB Ram and noticed a great increase in performance. But I now have a Gig of RAM so I might not need a large page file although it doesn't hurt anything as for I have plenty of room still on the hard drive.

The XP tweaking guide I read from didn't go into as much detail about what the page file really does or how it works.
All I now was I got a big change from increasing it, and was happy, but I guess with a Gig of RAM it isn't doing much of anything now.

thanks guys i will give it a try

My small recommendation is to set the virtmem to 1.5 times your onboard memory.  I have 1GB memory and set my virtmem to 1536MB.

...I can't remember what I did with mine... ::)...!

(So much for Virtual Memory)... ... ...!

Paul....where am I... ...?

LOL...LOL...LOL...!

lol Fozzer, you know a lot mroe than you let on...

obviusly since you ended up with Jordan.. :-)

Once 1Gb RAM is installed, it's possible to see very small gains by having NO swap file!  That's right... NIL, NONE, ZERO......

Yeh, I know, I thought this sounded crazy too, but tried it anyway....

Wot a hoot, it worked. This forces the O/S to use RAM instead.

Wot a hoot, it worked. This forces the O/S to use RAM instead.

But wouldn't you want the O/S to use anything else besides the RAM? Especially while simming?

[quote]Once 1Gb RAM is installed, it's possible to see very small gains by having NO swap file!

But wouldn't you want the O/S to use anything else besides the RAM? Especially while simming?

No, as 1Gb is MORE than enough for both, and because all applications, including FS are also forced to use RAM.

I tried setting my swap to 0 but Win2k doesn't let me. It keeps making a 512MB swap file anyway. So much for getting what I want.

Joe

I can completely turn it off on my comp with no adverse effects.

I set it to 512 mb just in case some program does use up all my ram.