VIRTUAL MEMORY

[Bruce]

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.

[eno]

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.

[Politically Incorrect]

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.

[4_Series_Scania]

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.

[Politically Incorrect]

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.

[Bruce]

thanks guys i will give it a try

[Skittles]

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.

[Fozzer]

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

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

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

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

[Jared]

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

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

[philsymonds]

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.

[Politically Incorrect]

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?

[4_Series_Scania]

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

[philsymonds]

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.

[Skittles]

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

[the_autopilot]

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.