Do you use a paging file and have 2GB or more of RAM?

[Bio_Terra]

Quite simple do you use a paging file and have 2GB or more of RAM?

[sknight]

Re: Do you use a paging file and have 2GB or more of RAM?

better safe than sorry

[Hephaistion]

Re: Do you use a paging file and have 2GB or more of RAM?

You do not need a paging file if you have 2GB+ RAM, I have been running Pageless for 8 months now, all is well.

[BurnTheWeed]

Re: Do you use a paging file and have 2GB or more of RAM?

Windows still uses a pagefile even if you try to turn it off, better to have at least a small one so certain programs that require it don't run into problems.

[Eden]

Re: Do you use a paging file and have 2GB or more of RAM?

Why wouldnt you? Give me one good reason to waist some of my ram on programs that could be better off in pagefile?

[Bio_Terra]

Re: Do you use a paging file and have 2GB or more of RAM?

Give me one good reason to waist some of my ram on programs that could be better off in pagefile?

the thing thats not the problem, the problem that windows isn't very good at deciding what u want and dont in the page file so may find things u want in ram end up in the page file

[Gunny Highway]

Re: Do you use a paging file and have 2GB or more of RAM?

The page file should ALWAYS be larger than your amount of physical RAM:

http://www.tweakhound.com/xp/virtualmemory.htm

HAVING A PAGE FILE THAT DOESN'T MATCH THE PHYSICAL MEMORY YOU HAVE IN USE WILL AT TIMES INHIBIT THE PAGING OF PRIVATE WRITABLE VIRTUAL ADDRESS SPACE AND FORCE THE UNNECESSARY UNLOADING OF POSSIBLY RECENTLY ACCESSED .DLLS AND .EXES!

USERS THAT ARE NOT SHORT OF HARD DRIVE SPACE SHOULD NEVER LOWER THE DEFAULT SETTINGS OF THE PAGE FILE.

Fact!

which is lnked from this page:

http://www.tweakhound.com/xp/xptweaks/supertweaks5.htm

1. The average user is best served by LEAVING THE PAGE FILE ALONE. XP does an excellent job of managing the page file settings for most people.

2. For 99.999% of the configurations on the planet you need a page file. XP itself wants one and a number of programs out there do too. (Please don’t email me to argue this, I won’t respond. Find a forum to argue about it.)

3. The recommendations below are not designed to give you the highest scores on a synthetic benchmark but to give you the best overall performance for your system (including stability). The size of hard drives today are huge and making the page file a little larger than it "needs" to be hurts nothing and you’re covered if you’re ever doing something that requires more.

Having no paging file or a paging file lower than your amount of RAM will impede memory management in XP.

[redearedslider]

Re: Do you use a paging file and have 2GB or more of RAM?

The page file should ALWAYS be larger than your amount of physical RAM:

http://www.tweakhound.com/xp/virtualmemory.htm

which is lnked from this page:

http://www.tweakhound.com/xp/xptweaks/supertweaks5.htm

Having no paging file or a paging file lower than your amount of RAM will impede memory management in XP.

im running at system control atm... i had it on 2000 mb min and 2000 mb max for a while, ran fine...

[abtomat74]

Re: Do you use a paging file and have 2GB or more of RAM?

Having no page file is bad.

You NEED some page file for everything. At least that what the experts say...which holds more water for me than just some guy who says his system runs fine without it.

Running fine is one thing, best is another.

[kaya]

Re: Do you use a paging file and have 2GB or more of RAM?

I got 2gb ballistix ddr500 and two 10k rpm wd raptors, one 7,2k rpm ide hdd and one 7,2k rpm sata hdd. And i have moved around my page file to different disks and i have tried different size on it and from my testing i have found out that my computer gets alot faster without a page file.

So for me having a page file is bad.

[Jofaba]

Re: Do you use a paging file and have 2GB or more of RAM?

It's a waste and will degrade peformance. Half or more of your page file information is never/rarely used. Pushing it into ram can make your system unstable, or at the very least it'll simply be filling up valuable ram space up with junk that's not even being used. If you're worried about your page file being accessed, then get a cheap low volume drive and put your page file on that. But still keep a few dozen megabytes on the same drive that your OS is on.

Please keep in mind that a lot of tips, tricks, registry hacks, and workarounds give extremely minimal boosts in peformance and that's if they do anything at all. Most of the time they cause more problems then they're worth, and usually the people don't even think whatever their problems are can be related to one of the hacks they did.

For example: Renaming your BF2 executable file. Numerous people have experienced problems with patches and expansion packs not being happy with you temporarily renaming it back, so a complete reinstall is needed.

Making BF2 run as high priority can slow down some computers. Anyway, forward programs are almost always categorized as a high priority by Windows XP (and maybe earlier versions, I'm not sure) but have the ability to float the priority which is necissary for some applications/ windows functions.

Even if you do every hack, use every beta or third party driver, rename every file, and load all your page file into your physical ram, you might notice a 5fps increase. If you're currently at 15fps and that brings you to 20, you're still getting bad peformance.

So as to not bet pummeled with rebukes, I am currently using beta drivers for my graphics card and sound card. I've experimented with every registry hack, tip, hint, etc and I'm going by my own experience and the experience of others. The best way to approach a "secret hack or trick" is to be leery and doubtful. Do a make a system restore point, do what you want to do, then test it against real world numbers. Frames per second, stutter, lag, blue screens, sluggish peformance. If you "think you can see a little peformance boost", then it's probably your imagination.

I'm just trying to save you a few hundred hours of frustration. I'm hoping some other people chime in their own experieneces of messing around with all these things and finally giving up and putting their time and effort into actual hardware upgrades.

PS, I know that a lot of registry hacks and "trade secrets/tips" actually DO help. But those are well known peformance boosters mainly for Windows and overall system stability, and less so direct game peformance fixes.

*sigh* but, let the flaming begin...

[-[MDS]-Stormy]

Re: Do you use a paging file and have 2GB or more of RAM?

Would any (or most of) those tweaks that you refer to be here,

http://www.tweakhound.com/xp/xptweaks/supertweaks11.htm

[Karl]

Re: Do you use a paging file and have 2GB or more of RAM?

Would any (or most of) those tweaks that you refer to be here,

http://www.tweakhound.com/xp/xptweaks/supertweaks11.htm

That site is awesome! Ive been trying out loads of computer tweaks on it in the past hour or so

[Jofaba]

Re: Do you use a paging file and have 2GB or more of RAM?

Also try tweakguides.com's twakguides tweaking companion. A couple hundred pages ebook for free. Awesome guide and very user friendly. Even links to free online programs to download.