Virtual ram for gaming: Warzone

[675409]

In windows you can allocate drive or ssd space to be used as virtual ram, I know that it is much slower than ram but I was wondering if this would give me a smooth experience in warzone as I am playing on 8gb of ddr3, just as a temporary solution till I buy more ram.

[DreamCat04]

19 minutes ago, 675409 said:

In windows you can allocate drive or ssd space to be used as virtual ram, I know that it is much slower than ram but I was wondering if this would give me a smooth experience in warzone as I am playing on 8gb of ddr3, just as a temporary solution till I buy more ram.

Windows does that on its own, it's called the page file. If you are at 98% RAM usage and a program wants to use more, it will start storing stuff on the page file. If this fills up too much, Windows will allocate more space to it. This can go on until your SSD is full. If Warzone ends up on your SSD, you are very likely going to lose some performance but I'd say Windows is going to move the unused programs to the page file before it moves part of Warzone there

[675409]

8 hours ago, DreamCat04 said:

Windows does that on its own, it's called the page file. If you are at 98% RAM usage and a program wants to use more, it will start storing stuff on the page file. If this fills up too much, Windows will allocate more space to it. This can go on until your SSD is full. If Warzone ends up on your SSD, you are very likely going to lose some performance but I'd say Windows is going to move the unused programs to the page file before it moves part of Warzone there

would it help to custom allocate more space

[LogicalDrm]

3 hours ago, 675409 said:

would it help to custom allocate more space

No. You can't control where pagefile gets used. Software are either coded to utilize it or they aren't. You can add space, but that's unlikely to fix any problems you might have unless you are already using most or all of pagefile. Default is same as your physical RAM amount.