Allocating Ram Question?

[paulyron]

Someone suggested this to me.  Thoughts on this and do most people do this?  If it matters my default seem to be around 4864mb or so as default and this person said you should make it 80000mb because I have 32gb ram.  That person tell me they do this with every computer of theirs.  Do I make it 80000mb and see if it make a difference?  They said because my laptop crashes a lot, this could maybe fix it or this has nothing to do with it?

 

 

Go into: My Computer/Advanced System Properties


Click on the "Advanced" Tab


In the "Performance" box, click on "Settings"


In the "Perfomance Options" window click on the "Advanced" Tab.


In the "Virtual Memory" box click on the "Change" button to set a custom size for your virtual memory.


Click on "Custom Size"


Set both the "Initial Size" and the "Maximum Size" to an amount about 2.5 times the size of your RAM. So if you have 16 GB of RAM, enter 40000 MB in both windows or if you have 32 GB of RAM in your laptop you can set them both to 80000 MB.


I do this on all my Windows computers because I am running so many programs at one time that I want to make sure my PC doesn't slow down if the swap file size is too small...so I always set the swap file size to a much bigger size than Windows recommends.

[Levent]

It is not allocating ram, it is changing the size of pagefile. Leave it at automatic, if your computer is running slow and you got 32G of ram, your issue is something else.

[paulyron]

Okay so you say don't bother changing anything here?  My issue here is i play online poker and my laptop crashes a lot.  I get black screen for few seconds and the bottom task bar disappears for minutes.  Then it later comes back minutes later.

 

 

So does making these changes as that person suggest... is there any harm in it?  Could it make things worst?  Or maybe it might improve?

[Stormseeker9]

7 minutes ago, paulyron said:

Okay so you say don't bother changing anything here?  My issue here is i play online poker and my laptop crashes a lot.  I get black screen for few seconds and the bottom task bar disappears for minutes.  Then it later comes back minutes later.

 

 

So does making these changes as that person suggest... is there any harm in it?  Could it make things worst?  Or maybe it might improve?

It won’t improve it.

 

have you checked the temps of your laptop? Considered decluttering it from software you don’t need anymore?

 

what are your specs?

[paulyron]

How do i check my laptop temperature?  Never done that.  But I do notice it does get hot though but its on table all the time.

 

What do you mean declutter it from software i don't use anymore?

 

Old xps 15 9550

 

i5-6300hq

1tb nvme ssd

32gb ram

intel hd graphics 530 

nvidia geforce gtx 960m

 

 

There is however lot of dust on the keyboard and its been there for a long time.  The reason is because where im located, its very humid so i believe that might have caused it even though its used inside with 2 external monitors.