Extend SSD lifespan and improve PC performance - for free

[kasdashd]

If you have a lot of RAM, you can disable virtual memory in Windows. This uses your SSD as RAM, if you run out of RAM, but also just in general. 

 

And since SSD's are much slower than RAM, this can really slow down your PC performance when you run out of RAM, og just whenever the system decides to swap to your SSD at random. 

 

You can read online about how to disable virtual memory, and if this is something you should actually do in your specific situation, but I have 64gb of RAM, and it never fills up completely, so I have disable this feature.

 

But if your PC starts freezing or crashing, you should of course turn this feature back on again.

[MadAnt250]

25 minutes ago, kasdashd said:

If you have a lot of RAM, you can disable virtual memory in Windows. This uses your SSD as RAM, if you run out of RAM, but also just in general. 

 

And since SSD's are much slower than RAM, this can really slow down your PC performance when you run out of RAM, og just whenever the system decides to swap to your SSD at random. 

 

You can read online about how to disable virtual memory, and if this is something you should actually do in your specific situation, but I have 64gb of RAM, and it never fills up completely, so I have disable this feature.

 

But if your PC starts freezing or crashing, you should of course turn this feature back on again.

How about buy a good SSD with a DRAM cache and stop keeping the capacity full or near full on the SSD.

[Kilrah]

If you have a lot of RAM it's completely unnecessary to disable swap since it'll barely be used. If you don't... well you'll probably need it, so...

[kasdashd]

Both these posts are true, but I just wanna make 100% sure that the SSD is NEVER used for swap, to prevent even the smallest performance drops or frametime disruptions. Cause framerate means nothing compared to frametimes input lag, how the game actually feels. More CPU cores don’t get you more fps, but they make the game run smoother, loads faster, assuming single speed is the same when comparing, and you can multitask a lot more while gaming, since it’s a PC and not a console.

[Mark Kaine]

no that doesn't make sense, virtual memory won't shorten a ssds lifespan enough for that to be worth it... additionally some programs need virtual memory to function so that also doesn't make this a good idea - sure,  if it works for you, cool, but generally people should just leave virtual memory alone,  Windows is very good at managing this by itself,  its not rocket science (thanks, dave! )

 

5 hours ago, kasdashd said:

Both these posts are true, but I just wanna make 100% sure that the SSD is NEVER used for swap, to prevent even the smallest performance drops or frametime disruptions. Cause framerate means nothing compared to frametimes input lag, how the game actually feels. More CPU cores don’t get you more fps, but they make the game run smoother, loads faster, assuming single speed is the same when comparing, and you can multitask a lot more while gaming, since it’s a PC and not a console.

 

yes, but the problem is,  this *will* worsen your performance if you believe it or not...