Solved.

[ybriK]

Solved.

 

[Alibaladin]

SSD or HDD?

[ybriK]

SSD or HDD?

C: = SSD

E: = HDD

[Alibaladin]

C: = SSD

E: = HDD

Turn off Paging File. Don't bother about it since OS is in SSD.

[LogicalDrm]

It doesn't matter where the pagefile is. Windows will know when and how to use it. What comes to ram requirements. Using pagefile to assist ram helps to speed up things. But it doesn't work as replacement. What I'm noticed that when I have 75% of RAM in use, at same time I have 25% of pagefile in use (8gb ram, 16gb of pagefile).

[GoodBytes]

Turn off Paging File. Don't bother about it since OS is in SSD.

NEVER disable the pagefile. This is absolutely the worst advice you can give. It will lead to memory open space fragmentation, meaning the user will have space on the RAM for a program, but can't use it, as the free space is not available in 1 junk (process in RAM is never fragmented, everything remains in 1 block). In addition, it can lead to program unexpected crash due to lack of memory available next to the process in memory, making people lose work, even corrupt save work, especially if it crashes when you save.

In addition, it has nothing to do if you have an SSD or HDD. Pagefile allows Windows (or any popular OS, as they all work the same), in open space defragmengation, and extends RAM.

As LogiCalDim said, the page file can be anywhere, just say to Windows where you want it, and Windows will take care of everything for you.

The pagefile is not for your drive it is for your RAM. You have 1 set of RAM in your system (even if it's multiple stick of RAM, it is a set, all together), so you have 1 page file.

[SlayerOfHellWyrm]

 

Let's say a computer has 4GB of RAM and the video game the user wants to play requires 2GB of RAM. The video game is installed on a separate drive which is E: while the OS is installed on C:. The paging file is ONLY set to the C: drive with an allocation of 2GB. However the background processes take up 3GB of RAM, what will happen when the video game is executed? Will it eventually crash? Or Will it start "eating up" the virtual memory set on the C: drive?

 

NOTE: These background processes are installed in C: drive.

 

Windows will try to move as many programs from RAM, that haven't been used in a while, into the page file. If it still cannot make up the room required, then you will have Windows start paging RAM contents, which will affect game performance. It's important to note that by default, Windows sets the page file to a system determined max, so the more RAM needed, the more paging will happen if you need it, and the larger the file will be, but, it will always return to the minimum size of 1.5x your RAM when it can. Now, having your page file on C;, while you're playing your game on E: will help slightly with the paging, as you'll be accessing the page file, from a separate disc from which the game is running, insteaad of trying to do both on the same disc.

 

As GoodBytes said, never disable paging. You'll end up with severe memory errors, and worse yet, windows will crash quite often

Just in case it wasn't made clear btw, paging is a way of freeing up RAM/giving the system the illusion of more RAM. Essentially, programs that haven't been used in a while, will be shuffled from RAM, into the page file, until they are needed again. If you sit at 100% RAM use, and still need more, Windows will start shuffling data from RAM, to the page file, and back again, as needed, to try and compensate. The problem with that, is heavy paging, seriously degrades system performance, because moving something to the page file, and then back out, is far slower (since it uses either an SSD, or HDD depending where the page file is set to be) than RAM.

Having the page file on a dedicated SSD will give you the best paging performance possible, but really, you should upgrade your RAM to a higher capacity, if you can. You want to minimize forced/active paging of data that's supposed to be used now, as oppsed to say, paging iTunes because you haven't used it in several hours, but, it's still open (this is why you get a slight delay to starting a song when iTunes has sat for a while)

[GoodBytes]

You are correct. But the paging has been somewhat modified since Vista. XP was putting everything it could in page file as you describe, since Vista it's RAM first. if you have space on your RAM it won't bother with anything. This has to do with the limited amount memory available at the time (let alone high price).

 

However, you are better off with the pagefile on your SSD than on an HDD separate drive. Your SSD is vastly superior (assuming you got a decent SSD, of course.)