8gb ram on vista, turn off PF?

warup89 · Apr 7, 2008

well i have 8gb of ram and like the most i used was like 40% of it during crysis, so i dont know if it would be a good idea to turn off Page file [i think thats what is called] off.

EviLZeD · Apr 7, 2008

yes its page file but its recommended to leave it alone i think it helps the OS

Polaris573 · Apr 7, 2008

There is no advantage to turning it off, so unless you are really short on space I would leave it on. Some tests were run a while ago, I think on these forums even, showing that with a large amount of RAM disabling the page file still resulted in reduced performance, although that was with 4GB not 8GB.

warup89 · Apr 7, 2008

nice to know :eek:

trog100 · Apr 7, 2008

crysis dosnt use much ram relatively speaking.. it wouldnt run properly on 2 gig systems if it did.. but there is no gain except in hardrive space in turning the pagefile off.. windows dosnt use it until it has to.. with 8 gigs it aint likely to have to..

why people continue to think widows uses its very slow hardrive memory when it has plenty of the real stuff to work with i am buggered if i know.. luckily it aint that stupid..

trog

Solaris17 · Apr 7, 2008

i shut mine off i have 4gigs.

i tweaked vista to have minimal amounts of ram usuage..page file is off thats a fresh restart with everything laoded i normally use you can see i extended the task bar at the bottom to show you. if you look at my ram usage im idling at ~980mb with all that loaded and this was taken a good 5min after i logged in cause i had to take a crap...so theirs no jip .

ntdouglas · Apr 7, 2008

Solaris17 said:
i shut mine off i have 4gigs.

i tweaked vista to have minimal amounts of ram usuage..page file is off thats a fresh restart with everything laoded i normally use you can see i extended the task bar at the bottom to show you.

I see you have Far Cry on your desktop. I had heard Far Cry won't work on a x64 os. Is that a mod you did, or did I hear wrong?

Solaris17 · Apr 8, 2008

boots right up for me patch 1.4(still old)...dont even need to run it in compatibility..

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