Hdd or ram lag making games stutter!

Batigol79 · 26 Feb 2010 at 22:31

Ok when i play my steam games they lag badly when hdd is being read. Ive been told by a friend that I could change the virtual memory (page file) to solve this problem. Could someone please help me or give some info. This issue is making me crazy. Thanks....

PS I have 4 gb of ram. windows 7 64.

Kotu · 26 Feb 2010 at 23:08

make sure write caching is enabled on the drive and its running at the right UDMA mode.

would also help to run the resource monitor in the background so you can see what the hard drive is doing.

Batigol79 · 26 Feb 2010 at 23:25

I need to know what initial and maximum size to use in mb, just tryd initial 1000 and maximum 5000 and stutter in avp3 seems to have gone completly. Please could a more advanced user assist me? dont want to screw this up. thanks...

KnightsWhoSayNi · 26 Feb 2010 at 23:32

The standard is normally 1.5 times your ram. You could set both initial and maximum to 6gb. This would prevent the page file being resized when the initial size is exceeded

Batigol79 · 26 Feb 2010 at 23:36

KnightsWhoSayNi said:
The standard is normally 1.5 times your ram. You could set both initial and maximum to 6gb. This would prevent the page file being resized when the initial size is exceeded

Thanks for help so far guys.

G J · 26 Feb 2010 at 23:37

Can i ask if this might be a steam and/or a certain game thats causing issues?

Also do games outside steam run ok?

Batigol79 · 26 Feb 2010 at 23:46

All games but steam games more so, So far changes to virtual memory seem to have solved problem (I hope), about to take KnightswhosayNi's advice and change initial and max to 6gb, but just finishing install of mw2 1st. Because changes will require a reboot.

Batigol79 · 26 Feb 2010 at 23:49

Any other advice would be great as this problem has been killing my enjoyment of new pc. I always known that my 5850 was not the problem.

buttkinz · 27 Feb 2010 at 01:09

try to adjust the page file to be the same size as your ram, so 4gb ram=4000mb pagefile size, always good to set it after an install of windows so its not fragmented

hope this helps

Batigol79 · 28 Feb 2010 at 14:02

buttkinz said:
try to adjust the page file to be the same size as your ram, so 4gb ram=4000mb pagefile size, always good to set it after an install of windows so its not fragmented hope this helps

Thanks, Ive put max to 4000mb so any idears what its best to put initial at?