Windows Vista 64bits, 4GB RAM no page file

Arg no don't disable the page file, loads of older applications need it to run and the difference you may gain in speed, I say may will be so negligible anyway. Just not worth the effort.

As to not overclocking, that is like going to buy a 2 bed bed house and someone offering you the 3 bed next door for the same money and you saying no.
 
Just leave the page file alone, let Windows do it's own thing. We are talking about a game which was released 5 years ago, it probably wont make much of a dent on a modern systems RAM!

You said you've just reloaded your machie Vista Ultimate, what were you running before? Did you go to Vista because Civ4 wont run on 7 or because you are trying to save resources?

You havent actually explained why you dont want Windows accessing the hard drive?
 
J.B said:
Just leave the page file alone, let Windows do it's own thing. We are talking about a game which was released 5 years ago, it probably wont make much of a dent on a modern systems RAM!

You said you've just reloaded your machie Vista Ultimate, what were you running before? Did you go to Vista because Civ4 wont run on 7 or because you are trying to save resources?

You havent actually explained why you dont want Windows accessing the hard drive?
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If he is trying to save resources he should be running Windows 7 :p

To the OP, I hope you have made your page file Windows managed.
 
madindehead said:
If he is trying to save resources he should be running Windows 7 :p
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Thats why I was asking! The OP isnt entirely clear why Vista has been chosen. It might just be he went from Vista 32 to 64 which is fair enough but I wouldnt be surprised if it was infact from 7 to Vista! :eek:
 
Burnsy2023 said:
It confuses me to why you wouldn't let Windows manage it in the first place.
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Because if I'm not doing a full crash dump I don't need a 6GB+ page file for my usage. I did what the article suggests, open all the apps that I use at one time and set my page file minimum to the max amount of memory being used and then set the max page file to double that.
 
I've tried but it's not simple. I do not want the hard disk to keep on whirling I guess the access to the swap file is the main cause of that.
 
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Reza86 said:
Arg no don't disable the page file, loads of older applications need it to run.
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Yet another myth I'm afraid.

No applications, not even the stereotypical Page File Hogger "Adobe Photoshop" has a line of code in them along the lines of: "if (pagefile = disabled) then start(random_error_message_timer)"

Disabling the page file is just about the worst thing you can do to your PC.
 
Peter Tsang said:
I've tried but it's not simple. I do not want the hard disk to keep on whirling I guess the access to the swap file is the main cause of that.
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Could be Superfetch or Windows Search. Both of which will settle down after a week or two of use, if it's a fresh install of Windows.

The page file doesn't really cause frequent disk access unless you're close to the maximum of committed memory.
 
NathanE said:
Yet another myth I'm afraid.

No applications, not even the stereotypical Page File Hogger "Adobe Photoshop" has a line of code in them along the lines of: "if (pagefile = disabled) then start(random_error_message_timer)"

Disabling the page file is just about the worst thing you can do to your PC.
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I have a very old game that will crash on start if you don't have a pagefile :)

I let Windows manage mine now. Can't say I noticed any difference to managing it myself.
 
Apart from developer situations, there is absolutely no need to turn the page file off. Just another geek urban myth in the quest for performance.
 
NathanE said:
Could be Superfetch or Windows Search. Both of which will settle down after a week or two of use, if it's a fresh install of Windows.

The page file doesn't really cause frequent disk access unless you're close to the maximum of committed memory.
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I've been suspecting that for some time now. My observation is that after disabling a large number of services, I can install Civilization 4 Complete in 4 minutes which used to take nearly 15 minutes before. Installing Opera browser took about an instant which used to be say 10 minutes before.

These services are horrible but if you consider that a Vista installed machine can be used as a kind of server within a local area network, then there is not a concerned and all those services which I've disabled are still needed to be there.

Anyhow, I'm happy now. I placed the swapfile back and it's doing well.
 
I have 8gb Ram and I have my paging file set to min/max 3gb on my SSD. I have never seen any issues.

Vista is a resource hog, im surprised that you haven't moved over to Win7 which is far better.

Theres a lot of resources that are not needed if your just playing games. I'm surprised that no one here hasn't wrote a batch file to turn off many services when playing games. I have one for stopping IIS, and SQL servers when I'm not doing any development work.
 
djkav said:
I have 8gb Ram and I have my paging file set to min/max 3gb on my SSD. I have never seen any issues.

Vista is a resource hog, im surprised that you haven't moved over to Win7 which is far better.

Theres a lot of resources that are not needed if your just playing games. I'm surprised that no one here hasn't wrote a batch file to turn off many services when playing games. I have one for stopping IIS, and SQL servers when I'm not doing any development work.
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Yes, could you point me to some resources as to how to write batch command to close services? Thanks!
 
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