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up2nogooduk

up2nogooduk

up2nogooduk

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Guys, could you tell me how to fix this problems please?

Only started happening few days ago. don't matter what i do, games also.
Any ideas how to fix this?
I have 16G of ram. never seen this problem before.
The pc crashes a lot now.

Cheers.


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System managed or custom (min 1GB might be a good place to start, max whatever you feel like, if you've not encountered this stuff before then probably you don't need much so maybe up to 4GB) - and if you've never gone there before then you either have a mate who's tweaked some settings and caused this issue who shouldn't do it again or have used some 'optimisation' tool that is written by someone keen but slightly optimistic.
 
David Bisset said:
System managed or custom (min 1GB might be a good place to start, max whatever you feel like, if you've not encountered this stuff before then probably you don't need much so maybe up to 4GB) - and if you've never gone there before then you either have a mate who's tweaked some settings and caused this issue who shouldn't do it again or have used some 'optimisation' tool that is written by someone keen but slightly optimistic.
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Hi,

Thanks for that.
Just a quick write up, could u explain what the idea of this page files about?

I built many pc's but have never come across this tweak before?

Thanks ;)
 
The page file is used by the OS primarily when it runs out of RAM - it puts some little used info from RAM onto disk to free up space for something more important. By default windows has a page file - so yours has been turned off by someone or something.

The problem is, people think 'I've got plenty RAM so don't need a page file' but this is not necessarily true. Some programs, particularly ones that were written at times when memory limits were tighter, would write information directly to the page file if they knew this information would be little used. Other programs would have checks to ensure there was a certain amount of page file free in case they needed it, and so on. As a result, turning it off isn't a good idea.

On why people turn it off: They think that they've got enough memory for everything they want to run (possibly true) and that windows will move stuff they want to the page file rather than keep it in memory (unlikely if the first point was true) and that this will result in poor performance (unlikely as it'll move little-used stuff there first and has tons of logic to try and do this well). In practise in most scenarios this either has no effect or makes performance worse as instead of moving stuff to page file it'll change behaviour to reduce memory use, so it'll pre-fetch less content for stuff you actually are using, resulting in a worse experience in most cases (not all - some benchmarks will be faster the other way round)
 
David Bisset said:
The page file is used by the OS primarily when it runs out of RAM - it puts some little used info from RAM onto disk to free up space for something more important. By default windows has a page file - so yours has been turned off by someone or something.

The problem is, people think 'I've got plenty RAM so don't need a page file' but this is not necessarily true. Some programs, particularly ones that were written at times when memory limits were tighter, would write information directly to the page file if they knew this information would be little used. Other programs would have checks to ensure there was a certain amount of page file free in case they needed it, and so on. As a result, turning it off isn't a good idea.

On why people turn it off: They think that they've got enough memory for everything they want to run (possibly true) and that windows will move stuff they want to the page file rather than keep it in memory (unlikely if the first point was true) and that this will result in poor performance (unlikely as it'll move little-used stuff there first and has tons of logic to try and do this well). In practise in most scenarios this either has no effect or makes performance worse as instead of moving stuff to page file it'll change behaviour to reduce memory use, so it'll pre-fetch less content for stuff you actually are using, resulting in a worse experience in most cases (not all - some benchmarks will be faster the other way round)
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Thanks for that!
I set it to System managed. that ok? won't really make a difference would it if i left it at that rather then custom 4MG.

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System managed is fine :) especially if your HDD isn't low on space (it's taking 16GB of HDD space and probably doesn't need it all, but if there is space to spare then its fine :D)
 
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