Page file.?

Kennysevenfold · 28 Dec 2008 at 14:47

what is it.? lol

just in general terms, not wanting to everything possible about it :rolleyes:

many thanks

iviv · 28 Dec 2008 at 15:11

In simplest terms, I think it just uses a portion of your hard drive like RAM. Programs run in the ram in the background. You run a game that needs all the ram, but you can't just close all the windows processes, so it moves them to the page file (Virtual memory) so they aren't hogging the faster ram.

edit: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555223

Kennysevenfold · 28 Dec 2008 at 15:19

ahh cheers buddy, got the general idea now

NightSt@lk3r · 28 Dec 2008 at 15:54

It's a pain in the ass that what it is.

reflux · 28 Dec 2008 at 15:57

Page File = Virtual Memory = what happens when you don't have enough RAM. Responsible for general slowness and chugging, prevalent whilst trying to run Crysis on a Vista machine with 2GB of RAM for example.

musicman53 · 28 Dec 2008 at 16:11

reflux said:
Page File = Virtual Memory = what happens when you don't have enough RAM. Responsible for general slowness and chugging, prevalent whilst trying to run Crysis on a Vista machine with 2GB of RAM for example.

Even if you had 4 Gig or 8 gig of ram then it is still needed and used.
With 2, 4 or more gig of ram and Pagefile disabled you would soon have problems.
Windows was and is meant to use a pagefile(hard disk as vikrtual ram).