Quick question about this registy *fix*

[Mana]

I have an ati 3870, and while i love it on the whole it has given me problems. general windows use is fine however i am a problem when i am playing world of warcraft.

The first is that i will get world of warcraft game errors and the game will crash to desktop. Now the error game code is 134 and if u search, tons of people are having this problem. The fix for this is by doing the following:

1) Go to:

Start\
Run\
"regedit"
Press Enter.

2) Go to:

File\
Export\
Create a file name to save your registry ie: C:\documents\"032108reg"

3) Go to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\
SYSTEM\
CURRENTCONTROLSET\
CONTROL\
SESSON MANAGER\
MEMORY MANAGEMENT\

In the "MEMEORY MANAGEMENT" foler look for "PAGEDPOOLSIZE".

Right click "PAGEPOOLSIZE", and click MODIFY.

In the VALUEDATA box type ffffffff

(The system calculates the maximum paged pool allowed for the system in this configuration. For 32-bit systems, this is typically less than 500 MB. You must restart the computer before a change to this value takes effect).

NOTE: Do not put more than 8, or less than 8 as a value!!! There must be eight f's in that valuedata line.

4) NEXT Right Click in the DATA Window and click on "REG_WORD" to create a new REG_WORD value.

5) Name the new REG_WORD value to "PoolusageMaximum" (if you clicked enter before naming it, right click the value, and click rename).

6) After naming it, or renaming it "PoolusageMaximum", right click it, and click "MODIFY".

7) In the VALUEDATA box type "00000028" (that is 6 zero's and a 28, type no more or no less).

Now EXIT the REGISTRY, you are now done.

My question is, what impact will this have on my windows performance outside of gaming. Will it be a big performance hit in general?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Mana]

0xFFFFFFFF

The system calculates the maximum paged pool allowed for the system in this configuration. For 32-bit systems, this is typically less than 500 MB. This setting is typically used for servers that are attempting to cache a very large number of frequently used small files, some number of very large size files, or both. In these cases, the file cache that relies on paged pool to manage its caching is able to cache more files (and for longer periods of time) if more paged pool is available.

This is basically what i have done, along with PoolusageMaximum set to 00000028.

Any thoughts on how this can be a detriment to windows performance...