RAM not enough

riamu · 20 Sep 2008 at 09:25

(1) I have 3.4 CGHz with 2Gb corsair 3200LL RAM and a 150Gb Raptor X drive and am trying to run flight simulator X on my system which has windows vista ultimate. the PC is saying there is not enough RAM and I went to the virtual memory tab and found there was 'no paging file' for the Raptor. I tried to turn on virtual memory but could not work out what figures to type in the minimum box and the other box. Could you please help? System is not overclocked and PSU is Globalwin Onyx 520 W, DFI 875 mobo, X800XT graphics card with latest drivers.

Vasquez · 20 Sep 2008 at 10:12

turn it to automatic or make it 1.5 times bigger than the amount of ram you have so 3GB

fobose · 20 Sep 2008 at 10:22

As said above. Set it to 3072 on min and max

riamu · 20 Sep 2008 at 23:58

how do you know what figures to put in those boxes and should i set a paging file for my external hard drives and other internal hard drive too?

fobose · 21 Sep 2008 at 00:10

If you have 2 internal hard drives, it is said its best to set the paging file to the second drive (the one without the operating system on it), I haven't done this on my PC though. From as long as I remember its always been a rule of 1.5x the amount of memory you have as your paging file, so if you have 2GB (2048MB) x 1.5 = 3072.