Windows paging file

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Hi Guys,

Just a question.

Do you manage your own paging file in Windows or do you let Windows manage it for you?

I have 3 drives in my PC 2 SSDs and a mechanical main drive is an SSD and I have it set for Windows to manage all.

Up until last night I didn't however I had it set to something like 1024mb - I was playing Fallout 4 and within ten minutes it CTD with no warnings or explanation this happened another 4 or 5 times.

I then changed the paging file settings to manage all and went until I was done with no issues - This was the only main system preference I changed after installing windows and thought it must have been the cause but after setting windows to manage it im worried it is going to become a huge file over time.
 
with mine I have set it to a min of 1024 with max of 2048.

I have 6GB of ram and I have had no issues playing games but they are not as demanding as fallout 4. my reason for doing this was to save space on the SSD.

how much ram do you have?
 
ED209 said:
with mine I have set it to a min of 1024 with max of 2048.

I have 6GB of ram and I have had no issues playing games but they are not as demanding as fallout 4. my reason for doing this was to save space on the SSD.

how much ram do you have?
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16gb of RAM and an 8gb AMD GPU and everything was at max settings 60FPS fine at 1080P
 
^ As above I had mine manually set to 2Gb for years (with 16Gb RAM), but lately I've seen games with memory leaks push past this so just leave it to auto.
 
You could monitor how much swap file is being used while playing Fallout 4 and then set the page file to slightly higher then that.

Personally I just leave Windows to manage it by itself.
 
ashlee84 said:
You could monitor how much swap file is being used while playing Fallout 4 and then set the page file to slightly higher then that.

Personally I just leave Windows to manage it by itself.
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Thanks - Could any recommend a good monitoring tool?
 
Set it to use the SDD and don't set a size, let Windows manage it if you are on 7/8/8.1 or 10.

Manually setting it something that was only really of use back in Windows XP days and only usually in certain circumstances.
 
Have mine set to 1024MB initial (allows some of the core Windows stuff to function properly like BSOD dumps and prevents problems with some, mostly older, games) and then set whatever max size to whatever you are comfortable with IIRC mine is 8192MB on most systems. Never had a problem and keeps the size minimal while still maintaining compatibility.

I do not however have FO4 but if a game is using up all 16GB on my system and pushing past 6-7GB of paged memory then there is probably quite a serious problem somewhere :S
 
Cant really say guys its not like I got an error or anything it just plain stopped.

As this was the only thing I had changed - I reverted back to normal and its been fine ever since.
 
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