Guys, please ignore this video. It's clearly made by someone who doesn't know what they are talking about. Firstly his RAM is showing 3.8GB rather than 4GB usable because he has a CPU with a built in graphics chip, so that 0.2GB has been assigned there (if it was being used by programs it would still be "usable"). Secondly, Windows manages how much SWAP RAM you have anyway, what he's advising you do is pointless. This will NOT help performance because if you reach the point where SWAP is being used at all (because all your actual RAM has all been used) your performance will crash through the floor because your hard disk is massively slower than actual proper RAM. You will NOT get more FPS in games, things will not work faster. Anyone who thinks they have seen a performance increase from doing this is unfortunately suffering from the placebo effect.
Enverex actually no, it WILL slow down your computer, if you give windows VM it will use it, it tries to always keep some ram free by doing a balancing act. where as if you have no pf (or a small one) it forces windows to use the (much much) faster ram.
The amount of swap/page you have allocated won't effect how much Windows swaps (unless you have no page file or the page file is tiny and simply isn't usable). For example Windows won't utilise virtual memory more if you have a 4GB page file VS. 2GB.
This is one of the major point to make the computer speed faster. And for this problem, I always used to call on the toll-free number the AskPCTechies to resolve the error completely.
This makes no difference, windows already uses all the vram it needs, this is literally a placebo to make people who don't know any better feel slightly better about themselves, honestly, the only effective way to improve a machines memory is to buy more ram or to declutter the startup with msconfig
+Al Paca yeah your right trust me this method does not work its all fake. if you want more performance then go and buy more ram sticks depending on your PC
I just want you to know that I couldn't even play my games at all they would move frame by frame like slow motion. I tried this step from this video and my games are running so great!!! I sooo appreciate this!!!!
Thx. Additional consideration for all is : hard drives have arms on multiple discs like the old needle on vinyl records. The less it has to move back and forth, the faster it'll be. Having same max and min size prevents os from constantly changing virtual memory file size. Also known as the. swap file *swp. It will likely be in pieces in different places. Using hd app, defrag and get free space and swap file in one piece at start of drive so arms travel as little as possible.
The earlier Norton Utilities I think did this. Currently I think Perfectdisk and another I forgot, do this. Yrs ago I saw huge speed up defragging and moving system files to start of drive.
This does not do much to increase speed. If anything it might slow down your computer as Hard drives and even SSDs are much slower than RAM. The best thing to do is to increase your RAM. If you don't have the money of are unable to add more RAM. Use a flash drive with Windows Readyboost, or if you use links, just format it as SWAP space.
+Ryan Cavitt (Kira) Why? I thought virtual memory was just meant to give you extra RAM? So if you have say 32GB system RAM, and you have 32GB virtual memory, wouldn't this help with programs requiring around 40GB memory?
Your hard disk is slower than your actual RAM. The computer uses the "virtual ram" when it lacks of actual RAM. I would recommend disabling your page file aka "virtual ram", if you have more than 8GB of RAM.
Virtual (as in "not physically existing as such but made by software to appear to do so") RAM does NOT speed up your machine. What it does do is allow memory-hungry programs to run under circumstances where you would otherwise run out of memory. However, if your computer needs to use virtual RAM, it runs a lot SLOWER when doing so. Google "how does virtual memory work" for more information.
Virtual or not Ram just does not make a computer faster. But If you tend to open more apllication and multi task, it's doesn't hurt to have a virtual ram.
***** You are correct, but you missed the point. The point was about VIRTUAL RAM, not physical. Adding physical RAM to a system that at least occasionally exceeds its previous RAM limit will always boost that PCs performance.
+TechnoMageB5 hello mister..i using research educational software and do numerical running simulation that base on "HOW BIG the RAM " on PC was.. i do it on 2 notebook with different OS and do it together..something strange happen, when i do in notebook with win10 64 OS, the memory on task manager use nearly maximum (3.4 GB which maximum 3,8 from actual 4GB installed next, the notebook with win7 64 only show 1,9GB RAM used from 3,8 avail from 4GB actual installed..and the runnin also longer.. both of them base on core i5 an only do 35% CPU process..yes, the simulation never care about core available on your PC, only available of RAM (or the RAM could use) will make sense..the result, win10 do faster with less than 50 hour running, and win7 less than 80 hour running.. any suggest??
Nugroho Ifadianto That's odd. Sounds like your notebook is allocating some physical RAM as shared video RAM automatically (instead of having a dedicated video card with its own VRAM), and (this latter part is a guess) may be self-adjusting the allocation based on OS management. You'll need to research your model on how that is set up and if BIOS settings allow you to control that (the Probook notebooks we have at work do NOT let us).
You saved my life with this video. There are plenty of people calling you a moron and such. This literally fucking worked for me. It boots faster than ever. I've tried so long and hard to reduce my boot time and this here is exactly what I need to do. Thank you so much.
Vitural ram is very slow unless you are using an SSD hard drive or some other drive that can run virtual ram. A fast SD drive or external SSD may be ok. But, never use a normal disk hard drive for virtual ram. In the past I actually turned off virtual ram on computers that only had normal HDDs.
You can use pagefiling (virtual ram) on a HDD but as you say, it won't improve performance since the data is coming from the HDD in the first place and HDDs are really shit slow, secondly if you're using an SSD you want to avoid pagefiling, because SSDs only have a limited number of read write cycles before they degrade, Pagefiling on a drive would go through these read write cycles several times faster than normal use.
Thanks man you're a life saver, I started up the sims 4 and it worked smoothly! The environment loaded faster and I could switch sims without freezing for 5 min lol I can finally use all my cc too! I can definitely deal with little lag spikes here and there because it's expected but the way my game ran before I did this method was terrible 😢
Virtual memory speeds up your PC only in a situation where you're very low on physical RAM, such as when you have a ton of Chrome tabs open, or using other memory intensive program.
I know a guy that works for Apple he can take your pc and expand the hard drive where you can fill the screen with all the amount of junk you want to clutter it up and the hard drive still has 100% free space on it. I know 3 genius's that can do things that is unbelievable. 1 graduated school in 9th grade went through college made straight A's he knows things that could make expert computer techs sick of trying to figure out themselves. I know alot of things about a computer this guy knows more than a brain could comprehend.
This is pointless. RAM isn't everything to making a PC faster. If you want faster load times, and faster bootup times, install an SSD and put your OS on it. There are so many fake videos on youtube its crazy. RUclips needs to take them down, they are just spreading false information. I just seen a youtube video that tells you "How to make your internet speed 100000x faster", Really? LOL. Some people have no life.
Well, this guy actually took his time to try and HELP people. being negative (No offence, Ekipze, Techgenius) doesn't really help promote this video. This video had to be at least the least, to say almost entirely NON fake video probably on RUclips about increasing your RAM virtually. Can I get an agreement on this?
Totally agree. Been in IT for 20 odd years now, and i hate when noobs discover things like this without actually researching into what it is or how it works... yeah, it increases your ram, but also reduces your HD life and slows your pc!
Using virtual ram does not necessarily increase performance, it create a page file on the HDD, most modern computer for the average person has 4gb of ram. By disabling the virtual ram/page file, it will increase speed of the machine and also between application because you force the applications and environment to run fully from memory, and not partialy on the HDD. The HDD is slower to access data than ram. you should only increase page file size or decrease or disable at your own discretion.
dont do this,virtual memory is SLOWER than ram. so using it slows your system down. buy extra ram its cheap now.....or you can do this with a ramdisk that works great. google speed up windows with ramdisk.
The virtual and physical memory is stored on a hard drive, while RAM is located inside the motherboard. It pages files to create exceptions from the programs.
just buy RAM its cheap and faster. if you want to do this - then it would be better if you use an SSD. vista had a system called superfetch which used memory sticks / cards etc to speed up system but again its a waste of time. use RAID 0 with 2 hard drives or ssd's and buy RAM.
before doing this and expecting big increases, I would first recommend optimizing the pc for performance. i.e turning off all the visual appearance effects. Then go into services.msc and shutting off unneeded services. msconfig and turn off all the programs that start with windows. As for optimizing the pc for audio/video production, they usually recommend doing all those things plus "getting rid of the paging file all together" along with low space disk checks and other background checks. I see a lot of people do tutorials and blame the screen recorder for slow performance when their pc isn't even optimized.
Well mines says system managed & C: is my only option with 'System Managed' as the only information given to me under my 'Paging File Size' information. Does that leave me disqualified with doing any of this? cuz I really don't wanna mess anything up proceeding on...
i was following you step by step until it got to the restart now or later option and i totally thought it was your computer and mine just didnt want to restart lool
misinformation from this video please refrain from changing your page file in system settings this will not increase system performance it may actually slow it down in some cases.
It really depends on how you are using your computer. there is no right or wrong amount. I personally am a power user and gamer and have one pc with 24gb another with 16gb and a laptop with 8gb. To find out how much ram you use regularly open your "task manager" and in will show you your ram utilization. Most people think keeping it below 60-75% on normal basis is good for pc health.
that statement that using a page file to boost computer speed isn't true because all a page file is, is a area on the hard disk that is reserved for when the RAM gets full, not actually RAM.
its not actually true, instead you are using the HDD (hard disk drive) which is further than RAM in the tower and that slows it down more especially if you have a older HDD. Programs always slow down when using the HDD, just think, you are always wrighting the files to your HDD which in return is slowing down the HDD.( Loading times will be much longer) The best way and allways will be is to upgrade your PHYSICAL RAM (ive found it as cheap as £40 for an extra 4GB of it.)
I also have two drives on my PC : C: and D: ... and someway all of my memory is allocated only for drive C: . Should I split it , and how should do it ? Can you help please!
How did you disabled the Virtual Memory. Was there any difference when you disabled it. I have Xp 32 bit 1gig. My virtual memory is 768 maxium is 1536. Recommend allowed is 1531
@@david_ryder yeah if you use virtual memory more than the recommended, it will make your PC slower. But I don't recommend you to disable it. Just set all hard drives into
+ron thattrollagen (troll) Once I saw an add on my Windows XP (ahh back in the day when if you had Pentium 4 you were and ultimate gamer xD) it said ''Download *1GB RAM FOR FREE* *SUPER FAST AND FREE* I was like, damn 1 GB RAM,who ever has it is so lucky xD. p.s now i have 12 gb ram :P
+Crimsonfireball Wou ldhave made just as much of a difference if you had only used 12GB. All you did was waste 488 GB of storage space. If windows would actually use 500GB of virtual memory you could to lunch to wait for a program that used that much to startup... Virtual memory is more then 100 times slower then physical RAM. RAM Speeds are up to 25.6GB per second. HDD's are up to 550MB/sec for SSD and 150MB/sec for HDD.
What's the sense of doubling the minimum size from the maximum size? I've watched other videos - both minimum and maximum are with the same amount. Which is better? Both minimum and maximum are the same or multiply the minimum by two then place it to the maximum? Sorry bad english
Yahya, what do I do witht he second drive. Do I also put it to 12000 MB, because that's what the calculator told me my number is or do I just do it on one drive. Because both drive has the memory set to 4000-4500 and my recommended is 4573, do I increase both to 12000 or just keep the 4573?
I haven't read any further than the first 2 comments.. but the "usuable" RAM installed is 3.8 because the rest of it is used for video memory because you have no dedicated video card.
You kinda helped me without knowing it... I had a second drive, and didn't use it. AT ALL. So. :I I turned it on and my PC has never been faster before.
Is this safe? im changing my 4gb ram to 8gb ram temporarily only just to install fitgirls repack. Once I installed it i will change it back to 4gb again. need a reply ASAP
This will not make your computer faster. Upgrading RAM doesn't make your computer faster either. The only time upgrading RAM would really help the average user is if they had under 4GB of RAM. Also upgrading the speed of RAM in no way will help the average person and even for pc gamers the difference between 800MHZ RAM and 2133 ram is 1-2 FPS.
If you changed that 4GB to 8GB you would be correct, if you're a PC gamer at least. 8 is the new 4, almost all games requires more than 4 these days and no game requires over 8, Watch Dogs, you wont even be able to launch the game with 4 GB of ram when it's released. And currently, 4GB of ram for battlefield 4 isn't enough, you get constant stuttering with anything less than 6.
bluack123 Yeah but he is making it seem like the more RAM you have the faster your computer is which is bull crap. For the average user more ram then 4 GB is useless and a waste of money. I am a PC gamer and I do a lot of 3D art so I need at least 8 GB of RAM.
Thank you. Thank you so much. I used to able to run games like CS:GO or Chivalry:Medieval Warfare, but lately it's been lagging hard FPS wise. This has helped me get back into swinging my sword. Thanks!
Wait, so what were to happen if you _did_ decide to add more virtual ram than the recommend (1.5x) amount? If you were to add like 2.5x or even 3x more ram, what would be the consequence, would your computer just start running slower even? Or would it still work?
it seems like using your hdd as ram would use up a lot of read/write cycles on it, causing it to have a shorter lifespan. maybe this would be good if you had an old drive laying around to use solely for this purpose it would be good, but I would guess that if you have parts around like that you probably don't have much need to upgrade ram on the cheap anyways.
You may be tinkering with Virtual Memory. But hearing you. It seems you have absolutely no clue how this works. Keep it at de recommended setting "Let windows manage" for optimum performance. Extending Virtual RAM (paging) actually worsens performance. Actually you didn't assign 5839MB but 8911MB (as your pagefile extends over two drives which is actually one drive partitioned into two, therefore increasing seek times unnecessary) Best performance? Disable Page file op Drive D:\ Enable "Let windows manage" Done.
I haven't read all the comments (obviously) but I must say it's not as easy as "right" or "wrong". In case a computers RAM is completely used by some very heavy memory hungry process, it can actually help to have a big swap file so the computer doesn't (seem to) freeze while performing this task. However, if the RAM is not totally used, the OS (at least Windows) still uses the swap / page file to a certain amount (like 25%?) in order to be prepared for such an occurrence and to have more RAM available for potentially newly created processes. This is what slows things down - bad for gaming indeed. Lots of disk I/O and the HDD or SSD gets weared out more quickly. Completely disabling the swap may cause trouble if the OS crashes and tries to write a dump file - it needs a swap file for that (for some reason). At least a small swap is advisable. A big swap might be useful depending on what is done on the machine. If more RAM is too expensive or the main boards limit is reached that is. BTW, there is no such thing as virtual RAM. It's virtual memory. RAM stands for Random Access Memory (or Random Allocation Memory). The "Randomness" is what makes RAM fast. Not that it works randomly, but it's not depending on a mechanical head or a complex file system - just plain addresses that have been declared 'randomly' when they were available.
You should tell these viewers about disk thrashing since you are advising against actually fixing their insufficient ram capacity and using virtual memory. For those of you using this tip, virtual memory is to stop your computer from crashing when you max out your available ram and to write files to something non volatile when windows shuts down due to errors (ram gets cleared when the pc is shut down). The only real solutions are to upgrade your ram or slim down your running processes.
Hi, Gadget Worm. Once I have performed the actions you described, I go back in to Computer, right-click properties to check the RAM and it still says the original amount, however, when I go to the Advanced settings where I increased the amount, it does show that I made changes. (I did re-start my computer.) Is this okay? Please advise. Thanks for the information!
I did it a while back on my old gaming pc and it LITERALLY doubled how fast my system booted up.. It ran games better after I did it aswell.. Maybe it varies system to system.
Guys, this doesn't work, how do I go back? I tried putting System Managed Size back on and checked Automatically Manage Paging File Sizes for all drives Half my hard drive space is gone because of this stupid thing and I can't go baaaackkk ;-;
i have changed my virtual memory following this video, however i decided to revert back to the default settings as i saw the memory spaces in my D drive go from approx 120 GB to 20GB, my memory has still remained at 20 GB, do you know of any solutions to this?
How this works is by using Virtual Paging. which means when your RAM gets full. your system will store the data in your hard disk instead of the RAM. this does help a bit but keep in mind that your hard disk is slower than your RAM like if your RAM can type 100 words per minutes, your harddisk can only write 5. so your high-end game might still work but you will experience some lag(because low hard disk speed) now if you have an SSD(solid state drive) which is basically a hard drive that works digitally without any mechanical parts it will perform much better. but still. nothing is as fast as your RAM. however this method is useful if you're trying to run a software which consumes alot of RAM and like Android Studio. the lag wont be noticeable and still you can run the software without limitations
for performance it is not important how much virtual RAM you have, it is important that the minimum and maximum pagefile size are the same, so that Windows will not resize (ad possible fragment) the pagefile. If you run out of virtual memory, your system gets not slower, but it gets unstable: applications and possibly even Windows itself will crash. It might appear to run slower, but in this case you actually have a crashed application or service that is stopped or restarted by Windows and your system is not slower, but it actually hangs completely before Windows treats the application or service. You usually will know the reason because you will get out of memory messages. If you have so much RAM that it never runs out , you can actually disable the pagefile. For this 64Gb should be enough for almost everyone, for most people 16GB would be enough for this.
+rfvtgbzhn actually changing the pagefile settings could in theory defragment it (by deleting and recreating it) which could boost the performance a little
Dude you are supposed to do it in 2 different hard disks, not in 2 different partitions on the same drive. Moving virtual memory to a secondary storage harddrive, and removing it on the system drive speeds up performance cause the system hardisk's head doesnt have to go back and forth reading both files and pagefile one at the time. Moving pagefile to a secondary hardisk allows the first drive to read files smoothly while the other reads pagefile at the same time. Also adding pagefile to many fast usb flash drives, especially if you have an older pc with low ram helps. This usb thing helps only on old PCs with low specs, and only if more than one flash drive is used. If not buy a hybrid SSHD drive for laptops, they are not expensive and are much much faster than normal HDDs. They are really an affordable game changer.
This is really for older computers. Hard drives are incredibly slow compared to main memory. This won't benefit you if you have a fair amount of memory and of a decent speed. Hard drives are typically the slowest component in a computer beside the optical media drive.
Can this be used to go around the Ram limitation when you are under a 32bit Win architectur? Previous SSD is toasted, had to re-install Win8, but for some reason he doesn't let me install thez 64bit version, so i'm stuck with a 32bit, and my 8Gh Ram is now reduced to 3Gh... And its anoying the crap out of me...
Depends on the computer, most gaming laptops have a max of 16gb or 32gb RAM(for the really expensive ones)Now that's what they allow without voiding the warranty.(Doesn't always mean you can't put more)But for most uses over 16gb Ram is overkill. Plus I believe you need the Windows 7 Ultimate or Professional to actually use all 16gb of ram,because premium will recognize it but not use it all.For example it will say something like 16gb ram ,12gb available for use.At least that's what I've heard.
Hi, I need your help. I have 8GB ram my laptop is i5. I need to know my maximum recommended RAM to set on Custom size is 4588. But on your Laptop shown bigger than yours how can i make it more bigger?
Hi i have a problem.I have 8 gb ram but only 4gb is usable,my total paping file size for all drivers are minimum allowed 16mb,recommended 6142 and currently allocated 4095 why and what should i do??
The amount of RAM does affect the speed of your computer as long as you have it tuned properly. If you have a cluttered OS with numerous programs running memory resident, then it wont matter, since your computer for the most part will just eat up whatever extra RAM you put in. The key is to optimize your system for the best performance possible, so that RAM you install will make a sizable difference. RAM always has, and still is, (one of the) the most cost-effective upgrades you can install, as long as its upgraded properly. Many people say its not, because they dont actually notice it booting faster, or loading certain programs faster. If you run a real hardware benchmark program before and after the RAM upgrade, you will notice it especially will boost the speed when using a RAM intensive program, or game. The key is to use the fastest RAM possible for your current setup, taking into account the CPU and the bus speed. Windows 7 benchmark feature is on the primitive side, but it does at leave give you a baseline to work with. Upgrading the amount of RAM usually wont improve the RAM score even if it helps your OS out. Installing faster RAM will... As far as this video goes.. Just changing virtual memory settings will not do much of anything. If its done in conjunction with other forms of optimization, it will help a bit, but its not noticeable. I often see people beefing up their virtual RAM on a cluttered OS with an older hard drive with less then ideal space available, and that will actually slow down your computer, and that WILL be noticeable. Also if you have motherboard with built-in video, do yourself a favor and pick up a video card. You dont need to be a gamer to realize the nice boost it can give you. You will be able to run your video without borrowing resources from your system such as RAM for the video memory, and it will allow more power from your CPU to be dedicated to the OS.
What i don't get where should i change those numbers,i mean at 3:25,he has C: and D:,and he puts it in the first one,that means,that i must put the numbers in the first one,or must i put in the one with where windows is install,or OS or whatever it is called,or where i want to boost my game,in my case i want to boost the speed of games!It may sound stupid or nonsense what i just said,but please someone help!
+GadgetWorm I got 4gb RAM and it says its 2.00gb usable and sometimes when i play a game or if i am in 1 website its coming error and says to save my files..and after about 2-3 mins its automatic close my website or game that i've been playing. Can any1 help me please? Thanks ^^
What would actually help is , while you have that same tab open (Performance options) click the "Visual Effects" tab and then select "Best Performance" ...all this does is remove useless windows fades, animations and visual gimmicks ...thus freeing up the computer to do your actual work faster . DO NOT ADD MORE VIRTUAL MEMORY, ADD REAL RAM . The computer is slow bc is out of real RAM so it's now using virtual memory on slow hard drive memory .
Okay, so my computer intially says that I have 8gb of ram. When I did the following insturctions, it says my recommended would be 4588, and the allocated ram 1280. Can you help me?
RAM and virtual memory are two quite different things. RAM: Takes memory from your RAM unit. Faster and more efficient. Doesn't take up memory from HDD. If you want more you have to buy more though. Virtual memory: Takes memory from your HDD. Slower and less safe than RAM (e.g running sims 2 purely on Virtual memory will be sluggish and causes glitches). Takes memory from your HDD. No big performance difference between having two times more virtual memory than RAM vs having 20 times more than RAM. So if you have 8 GB ram, 16 GB virtual memory is enough, more wont make any difference.
Virtual memory won't make your system faster. Optimum configuration is to have 3 partitions (or more), first is for pagefile (this is virtual memory for) and you make it like 1,5x of your physical ram, second is for OS and third for all data. Why to have pagefile partition first? Because it's on outer side where disk has bigger R/W speed and lower access times. Next, use some quality disk utility and test your disk up to which size it has best speeds and low access time, and do the partition up to this size, and use rest for data. For example, I've a 750GB WD black 7200rpm, and I've 24GB for my pagefile and my disk is fast up to 204-208GB, so I've created partition for my system in size of 180GB, so the pagefile and system are on most outer side of disk and it runs really really fast. Also I have i7 3840QM and 16GB of ram in my laptop, but the difference is pretty significant when I was testing 500GB 5400rpm drive, even if you partition it correctly, the difference is visible. Additionally, you've to set your pagefile to do a small memory dump onto your system partition, and set "Virtual memory" size on your partition to 401kb (small dump needs 400kb), and on partition meant to pagefile to the size of your partition minus 5MB. I assigned my pagefile partition a P: letter, and also you have to set all other that small kernel dump options to dump onto that partition.
Almost 10 years old, and still relevant, thank you.
Very clear video and description.
Guys, please ignore this video. It's clearly made by someone who doesn't know what they are talking about.
Firstly his RAM is showing 3.8GB rather than 4GB usable because he has a CPU with a built in graphics chip, so that 0.2GB has been assigned there (if it was being used by programs it would still be "usable").
Secondly, Windows manages how much SWAP RAM you have anyway, what he's advising you do is pointless. This will NOT help performance because if you reach the point where SWAP is being used at all (because all your actual RAM has all been used) your performance will crash through the floor because your hard disk is massively slower than actual proper RAM. You will NOT get more FPS in games, things will not work faster.
Anyone who thinks they have seen a performance increase from doing this is unfortunately suffering from the placebo effect.
***** Actually it wouldn't, it would just waste disk space.
Enverex
actually no, it WILL slow down your computer, if you give windows VM it will use it, it tries to always keep some ram free by doing a balancing act. where as if you have no pf (or a small one) it forces windows to use the (much much) faster ram.
The amount of swap/page you have allocated won't effect how much Windows swaps (unless you have no page file or the page file is tiny and simply isn't usable). For example Windows won't utilise virtual memory more if you have a 4GB page file VS. 2GB.
how do I undo this?
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I like how 10% of the comments are saying this doesn't work and 90% says it worked perfectly :D
This is one of the major point to make the computer speed faster. And for this problem, I always used to call on the toll-free number the AskPCTechies to resolve the error completely.
This makes no difference, windows already uses all the vram it needs, this is literally a placebo to make people who don't know any better feel slightly better about themselves, honestly, the only effective way to improve a machines memory is to buy more ram or to declutter the startup with msconfig
Al Paca I wish I could like this comment x1,000,000.
Al Paca well mine works faster
Al Paca it worked before i watched this video I always knew this
+Al Paca It actually tends to slow down your computer I have tested and my computer runs much more smoothly without any extra dedicated RAM
+Al Paca yeah your right trust me this method does not work its all fake. if you want more performance then go and buy more ram sticks depending on your PC
I just want you to know that I couldn't even play my games at all they would move frame by frame like slow motion. I tried this step from this video and my games are running so great!!! I sooo appreciate this!!!!
Thx. Additional consideration for all is : hard drives have arms on multiple discs like the old needle on vinyl records. The less it has to move back and forth, the faster it'll be. Having same max and min size prevents os from constantly changing virtual memory file size. Also known as the. swap file *swp. It will likely be in pieces in different places. Using hd app, defrag and get free space and swap file in one piece at start of drive so arms travel as little as possible.
The earlier Norton Utilities I think did this. Currently I think Perfectdisk and another I forgot, do this. Yrs ago I saw huge speed up defragging and moving system files to start of drive.
This does not do much to increase speed. If anything it might slow down your computer as Hard drives and even SSDs are much slower than RAM.
The best thing to do is to increase your RAM. If you don't have the money of are unable to add more RAM. Use a flash drive with Windows Readyboost, or if you use links, just format it as SWAP space.
+I Smell Penis... Check ☑ Automatically manage paging file size for all drives at virtual memory setting, apply and restart your computer
***** Or if you have more than 16Gb of RAM you can get away with having no virtual memory.
+Ryan Cavitt (Kira) Even that wont work as regular RAM it will be slower. And probably you will fry those sticks if they are shity
Jack Doe RAM is faster than non-volatile storage such as hard drives or SSDs
+Ryan Cavitt (Kira) Why? I thought virtual memory was just meant to give you extra RAM? So if you have say 32GB system RAM, and you have 32GB virtual memory, wouldn't this help with programs requiring around 40GB memory?
Your hard disk is slower than your actual RAM. The computer uses the "virtual ram" when it lacks of actual RAM. I would recommend disabling your page file aka "virtual ram", if you have more than 8GB of RAM.
Thank you, needed a refresher, just got a new pc, windows 7 64 bit after dealing with a windows xp 32 bit for 4+ years. subscribed.
Virtual (as in "not physically existing as such but made by software to appear to do so") RAM does NOT speed up your machine. What it does do is allow memory-hungry programs to run under circumstances where you would otherwise run out of memory. However, if your computer needs to use virtual RAM, it runs a lot SLOWER when doing so.
Google "how does virtual memory work" for more information.
Virtual or not Ram just does not make a computer faster. But If you tend to open more apllication and multi task, it's doesn't hurt to have a virtual ram.
+Crimsonfireball just add more. my pc can take up to 64gb or 128gb ddr4 I just have 16 and it's pretty fast
***** You are correct, but you missed the point. The point was about VIRTUAL RAM, not physical. Adding physical RAM to a system that at least occasionally exceeds its previous RAM limit will always boost that PCs performance.
+TechnoMageB5 hello mister..i using research educational software and do numerical running simulation that base on "HOW BIG the RAM " on PC was..
i do it on 2 notebook with different OS and do it together..something strange happen, when i do in notebook with win10 64 OS, the memory on task manager use nearly maximum (3.4 GB which maximum 3,8 from actual 4GB installed
next, the notebook with win7 64 only show 1,9GB RAM used from 3,8 avail from 4GB actual installed..and the runnin also longer..
both of them base on core i5 an only do 35% CPU process..yes, the simulation never care about core available on your PC, only available of RAM (or the RAM could use) will make sense..the result, win10 do faster with less than 50 hour running, and win7 less than 80 hour running..
any suggest??
Nugroho Ifadianto That's odd. Sounds like your notebook is allocating some physical RAM as shared video RAM automatically (instead of having a dedicated video card with its own VRAM), and (this latter part is a guess) may be self-adjusting the allocation based on OS management. You'll need to research your model on how that is set up and if BIOS settings allow you to control that (the Probook notebooks we have at work do NOT let us).
You saved my life with this video. There are plenty of people calling you a moron and such. This literally fucking worked for me. It boots faster than ever. I've tried so long and hard to reduce my boot time and this here is exactly what I need to do. Thank you so much.
have u had any regressive problems after doing this? whats ur ram ?
Vitural ram is very slow unless you are using an SSD hard drive or some other drive that can run virtual ram. A fast SD drive or external SSD may be ok. But, never use a normal disk hard drive for virtual ram. In the past I actually turned off virtual ram on computers that only had normal HDDs.
You can use pagefiling (virtual ram) on a HDD but as you say, it won't improve performance since the data is coming from the HDD in the first place and HDDs are really shit slow, secondly if you're using an SSD you want to avoid pagefiling, because SSDs only have a limited number of read write cycles before they degrade, Pagefiling on a drive would go through these read write cycles several times faster than normal use.
for now 10minutes after fallow this steps my laptop works faster than before.thank u anyway..
Thanks man you're a life saver, I started up the sims 4 and it worked smoothly! The environment loaded faster and I could switch sims without freezing for 5 min lol I can finally use all my cc too! I can definitely deal with little lag spikes here and there because it's expected but the way my game ran before I did this method was terrible 😢
dude i am right there absolutely agree with you that some people can't afford it good
Virtual memory speeds up your PC only in a situation where you're very low on physical RAM, such as when you have a ton of Chrome tabs open, or using other memory intensive program.
Our lovely chrome hits (eats) the RAM, lol good example mate
Don't use Chrome, it's the worst.
It never speeds up. Unless you think that disk drive is fast as RAM.
It only prevents your apps crashing when out of RAM space.
I know a guy that works for Apple he can take your pc and expand the hard drive where you can fill the screen with all the amount of junk you want to clutter it up and the hard drive still has 100% free space on it. I know 3 genius's that can do things that is unbelievable. 1 graduated school in 9th grade went through college made straight A's he knows things that could make expert computer techs sick of trying to figure out themselves. I know alot of things about a computer this guy knows more than a brain could comprehend.
Cool story bro tell it again
And yet here you are on the youtube comments. Most "genius" people i know don't use youtube on "how to make computer faster". Lol
This is pointless. RAM isn't everything to making a PC faster. If you want faster load times, and faster bootup times, install an SSD and put your OS on it. There are so many fake videos on youtube its crazy. RUclips needs to take them down, they are just spreading false information. I just seen a youtube video that tells you "How to make your internet speed 100000x faster", Really? LOL. Some people have no life.
Well, this guy actually took his time to try and HELP people. being negative (No offence, Ekipze, Techgenius) doesn't really help promote this video. This video had to be at least the least, to say almost entirely NON fake video probably on RUclips about increasing your RAM virtually. Can I get an agreement on this?
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xXWarfighterXx's Channel yeah, he's TRYING to help, by suggesting the wring thing...
Totally agree. Been in IT for 20 odd years now, and i hate when noobs discover things like this without actually researching into what it is or how it works... yeah, it increases your ram, but also reduces your HD life and slows your pc!
Lol U r real genuis dude! But did u mean it doesnt work?
Using virtual ram does not necessarily increase performance, it create a page file on the HDD, most modern computer for the average person has 4gb of ram. By disabling the virtual ram/page file, it will increase speed of the machine and also between application because you force the applications and environment to run fully from memory, and not partialy on the HDD. The HDD is slower to access data than ram. you should only increase page file size or decrease or disable at your own discretion.
dont do this,virtual memory is SLOWER than ram. so using it slows your system down. buy extra ram its cheap now.....or you can do this with a ramdisk that works great. google speed up windows with ramdisk.
It doesn't. Virtual memory is outside of the motherboard and doesn't affect it.
jelena jankovic this type of virtual memory uses a paging file which is stored on disc, its slower than real ram. buy ram.
The virtual and physical memory is stored on a hard drive, while RAM is located inside the motherboard. It pages files to create exceptions from the programs.
just buy RAM its cheap and faster. if you want to do this - then it would be better if you use an SSD. vista had a system called superfetch which used memory sticks / cards etc to speed up system but again its a waste of time. use RAID 0 with 2 hard drives or ssd's and buy RAM.
I still didn't taken the video.I know, but SSDs, I don't like.
I did your math, and got exactly half the total, but my pc recommended 6087, so I did that, runs much faster now, thanks.
before doing this and expecting big increases, I would first recommend optimizing the pc for performance. i.e turning off all the visual appearance effects. Then go into services.msc and shutting off unneeded services. msconfig and turn off all the programs that start with windows. As for optimizing the pc for audio/video production, they usually recommend doing all those things plus "getting rid of the paging file all together" along with low space disk checks and other background checks. I see a lot of people do tutorials and blame the screen recorder for slow performance when their pc isn't even optimized.
Well mines says system managed & C: is my only option with 'System Managed' as the only information given to me under my 'Paging File Size' information.
Does that leave me disqualified with doing any of this? cuz I really don't wanna mess anything up proceeding on...
this seems to have helped my aging cheep lap top. Thank you.
i was following you step by step until it got to the restart now or later option and i totally thought it was your computer and mine just didnt want to restart lool
misinformation from this video please refrain from changing your page file in system settings this will not increase system performance it may actually slow it down in some cases.
It really depends on how you are using your computer. there is no right or wrong amount. I personally am a power user and gamer and have one pc with 24gb another with 16gb and a laptop with 8gb. To find out how much ram you use regularly open your "task manager" and in will show you your ram utilization. Most people think keeping it below 60-75% on normal basis is good for pc health.
How come I only have 2944 MB on the total paging size for all drivers while my computer has 16 GB of RAM?
that statement that using a page file to boost computer speed isn't true because all a page file is, is a area on the hard disk that is reserved for when the RAM gets full, not actually RAM.
Your Windows 7 is better than my Windows 10. How sad :(
so you uses fake microsoft window 10?
My windows 10 is so crappy that it couldnt even run mineceaft (crash before entering game)
I have windows 10 pro with license activated
Use OEM Version It Will Work Fine
@@batmanmarvel5282 what's it
My windows 8.1 had it running at 1875 what a joke. I have 4gb. This was a real help, thanks bro.
its not actually true, instead you are using the HDD (hard disk drive) which is further than RAM in the tower and that slows it down more especially if you have a older HDD. Programs always slow down when using the HDD, just think, you are always wrighting the files to your HDD which in return is slowing down the HDD.( Loading times will be much longer)
The best way and allways will be is to upgrade your PHYSICAL RAM (ive found it as cheap as £40 for an extra 4GB of it.)
I tried with 45000-50000MB of Disk space... Before I restart, is it gonna crash?
I increased it slightly and put mine in my SSD instead of my HDD.
This should run faster..
I also have two drives on my PC : C: and D: ... and someway all of my memory is allocated only for drive C: . Should I split it , and how should do it ? Can you help please!
Reading and writing Hard Disk Memory is significantly slower than RAM. I completetly disabled Virtual Memory.
How did you disabled the Virtual Memory. Was there any difference when you disabled it.
I have Xp 32 bit 1gig. My virtual memory is 768 maxium is 1536. Recommend allowed is 1531
*****
setingt the size of VRAM to 0. You will need a bigger amount of RAM to get a stable running System that way (no problems with 16 GB)
@@david_ryder yeah if you use virtual memory more than the recommended, it will make your PC slower. But I don't recommend you to disable it.
Just set all hard drives into
Oh wait this is 6 year old comment
I didn't noticed XD
can i apply this method for my ATI radeon 3000 graphics???
guys free ram download XD. i loved those ads... i kinda miss them now...
+ron thattrollagen (troll) Once I saw an add on my Windows XP (ahh back in the day when if you had Pentium 4 you were and ultimate gamer xD) it said ''Download *1GB RAM FOR FREE* *SUPER FAST AND FREE* I was like, damn 1 GB RAM,who ever has it is so lucky xD. p.s now i have 12 gb ram :P
+Sebastian Wesolowski I have 32.
Sebastian Wesolowski i have 8... if i have 16 i hear my mother board might cause some problems. XD
+ron thattrollagen (troll) Wtf your motherboard? It usually doesn't depend on your motherboard?
+ron thattrollagen (troll) hey sir would you like to download some ram :D its totally not a virus
Works well with my 1T external hard drive. I partioned it by half and then use the half of it as virtual drive. It process things much faster now.
+Crimsonfireball Wou ldhave made just as much of a difference if you had only used 12GB. All you did was waste 488 GB of storage space. If windows would actually use 500GB of virtual memory you could to lunch to wait for a program that used that much to startup... Virtual memory is more then 100 times slower then physical RAM. RAM Speeds are up to 25.6GB per second. HDD's are up to 550MB/sec for SSD and 150MB/sec for HDD.
As soon as the math kicked in I gave up :/
Not particularly my strongest subject lol gave a thumbs up tho
What's the sense of doubling the minimum size from the maximum size? I've watched other videos - both minimum and maximum are with the same amount. Which is better? Both minimum and maximum are the same or multiply the minimum by two then place it to the maximum? Sorry bad english
the calculator said i should use 16384 mb but my computer recommends 4592... can i use 16384?
Yahya, what do I do witht he second drive. Do I also put it to 12000 MB, because that's what the calculator told me my number is or do I just do it on one drive. Because both drive has the memory set to 4000-4500 and my recommended is 4573, do I increase both to 12000 or just keep the 4573?
It just doesn't change the virtual RAM installed, but boost up the speed of your computer. It works if you only understand the instructions.
My specs is:
Intel pentium quad core processor N3540 (up to 2.66 GHz)
Intel HD Graphics
2 GB DDR3 L Memory
Is this a potato spec?
its garbage
hello scrubs tell me why its a garbage
***** funny i can play fallout new vegas and Tom clancy's rainbow six 2 in medium with these spec
***** well can you suggest me what i need to upgrade first? the ram or the cpu?
Lone Gamer the gpu
I haven't read any further than the first 2 comments.. but the "usuable" RAM installed is 3.8 because the rest of it is used for video memory because you have no dedicated video card.
You kinda helped me without knowing it...
I had a second drive, and didn't use it. AT ALL.
So. :I
I turned it on and my PC has never been faster before.
Is this safe? im changing my 4gb ram to 8gb ram temporarily only just to install fitgirls repack. Once I installed it i will change it back to 4gb again. need a reply ASAP
This will not make your computer faster. Upgrading RAM doesn't make your computer faster either. The only time upgrading RAM would really help the average user is if they had under 4GB of RAM. Also upgrading the speed of RAM in no way will help the average person and even for pc gamers the difference between 800MHZ RAM and 2133 ram is 1-2 FPS.
If you changed that 4GB to 8GB you would be correct, if you're a PC gamer at least. 8 is the new 4, almost all games requires more than 4 these days and no game requires over 8, Watch Dogs, you wont even be able to launch the game with 4 GB of ram when it's released. And currently, 4GB of ram for battlefield 4 isn't enough, you get constant stuttering with anything less than 6.
bluack123 Yeah but he is making it seem like the more RAM you have the faster your computer is which is bull crap. For the average user more ram then 4 GB is useless and a waste of money. I am a PC gamer and I do a lot of 3D art so I need at least 8 GB of RAM.
odobenus159 Yeah, what he's saying is wrong like you said it's bull crap lol
You obviously don't know much about computers pal.
Upgrading your RAM is the best thing you can do for the price - or buy a SSD.
Ashley Smith Did you read my comment?
Thank you. Thank you so much. I used to able to run games like CS:GO or Chivalry:Medieval Warfare, but lately it's been lagging hard FPS wise. This has helped me get back into swinging my sword. Thanks!
Virtual ram doesn't make your pc Faster!!!. Plz don't do this to your pc!
i only have 2 GB of ram, do u think i could upgrade it to something like 4GB in the virtual memory?
This guy should change his last name to: wow
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Wait, so what were to happen if you _did_ decide to add more virtual ram than the recommend (1.5x) amount? If you were to add like 2.5x or even 3x more ram, what would be the consequence, would your computer just start running slower even? Or would it still work?
I've tried putting above the recommended one and it makes my computer more slower so don't do it
I remember when I did this, and it made my videos render so much faster, also im gonna be getting 16gb ram eventually, so that's gonna be so high
it seems like using your hdd as ram would use up a lot of read/write cycles on it, causing it to have a shorter lifespan. maybe this would be good if you had an old drive laying around to use solely for this purpose it would be good, but I would guess that if you have parts around like that you probably don't have much need to upgrade ram on the cheap anyways.
Dunno if it's been mentioned but that .2Gb being used is probably Intel HD Graphics...
It is only used during graphically intensive programs. Your video card/Onboard video does not use ram if it is not doing something.
Thomas Gregoire butt its reserved so no program can use it thus its "used"
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You may be tinkering with Virtual Memory. But hearing you. It seems you have absolutely no clue how this works. Keep it at de recommended setting "Let windows manage" for optimum performance. Extending Virtual RAM (paging) actually worsens performance.
Actually you didn't assign 5839MB but 8911MB (as your pagefile extends over two drives which is actually one drive partitioned into two, therefore increasing seek times unnecessary)
Best performance?
Disable Page file op Drive D:\
Enable "Let windows manage"
Done.
I haven't read all the comments (obviously) but I must say it's not as easy as "right" or "wrong".
In case a computers RAM is completely used by some very heavy memory hungry process, it can actually help to have a big swap file so the computer doesn't (seem to) freeze while performing this task. However, if the RAM is not totally used, the OS (at least Windows) still uses the swap / page file to a certain amount (like 25%?) in order to be prepared for such an occurrence and to have more RAM available for potentially newly created processes. This is what slows things down - bad for gaming indeed. Lots of disk I/O and the HDD or SSD gets weared out more quickly. Completely disabling the swap may cause trouble if the OS crashes and tries to write a dump file - it needs a swap file for that (for some reason). At least a small swap is advisable. A big swap might be useful depending on what is done on the machine. If more RAM is too expensive or the main boards limit is reached that is.
BTW, there is no such thing as virtual RAM. It's virtual memory. RAM stands for Random Access Memory (or Random Allocation Memory). The "Randomness" is what makes RAM fast. Not that it works randomly, but it's not depending on a mechanical head or a complex file system - just plain addresses that have been declared 'randomly' when they were available.
thanks for laughing at my misery :P
how do you use a D: drive for boost?im right now trying it on my computer and windows 7 doesnt recognise the DVD.Pls help
I have 2.99GB of RAM
mrclayman me too
george petrica me four
***** !
HA I got 8 (no offence)
mrclayman have 6 gb of ram (no offense)tho
You should tell these viewers about disk thrashing since you are advising against actually fixing their insufficient ram capacity and using virtual memory. For those of you using this tip, virtual memory is to stop your computer from crashing when you max out your available ram and to write files to something non volatile when windows shuts down due to errors (ram gets cleared when the pc is shut down). The only real solutions are to upgrade your ram or slim down your running processes.
He actually referred to adding more RAM as preferred. But as an option for those that didn't have the funds at the time. Basically a buffer bandage.
haha..
wat
Hi, Gadget Worm. Once I have performed the actions you described, I go back in to Computer, right-click properties to check the RAM and it still says the original amount, however, when I go to the Advanced settings where I increased the amount, it does show that I made changes. (I did re-start my computer.) Is this okay? Please advise. Thanks for the information!
DONT DO THAT IT SLOWS YOUR COMPUTER TOOOOOO MUCHH BELIVE ME I DID THIS IT IS SOOOOO BADD
***** idk my computer is so slower now
+I Smell Penis... try to write the old number ...that number when you have changed to the new number ....may works :P ...
+FlippaNT use ssd and look like speed :D
I did it a while back on my old gaming pc and it LITERALLY doubled how fast my system booted up.. It ran games better after I did it aswell.. Maybe it varies system to system.
I have 8gb RAM and its reccomended 1905 ?? WTF When I calculate that 12,288 to give me nothing will happen to my laptop ?
Guys, this doesn't work, how do I go back? I tried putting System Managed Size back on and checked Automatically Manage Paging File Sizes for all drives
Half my hard drive space is gone because of this stupid thing and I can't go baaaackkk ;-;
+MidnightShadowYT Can't you just re-check the "Automatically manage paging files..." Box? So this way it won't use the "Custom size" that you set?
+TheKaneECO Yes actually I just did some research and re-checking that box, applying, and rebooting should restore it to it's default settings.
It doesn't, I already tried D:
What happens?
+MidnightShadowYT Just get a partition manager....it will fix yourdrive space problem
So what should I put in the initial size and the minimum size section..Am having 2gb ram.Pentium processor.and nvdia 710 2 gb grahpic card
i have 70GB not kidding it was $6,876
So?
Solo SynQ lol i know right
lol
waste of money all you need is 16
UMAD BRO? could of got a mac pro,alienware computer with that
i have changed my virtual memory following this video, however i decided to revert back to the default settings as i saw the memory spaces in my D drive go from approx 120 GB to 20GB, my memory has still remained at 20 GB, do you know of any solutions to this?
I have 32 GB of RAM, 6,3 GHz CPU, 12 GB Graphic, soo, I do not need any more RAM :PPPP
Daniel Klicek give me ur pc bro
Daniel Klicek I'm poor & I wanna play GTA V
Thanks, man! I didnt know u could use HARD DRIVE as RAM!
Hopefully this will speed minecraft :-)
Did it speed minecraft?
u r really clever :)
Not really
Thomas Gregoire yeah your right
Thanks a lot i can now play gta 4 without any lag and my laptop have 2gb Ram
How this works is by using Virtual Paging. which means when your RAM gets full. your system will store the data in your hard disk instead of the RAM. this does help a bit but keep in mind that your hard disk is slower than your RAM like if your RAM can type 100 words per minutes, your harddisk can only write 5. so your high-end game might still work but you will experience some lag(because low hard disk speed) now if you have an SSD(solid state drive) which is basically a hard drive that works digitally without any mechanical parts it will perform much better. but still. nothing is as fast as your RAM. however this method is useful if you're trying to run a software which consumes alot of RAM and like Android Studio. the lag wont be noticeable and still you can run the software without limitations
The "solution" provided in this video is suited for computers that have around 640K base memory. It was useful in 1982.
i have 16 GB of Physical RAM , i allocated 240 GB of my SSD for Virtual RAM, works for Architectural graphic and rendering
for performance it is not important how much virtual RAM you have, it is important that the minimum and maximum pagefile size are the same, so that Windows will not resize (ad possible fragment) the pagefile.
If you run out of virtual memory, your system gets not slower, but it gets unstable: applications and possibly even Windows itself will crash. It might appear to run slower, but in this case you actually have a crashed application or service that is stopped or restarted by Windows and your system is not slower, but it actually hangs completely before Windows treats the application or service. You usually will know the reason because you will get out of memory messages.
If you have so much RAM that it never runs out , you can actually disable the pagefile. For this 64Gb should be enough for almost everyone, for most people 16GB would be enough for this.
+rfvtgbzhn actually changing the pagefile settings could in theory defragment it (by deleting and recreating it) which could boost the performance a little
Background services can still be good for your pc. But i recommend you Programs more, especially if you're a gamer.
Dude you are supposed to do it in 2 different hard disks, not in 2 different partitions on the same drive.
Moving virtual memory to a secondary storage harddrive, and removing it on the system drive speeds up performance cause the system hardisk's head doesnt have to go back and forth reading both files and pagefile one at the time.
Moving pagefile to a secondary hardisk allows the first drive to read files smoothly while the other reads pagefile at the same time.
Also adding pagefile to many fast usb flash drives, especially if you have an older pc with low ram helps.
This usb thing helps only on old PCs with low specs, and only if more than one flash drive is used.
If not buy a hybrid SSHD drive for laptops, they are not expensive and are much much faster than normal HDDs. They are really an affordable game changer.
This is really for older computers. Hard drives are incredibly slow compared to main memory. This won't benefit you if you have a fair amount of memory and of a decent speed.
Hard drives are typically the slowest component in a computer beside the optical media drive.
Can this be used to go around the Ram limitation when you are under a 32bit Win architectur?
Previous SSD is toasted, had to re-install Win8, but for some reason he doesn't let me install thez 64bit version, so i'm stuck with a 32bit, and my 8Gh Ram is now reduced to 3Gh...
And its anoying the crap out of me...
I have 4gb of ram on my pc how high do you recommend me to put it without ruining my pc
Depends on the computer, most gaming laptops have a max of 16gb or 32gb RAM(for the really expensive ones)Now that's what they allow without voiding the warranty.(Doesn't always mean you can't put more)But for most uses over 16gb Ram is overkill. Plus I believe you need the Windows 7 Ultimate or Professional to actually use all 16gb of ram,because premium will recognize it but not use it all.For example it will say something like 16gb ram ,12gb available for use.At least that's what I've heard.
Hi, I need your help. I have 8GB ram my laptop is i5. I need to know my maximum recommended RAM to set on Custom size is 4588. But on your Laptop shown bigger than yours how can i make it more bigger?
But... I have no initial size and maximum size written on the virtual memory? Help me please.
Hi i have a problem.I have 8 gb ram but only 4gb is usable,my total paping file size for all drivers are minimum allowed 16mb,recommended 6142 and currently allocated 4095 why and what should i do??
i have a COMPAQ that has a 360 Hard Drive, 2 gigs of ram and is about 8 years old and runs extremely slow any help on making it faster?
The amount of RAM does affect the speed of your computer as long as you have it tuned properly. If you have a cluttered OS with numerous programs running memory resident, then it wont matter, since your computer for the most part will just eat up whatever extra RAM you put in. The key is to optimize your system for the best performance possible, so that RAM you install will make a sizable difference.
RAM always has, and still is, (one of the) the most cost-effective upgrades you can install, as long as its upgraded properly. Many people say its not, because they dont actually notice it booting faster, or loading certain programs faster. If you run a real hardware benchmark program before and after the RAM upgrade, you will notice it especially will boost the speed when using a RAM intensive program, or game. The key is to use the fastest RAM possible for your current setup, taking into account the CPU and the bus speed. Windows 7 benchmark feature is on the primitive side, but it does at leave give you a baseline to work with. Upgrading the amount of RAM usually wont improve the RAM score even if it helps your OS out. Installing faster RAM will...
As far as this video goes.. Just changing virtual memory settings will not do much of anything. If its done in conjunction with other forms of optimization, it will help a bit, but its not noticeable.
I often see people beefing up their virtual RAM on a cluttered OS with an older hard drive with less then ideal space available, and that will actually slow down your computer, and that WILL be noticeable.
Also if you have motherboard with built-in video, do yourself a favor and pick up a video card. You dont need to be a gamer to realize the nice boost it can give you. You will be able to run your video without borrowing resources from your system such as RAM for the video memory, and it will allow more power from your CPU to be dedicated to the OS.
What i don't get where should i change those numbers,i mean at 3:25,he has C: and D:,and he puts it in the first one,that means,that i must put the numbers in the first one,or must i put in the one with where windows is install,or OS or whatever it is called,or where i want to boost my game,in my case i want to boost the speed of games!It may sound stupid or nonsense what i just said,but please someone help!
Dude this is so cool never knew a usb could do that would that be almost like adding ram?
+GadgetWorm I got 4gb RAM and it says its 2.00gb usable and sometimes when i play a game or if i am in 1 website its coming error and says to save my files..and after about 2-3 mins its automatic close my website or game that i've been playing. Can any1 help me please? Thanks ^^
how bad is it if I make my Initial size larger than the number I found using the method on the calculator that you suggested?
What would actually help is , while you have that same tab open (Performance options) click the "Visual Effects" tab and then select "Best Performance" ...all this does is remove useless windows fades, animations and visual gimmicks ...thus freeing up the computer to do your actual work faster . DO NOT ADD MORE VIRTUAL MEMORY, ADD REAL RAM . The computer is slow bc is out of real RAM so it's now using virtual memory on slow hard drive memory .
For my D is no paging file and on C is 6015 MB like recommended.Should I set some for D or?
Okay, so my computer intially says that I have 8gb of ram. When I did the following insturctions, it says my recommended would be 4588, and the allocated ram 1280. Can you help me?
RAM and virtual memory are two quite different things.
RAM: Takes memory from your RAM unit. Faster and more efficient. Doesn't take up memory from HDD. If you want more you have to buy more though.
Virtual memory: Takes memory from your HDD. Slower and less safe than RAM (e.g running sims 2 purely on Virtual memory will be sluggish and causes glitches). Takes memory from your HDD. No big performance difference between having two times more virtual memory than RAM vs having 20 times more than RAM. So if you have 8 GB ram, 16 GB virtual memory is enough, more wont make any difference.
Virtual memory won't make your system faster. Optimum configuration is to have 3 partitions (or more), first is for pagefile (this is virtual memory for) and you make it like 1,5x of your physical ram, second is for OS and third for all data. Why to have pagefile partition first? Because it's on outer side where disk has bigger R/W speed and lower access times. Next, use some quality disk utility and test your disk up to which size it has best speeds and low access time, and do the partition up to this size, and use rest for data. For example, I've a 750GB WD black 7200rpm, and I've 24GB for my pagefile and my disk is fast up to 204-208GB, so I've created partition for my system in size of 180GB, so the pagefile and system are on most outer side of disk and it runs really really fast. Also I have i7 3840QM and 16GB of ram in my laptop, but the difference is pretty significant when I was testing 500GB 5400rpm drive, even if you partition it correctly, the difference is visible. Additionally, you've to set your pagefile to do a small memory dump onto your system partition, and set "Virtual memory" size on your partition to 401kb (small dump needs 400kb), and on partition meant to pagefile to the size of your partition minus 5MB. I assigned my pagefile partition a P: letter, and also you have to set all other that small kernel dump options to dump onto that partition.