Does increasing virtual memory help gaming


















Same system with twin HDD and spluit pagefile drops loading down to consistently under 60 seconds. As for pagefile usage, contrary to popular belief it is still used heavily, even in systems with proper levels of RAM The more RAM your program wants, the more agefile the system will use.

If you dont have enough space for the RAM on the pagefile you will either be unable to use it all with your app, or you will have the system dump data completly and be stuck waiting on a hard fault search of the disk before you can continue. Load times for a map is below 2 seconds for me IMO trying to tweak to make up for not having enough RAM will give you a little performance bosot but not make up for it.

Besides the task for RAM is not to only speed up loading times Missing RAM has more sever problems like stuttering, fps drops, freezes. Skye View Profile View Posts. Short answer is no. In a gaming context it won't compensate for not having enough RAM. I used a USB 3. Was enough to get me playable frame rates where I had un playable stuttering before Though you will never hear me advise against more RAM, if one is simply limited on their options there are ways to make due You don't even need a PageFile, period But how much do speed and capacity actually matter for gaming?

Before we dive deep into benchmarks and conclusions, let me make a few things clear up front. I wanted to eliminate any hardware bottlenecks and see how the RAM performed under close-to-ideal conditions in both an AMD and an Intel test bed, which leads to two crucial observations. The first is that if your system is being hamstrung by slower hardware somewhere else, swapping in more or faster RAM won't yield much more performance.

Your RAM isn't going to affect your processor's speed or the transfer rate of your storage drives. The one exception to this maxim is the second, slightly contrary point I want to raise.

For rendering graphics, VRAM does a lot of the grunt work, which means that if you're working with an older GPU with a limited stash of VRAM, you're likely to see much more significant improvements in performance by increasing the amount of RAM available to your system.

Any time an application can utilize RAM in lieu of virtual memory on a hard drive you'll see improved performance, particularly in the consistency of frame times swapping between RAM and disk storage can result in noticeable microstuttering. I ran the benchmarks at p Ultra settings in each game five times and then averaged the results, as well as calculating 97 percentile results for each game and package.

Because our focus here was performance in games, I didn't test other applications or lean on additional synthetic testing. For each system, I tested four capacity thresholds—8GB, 16GB, 32GB, and to ensure we were testing at a capacity ceiling beyond which we'd only see plateaued results, 64GB.

Skill RAM I substituted had identical voltages, timings, and frequency to get as close as possible. AMD Ryzen 7 X capacity results. Cancel Submit.

DaveM Independent Advisor. Hi Senuke Typically, virtual Memory is set and managed by Windows, and you should continue to let Windows manage that, and most of the information you find on the Internet relates to older versions of Windows and low powered PC's To understand this better, RAM is very fast memory, and hard drive access is slow, so increasing virtual memory will definitely not make your PC faster, because of the data transfer rate to your hard drive If you want to increase the performance of your PC, buy another stick of RAM or if you have a standard hard drive, buy an SSD, that is the single biggest boost to performance you can have.

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