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[Houie]

So i wanna get back into playing bf2 in all but I my game was laggy and took forever so i looked back into all my help posts (and they were alot, im serious theres liek 20 topics i made) and i got it all right. But I read one post about paging. So i turned my paging off and i can alt tab so good. Now I only got 1g of memory but I still did it. Now when i load a map in bf2 it crashes and says no virtual memory. And im pretty sure thats becasue of disable paging. Im not sure how to turn it back on and I really dont want to turn it back on because i like alt tab w/ out waiting 1 min to finally get to firefox.


So any advice?

Thanks

[Catfish]

I have my paging disabled as well, and I have 2 gig of ram. If you're going to disable paging you really need more than 1 ... time for an upgrade? RAM's pretty cheap these days.

[Houie]

I dont have a job yet but how do i turn paging back on?

[Stormy{CAN}]

I have my paging disabled as well, and I have 2 gig of ram. If you're going to disable paging you really need more than 1 ... time for an upgrade? RAM's pretty cheap these days.

May explain why you have to restart your computer so much. Best advice is DO NOT disable it. Also you may think you have it disabled but XP still uses one,

There is a lot of bad advice and misunderstanding on the web of how virtual memory (and thus the page file) works in XP. For those interested in further reading check out Understanding Virtual Memory , Virtual Memory in Windows XP, and How to configure paging files for optimization and recovery in Windows XP. The following recommendations are based on research, information gathered around the web, and personal experience dealing in a variety of configurations.



1. The average user is best served by LEAVING THE PAGE FILE ALONE. XP does an excellent job of managing the page file settings for most people.

2. For 99.999% of the configurations on the planet you need a page file. XP itself wants one and a number of programs out there do too. (Please don’t email me to argue this, I won’t respond. Find a forum to argue about it.)

3. The recommendations below are not designed to give you the highest scores on a synthetic benchmark but to give you the best overall performance for your system (including stability). The size of hard drives today are huge and making the page file a little larger than it "needs" to be hurts nothing and you’re covered if you’re ever doing something that requires more.

http://www.tweakhoun...upertweaks5.htm

Same thing applies to making it smaller than the amount of ram, it should be at least the same size as installed ram.

[Why Two Kay]

Never turn the paging file off, there is minimal performance benefit in modern operating systems (Win2K/XP+) that use all the available RAM before residing in Pagefile/Swapfile.