dooom Posted April 30, 2018 Posted April 30, 2018 I have DCS installed on an SSD Drive F. Currently my System manages my pagefile on Drive C (my windows install) to a max of 32 GB to reflect my physical RAM. I noted today that Drive F has no Paging File Size (MB) allocated when i review my Virtual Memory in the System Properties. Question - Should I select the option to have the system Automatically manage paging file size for all drives? would this help some of my MP loading woes? Cheers! ASUS Tuf Gaming Pro x570 / AMD Ryzen 7 5800X @ 3.8 / XFX Radeon 6900 XT / 64 GB DDR4 3200 "This was not in the Manual I did not read", cried the Noob" - BMBM, WWIIOL
Capn kamikaze Posted April 30, 2018 Posted April 30, 2018 I'd manually set it on a platter drive rather than an SSD and considering the amount of RAM you have I'd set it at no more than a couple of gig. You don't have to have it the same size as your RAM, and there are some tricks you can use to manage it a bit better. If you have plenty of RAM you don't really need a page file at all, except that some applications, especially older ones like to see it. In that case you can trick them by setting up a RAM drive, and setting aside a couple of gig as a drive and use that entirely, the advantage is it's as fast as RAM, because it IS RAM, and that your system still has a page file, so applications are happy.
Capn kamikaze Posted April 30, 2018 Posted April 30, 2018 Also I'd set your temp folder, internet temp folder and download directory to a platter too, to save writes to an SSD.
dooom Posted April 30, 2018 Author Posted April 30, 2018 yeah everything is on platter right now - only DCS is on my SSD... that said, it sounds like I can just leave everything as is then? should i manually set the min/max onC:// down to only a couple GB? whats the benefit of that if I can ask? ASUS Tuf Gaming Pro x570 / AMD Ryzen 7 5800X @ 3.8 / XFX Radeon 6900 XT / 64 GB DDR4 3200 "This was not in the Manual I did not read", cried the Noob" - BMBM, WWIIOL
Capn kamikaze Posted May 1, 2018 Posted May 1, 2018 Well for one, it's not needed, the page file should only be used if you're running out of RAM, and you're effectively wasting HDD space, it's basically of no benefit to you.
BitMaster Posted May 1, 2018 Posted May 1, 2018 Make all automatic, Win10 picks the best one at that moment. None should be smaller than your RAM if you set it manually. It won't wear out any modern SSD, BS ! Gigabyte Aorus X570S Master - Ryzen 5900X - Gskill 64GB 3200/CL14@3600/CL14 - Sapphire Nitro+ 7800XT - 4x Samsung 980Pro 1TB - 1x Samsung 870 Evo 1TB - 1x SanDisc 120GB SSD - Heatkiller IV - MoRa3-360LT@9x120mm Noctua F12 - Corsair AXi-1200 - TiR5-Pro - Warthog Hotas - Saitek Combat Pedals - Asus XG27ACG QHD 180Hz - Corsair K70 RGB Pro - Win11 Pro/Linux - Phanteks Evolv-X
BitMaster Posted May 1, 2018 Posted May 1, 2018 I'd manually set it on a platter drive rather than an SSD and considering the amount of RAM you have I'd set it at no more than a couple of gig. You don't have to have it the same size as your RAM, and there are some tricks you can use to manage it a bit better. If you have plenty of RAM you don't really need a page file at all, except that some applications, especially older ones like to see it. In that case you can trick them by setting up a RAM drive, and setting aside a couple of gig as a drive and use that entirely, the advantage is it's as fast as RAM, because it IS RAM, and that your system still has a page file, so applications are happy. My PageFile is constantly 20GB with the new OB and was/is 30GB with the current stable release. I have 32GB RAM too...and I have no issues rather than I have to be PATIENT, but it works, it works very good tbh. Having no PF is a shot in the knee caused by half-wisdom, no offence. Gigabyte Aorus X570S Master - Ryzen 5900X - Gskill 64GB 3200/CL14@3600/CL14 - Sapphire Nitro+ 7800XT - 4x Samsung 980Pro 1TB - 1x Samsung 870 Evo 1TB - 1x SanDisc 120GB SSD - Heatkiller IV - MoRa3-360LT@9x120mm Noctua F12 - Corsair AXi-1200 - TiR5-Pro - Warthog Hotas - Saitek Combat Pedals - Asus XG27ACG QHD 180Hz - Corsair K70 RGB Pro - Win11 Pro/Linux - Phanteks Evolv-X
Capn kamikaze Posted May 2, 2018 Posted May 2, 2018 We'll have to agree to disagree on that, if you're not maxing out your available RAM then the system should not write to the swap file at all, and as you said you have 32, and the current build is only using about 11.... So it should not need it, and any writes to any SSD will wear it out, it's just that with modern SSD's they've built in measures to reduce the rate.
Capn kamikaze Posted May 2, 2018 Posted May 2, 2018 http://www.dell.com/support/article/uk/en/ukbsdt1/sln156899/hard-drive-why-do-solid-state-devices-ssd-wear-out?lang=en Dell seem to agree, and it's only 5 months old 2017....
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