Page File Tip

[DigitalEngine]

There has got to be hundreds of threads on this forum by now entitled something such as;

...performance or fps drop after last update...

or some such. It's as if folks are not event reading the titles of the last 2 to 8 threads down which have been created or posted too, which makes this forum so much less helpful. :doh:

So in the same spirit of it all, :surrender:

 

I'd thought I'd re-post a tip here by Mustang which made a fairly noticeable difference for my system (see specs in signature) in single player and multiplayer, and that's in VR with the HTC Vive to boot. I was surprised! :clap:

Anyway here it is below, and the original post can be found here.

Thanks to Mustang :beer:, and hoping this thread helps anyone who is having performance issues [mostly all of us (and I'm referring to DCS World, only :censored: )],

and who has the ability to read the thread titles more than the first two down from the top... :huh::smartass:

 

Do this guys, set your pagefile to custom 16384 - 16384 and you should be able to enter any server and fly for hours.

 

Edited December 18, 2018 by DigitalEngine
Grammatical

[Svsmokey]

Thanks for that !

[ExGreyFox]

This would be for the pagefile on the SSD where DCS is installed right? Not OS SSD?

[Svsmokey]

Appears to be OS SSD , which is where i have mine as well , although i am thinking of getting a dedicated SSD for the purpose .

[SnowTiger]

Does this apply to those with only 16 Gigs of RAM ?

[Svsmokey]

Normally 2x ram

[SnowTiger]

Thank you.

[paradox64]

Appears to be OS SSD , which is where i have mine as well , although i am thinking of getting a dedicated SSD for the purpose .

Using a dedicated ssd for swap since years, it work very good !

[SnowTiger]

So I now have a 1 TB SSD (nand) for Windows and DCS.

I also have a 250 GB SSD that I "did have" DCS only on it but reinstalled to the 1 TB SSD.

 

Should I set the Page File to use the main SSD or the 250 or does it matter ?

[Svsmokey]

Using a dedicated ssd for swap since years, it work very good !

 

Yeah , nice not to have to worry about OS or DCS SSD , given DCS heavy use of swap file .

 

@ snowtiger , i hope that answers your question .

[amazingme]

Recommended (by Micro$oft) swap size should be 1.5 x RAM.

[SnowTiger]

Actually, the Formula I used is 1024 x RAM x 1.5

 

I have 16 Gigs of RAM.

Therefore,

 

1024 x 16 x 1.5 = 24,576

 

24765 is the MAXIMUM Page File Size

 

I set my Minimum at 20000.

[Precog]

So if my DCS is installed on another SSD, do i allocate a page file size for this drive as well? or just the drive my OS is installed on?

[Goa]

actually there is 0 difference between having dcs installed on same windows SSD or have it on another separate SSD :)

[SnowTiger]

BTW - Even after setting a new Page File size (much larger than previous aka now Max'd), I still continue to get Connection Timed Out as I just did on the 104th Phoenix Server a few minutes ago.

My Ping was 55.

 

So I'm at a loss as to why this continues to happen.

However, I will note that the Time Out doesn't appear to be as frequent.

But why should this be happening at all ?

[Goa]

BTW - Even after setting a new Page File size (much larger than previous aka now Max'd), I still continue to get Connection Timed Out as I just did on the 104th Phoenix Server a few minutes ago.

My Ping was 55.

 

So I'm at a loss as to why this continues to happen.

However, I will note that the Time Out doesn't appear to be as frequent.

But why should this be happening at all ?

 

 

Maybe its related to your internet connection

[BadHabit]

I use the recommended size from mustang and it works so far but will try also this thnx guys!

[ricktoberfest]

Using a dedicated ssd for swap since years, it work very good !

 

 

 

Which method? I’ve thought about this but never done it

 

 

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[paradox64]

Sorry, I just see you post

 

I use a dedicated ssd samsung evo 128Go only to put swap file.

It have a drive letter for it but i don't use it for anything else.

I manually fixed a swap file on it and removed the one on C:

My os is french but you can see on the first post of this tread.

Was it your question ?

Edited February 4, 2019 by paradox64

[BitMaster]

Sorry, I just see you post

 

I use a dedicated ssd samsung evo 128Go only to put swap file.

It have a drive letter for it but i don't use it for anything else.

I manually fixed a swap file on it and removed the one on C:

My os is french but you can see on the first post of this tread.

Was it your question ?

:thumbup:

[Goa]

I have previously set pagefile on my samsung evo 970 evo to a swap of 32gb and it was causing sudden CTD for some reasons, I know switched back to "let windows control it automatically", and no more crashes.

[paradox64]

I have previously set pagefile on my samsung evo 970 evo to a swap of 32gb and it was causing sudden CTD for some reasons, I know switched back to "let windows control it automatically", and no more crashes.

There is so many reasons possible but it look like a hardware problem. Was it a dedicated swap ssd or your os one ?