My Paging File Size?

[PrimeSuspect]

Hey i want to know if i have my page file size right to play battlefield 2.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v393/primesuspect/pagingfilesize.jpg

specs
AMD AthlonXP 3200+ 2.21ghz
1gig RAM, 160 gb space
ATI Radeon x850 256mb
WinXp, 6 fans inside, 400 watt Antec psu.
my motherboard is a KT6 Delta MSI-6590 (v2.X) ATX Mainboard.
17 inch LCD flat screen monitor

 

[WhiteZero]

Pic dosent work.
However, your paging file should be about 1.5x your ammount of physical RAM.

 

[PrimeSuspect]

fixed now could u tell me what i should exactly put in?

 

[WhiteZero]

First, it looks like you have more than one harddrive. It's a good idea to put your paging file on a seperate hard drive from your OS, for a small performance boost. So if you want to do that:
For C: select "No paging file", click "Set"
The select one of your other drives and select "Custom Size", and set it to 1536 for Initial and Max. Then click Set.
Then you'll have to reboot.

Having a fixed size Paging file will prevent fragmentation of itself.
Your current settings actually arent bad and changing them won't really effect your BF2 performance. However, the settings I suggested are good practice.

 

[PrimeSuspect]

ty ty man . much aprreciate it

 

[bosox188]

What are the best settings for page file? Does it depend on your ram? I have 1gb, I have the initial at 1533 and maximum at 2000. And it's on my C drive, the second HDD doesn't have one. Anything I should change?

 

[WhiteZero]

What are the best settings for page file? Does it depend on your ram? I have 1gb, I have the initial at 1533 and maximum at 2000. And it's on my C drive, the second HDD doesn't have one. Anything I should change?

*points to his other posts*

your paging file should be about 1.5x your ammount of physical RAM

Having a fixed size Paging file will prevent fragmentation of itself.

So yah, follow my exact directions I just said, since you have 1GB of RAM and 2 hard drives.

 

[Dumb Dude]

Meh, eff the pagefile. I set it to only 500 megs max and I doing fine. Also, while on the subject of effing things, disable system restore. Uselessness taking up space everywhere I tell ya.

 

[WhiteZero]

Meh, eff the pagefile. I set it to only 500 megs max and I doing fine. Also, while on the subject of effing things, disable system restore. Uselessness taking up space everywhere I tell ya.

I've had System Restore save my ass on more than one occation. You can scale it down if you don't want it to take up so much hard drive space.

 

[ComradeBadger]

I thought pagefile + RAM should equal 2gb ? (at least)

 

[Revisedsoul]

http://www.petri.co.il/pagefile_optimization.htm

 

[WhiteZero]

http://www.petri.co.il/pagefile_optimization.htm

Pretty much has everything I already suggested.
However, it suggests have a small page file on your c: drive (inital: 2, max:50) for emergency use, which is probably a good idea too.
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