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My new laptop came with Vista and since I only used XP in the past, my question is - what's the optimal page file size here?
As I used the guide from tweakguides.com for XP, I decided to use one from there for Vista. But the optimal pagefile sizes varied (and the same guy wrote both guides).
The guide says:
1GB RAM - Initial and Maximum Pagefile 2GB
2GB RAM - Initial and Maximum Pagefile 1GB
3-4GB RAM and more - Initial and Maximum Pagefile 512MB
Since I have 3 GB, I set it to 512MB and everything was fine, until I played some Battlefield 2142 and after some time the system ran out of memory and I had to close the game.
Could that be a problem with a memory leak in the game, or is my pagefile too small?
As I used the guide from tweakguides.com for XP, I decided to use one from there for Vista. But the optimal pagefile sizes varied (and the same guy wrote both guides).
The guide says:
1GB RAM - Initial and Maximum Pagefile 2GB
2GB RAM - Initial and Maximum Pagefile 1GB
3-4GB RAM and more - Initial and Maximum Pagefile 512MB
Since I have 3 GB, I set it to 512MB and everything was fine, until I played some Battlefield 2142 and after some time the system ran out of memory and I had to close the game.
Could that be a problem with a memory leak in the game, or is my pagefile too small?