virtual memory.. abit of help please.

[reefsurfer]

Having some stuttering in Boiling point and im tweaking it.
In the read me it says this:
"Generally speaking, with less than 1GB of RAM, it is recommended you set the virtual memory to a page file size with a starting value of 1,5 GB."

Where do i do this, although i have 1gig of ram, i still wanna try it?

[bork[e]]

Right Click on My Computer > Advanced Then go to Advanced again, and at the botton it will say Virtual Memory.

[reefsurfer]

ok, thx...
this is what it says now(losely translated):
"Available space: 30454mb"
"Own size 1536"
"Maximal size 3072"

what should i set it to..

[bork[e]]

I wouldn't touch it, I doubt you'll see a difference tbh. All that does is use your harddrive as if it was RAM. Your hdd is gonna be slower than the RAM by far...I'm sure someone can actually explain this to you, but that's all I can really say right now.

[R00k]

ok, thx...
this is what it says now(losely translated):
"Available space: 30454mb"
"Own size 1536"
"Maximal size 3072"

what should i set it to..

Translated -- that means your page file is already set to 1.5 gigs. Actually it is anywhere from 1.5 - 3 gigs at any given time.

You already meet the pagefile requirements.

[DooMer]

I think its good to keep it small. hd's are slower. it has to search the space on hd for the shit to swap, more space, more shit to search. Its also better to keep it on a different hd than your boot drive, and gaming drive. the more heads cranking the better. At least thats what i figure.

[bitWISE]

I remember reading back in the day you should set it to exactly twice your ram.

[Cool Blue]

Pagefiles suckass. I killed mine a long time ago, however I had <i>one</i> app that couldn't work without one, so I had to re-enable paging. Pagefiles suckass.

[reefsurfer]

Ok, im leaving it as it is, thx guys.