I wouldn't advise to put the swap file on the external drive. Right now it's on your system drive, it'd better stay there. I'd recommend changing the initial size from 1152 to 1536, and leave maximum size as it is. Or you could set both initial size and maximum size to 2048. The latter option will take more hard disk space, but you still got 17 GB free, shouldn't be a problem. I always choose the second solution. Why? If Poser needs additional swap file space, it has a nasty tendency to crash, instead of just waiting for the OS to allocate the space. And allocating extra space beyond the initial size leads to fragmentation of your disk. While the extra swap file space will be released as soon as you reboot the system, other files will have fragmented due to this temporary disk allocation. My systems have more memory, (1 GB Athlon2700, 3Gb/3Gb swap file; 1.5 GB P4 2.8,3Gb/3Gb swap file, and 4 GB Athlon64, 6Gb/6Gb), so they also have larger swap files. One last rule: the swapfile should never be smaller than the physical memory size.

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