Nance opened this issue on Jul 12, 2010 · 20 posts
ShawnDriscoll posted Fri, 16 July 2010 at 3:38 AM
Quote - Is there any benefit in setting fixed Virtual Memory using XPs max recommended settting?
Only if you are low on hard drive space would you keep Windows from grabbing too much for virtual RAM. My drive has 8BG left, so I could MAX out the setting if I don't plant to install any huge game like Fallout 3. I have System Restore turned off to get more drive space.
Slower hard drives will benefit by having the MAX set so that the virtual space is initialized at startup and not have to work at growing/shrinking the size during use. Helps with less fragging of the drive also.
Just don't turn off virtual RAM though, unless you want to learn a new definition for the word pain.