Want to increase you're in-game FPS?

[Falkor]

This is a known fact that removing your paging file completely will actually reduce system performance. This happens on all operating systems, not just windows. You want at least a 100-500MB page file no matter what. I typically set mine to 512MB.

Not to disagree or cause an argument but my XPS laptop runs fine without a paging file Also the performance for games and applications is the same as before if not slightly better.

I'm not saying it won't run good, I'm saying it can and will eventually cause performance problems over having a small paging file. If you don't believe me go read the many articles from kernel developers and other big names in operating systems for information.

I'm basing my facts here on experience rather then internet based articles which may be biast or have other reasons for saying this would cause problems.
I think we can agree though that unless you know what you are doing don't remove your paging file but rather make it smaller.

This is why I did not provide instructions how to do it as I don't want people just trying it without first understanding the implications

[blast3r]

but isn't needed with sufficient ram.

As per my first post ^At least someone else knows what I'm talking about

I think it depends on how many clients you are using. I don't think I would ever recommend not using a pagefile if you only have 2 gigs of memory and are running 5 wow clients. I think the number is around 8 gigs that makes it a viable option of not using a pagefile.

[Basilikos]

Upgrading you're ram does not help you're paging

I should have been more clear - I meant there needs to be more RAM in the machine to begin with. And yeah, I'll agree with you that letting the page file grow arbitrarily is a bad idea. Every computer I build has it's page file capped immediately after a windows installation.

[Catamer]

two things I like to do with the page file.
1.
if you have a second hard drive other than your boot drive put your page file on the second drive.
if you don't have a second drive then create a seperate partition on the hard drive ( and assign it dirve level P: for pagefile ) and put you pagefile on that partition ( do not use it for anything other than the pagefile )
2.
make you page file a fixed size instead of the growing version.

[king.pa]

I run vista 64 (6 month old) with 4 GB of ram... if I disable the pagefile I can only launch 3 wow.. when the 4 is launched and a toon loaded, all the wow colapse and they all need to quit because of the lack of ram ...

and I always had my Firefox launched with thousands of tabs (I love tabs, don't you ?)

So I'm now considering buying a new set of ram stick (2x4 GB) or 4x 2 GB .. but my system is O/C and I don't want to loose my 4 Ghz (471 FSB x 8.5 with a Quad Core Intel Q9550 on a Gigabyte EP45-UD3P, impressive cheap O/C board btw ) with a bad set of ram sticks, beside I read that two sticks works better than four...

But if I manage to get 8 GB of ram, I WILL remove my pagesys file.. for sure !!! or I'll put the pagesys on my raid0 volume.. but that the volume were I run my wow data .. having the data and the pagefile on the same drive isn't really a great idea...

So far, the best thing to do will be to buy four sticks of 4GB (near 110 € per stick) and have my wow data on a ramdrive ... but, again, with 4 GB of ram and the wow data on a raid0 (150 MB/sec on read outpout) is way enough to play well, but Dalaran is really a pain in the.... past 6pm and every WE.

I'll try to launch media player next time I play see if my fps are really boosted !!!

Edit : Hmm please excuse my faulty English, I stepped in a thread that is also related to english grammar... I'm improving myself everyday :whistling: but If I'm writing like a three years old kid, go ahead and correct me could be a good way to improve my 'English skills' without even respec :thumbsup:

[elsegundo]

what is the science/reason behind launching windows media player? sorry if this was already covered. there was a grammar lesson i had to sift through.

[Shaitan256]

btw, WB Falkor (!)

So The Pagefile (Just to get it clear) Is this Virtual Memory (direct Translation from German)? You can set under:
Control Panel
System
Advanced
Systemperformance (or something like that)

Edit: Thanks

Just want to be sure not that I do something different and my PC isn't working anymore.^^

Seems only to work if you have enough Ram. The thing with the WMP is an old tipp, but never really tried it, someone of my old raiding guiled told it, I said I don't give a crap because Single Boxing doesn't take so much performance (didn't even know boxing exists btw)

[Kaynin]

So The Pagefile (Just to get it clear) Is this Virtual Memory (direct Translation from German)?

Correct!

[Basilikos]

what is the science/reason behind launching windows media player? sorry if this was already covered. there was a grammar lesson i had to sift through.

There was a link in the original post that dealt with this subject.

[elsegundo]

what is the science/reason behind launching windows media player? sorry if this was already covered. there was a grammar lesson i had to sift through.

There was a link in the original post that dealt with this subject.

thanks. i read that but it didnt really explain the "how". but well.. i'll have to reread it and try to understand the process.