BF2S Forums Pagefile Size ?

Either make it about 1.5Gig (1.5x RAM size), or let windows deal with it.

Some people find a fixed swapfile at 1.5x ram size is best, some find that letting windows set the size is best.

If you do go for the second option, try to keep your HDD defraged as much as possible - you also may want to try installing http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/PageDefrag.html.

Twist wrote:

If you WANT a pagefile, there's a few things to remember:

Why would he (or anybody) not want a pagefile?

Twist wrote:

One make sure that it's NOT on the system disk as you say

I think the jury's out on this one - sometimes the boot partition/disk is fastest, sometimes it's not - it depends very much on your system and the way you use it.

Twist wrote:

Two make sure that access to the file is FAST: Ie defrag the file

This is probably the most important factor - keep it defragged - I run that sysinternals defrag program on boot, and run diskeeper (a third-party windows defrag replacement) regularly and get very little swapfile lag.

Twist wrote:

Three make sure that programs dont swap to and from the file every second or two

The only way to stop that is to run fewer programs (not always acheivable) or buy more RAM (not always affordable).

Twist wrote:

Four make the file AT LEAST 22 MB+your memsize (double memsize is better if you have little mem).

I've always found 1.5x to 2x RAM size to be a better guideline size.

Yes, but if you don't have any pagefile then your limited by how much ram you've got - once you run out that's it, no where to go...

And also windows will swap stuff that isn't being used out of physical RAM just because it isn't being used - freeing up physical ram for those things that do want to use it - with no swap file everything must be loaded into physical RAM - including all those bits of windows code that most people never ever have any need for, particularly whilst playing bf2.

Even if you have 4GB of RAM you should still have a swapfile.

Good for you, I drive my car with the doors open and no seatbelts. Some people say it's a bad idea, but I've had no problems.