Virtual Memory question

[Slicer]

I have 2 drives a C: and a D: and my VM Paging is on the D: drive with a size of 1024-3000 (I have 1 gig of ram) Which drive should I install the New Doom III game. Does it matter? TIA

[agent_smudge]

Hi Slicer,

When you say you have two drives, do you mean two physically seperate drives or two partitions on one drive?

If you have two physically seperate drives, you would probably benefit from having the program run on the C drive, seperate from the paging file, especially if they are both on seperate IDE channels (IMHO)

If it's just partitions, much of a muchness really.

Smudge

[Slicer]

Thanks, I have two physically seperate drives. So C: it is

[SiMoNsAyS]

Thanks, I have two physically seperate drives. So C: it is

if you have 2 differents HD you could benefit by having the VM page file on D: and the xp system core on C:, specially if drive D: it's faster or equal to C:. it's because when the system tries to read/write on the disk it has to do it on separate IDE channels and that speeds the system a bit, so C: XP+D3 and D: pagefile.sys

[graysky]

How much memory do you have? I just went to 1.0 gig on this machine and found that I don't need a page file at all. Have been running without one for about 6 weeks now and never had any errors.

[prathapml]

Install it on your D:

And set the pagefile to C:, with a constant value of 1.5xRAM (i.e., 1536 MB in your case).

These things start to matter when you feel your system is slowing down.