can windows virtual ram help

[mattmidori]

hello
so i am currentlly downloading my planetside 2 game , i have a rig powerfull enough to play it , but the weak point is the RAM (2GB not enough 🙁 ) but i managed to set windows virtual memory (total 6gb now) to i want to know if it will help at all

 

[herpaderpMan]

as far as i know ( and of my understanding of the "question" ) then no. but if you have allocated system ram to your graphics card, then yes, it should help (although not alot, since the clock rate of normal ram is usually around half of graphics card's ram )

 

[johnnyb105]

Your hard drive is physicaly slower then ram it may help some but it wont be like having the real thing installed remember win 7 vista ect having ready boost if you installed a thumb drive well it didn't really help much its why its not on the other os now.
Back in the day when win 3.1 and dos and 95 was out they had programs galore to buy saying it would double your ram but like the others it wasn't much help.

 

[Saberus]

Readyboost is pretty much a useless gimmick now, and difficult to make work when it did help.

Virtual RAM is not going to help a game, it creates a pagefile on the hard drive to store data from the RAM that's not currently in use, and can't be used until moved back onto the RAM.

 

[mattmidori]

ok guys thx for the replies , i guess il wait till i get "REAL RAM"
BTW i think herpaderpMan got lost in the question LOL

 

[delaro]

No it will not why not just upgrade to 4gb of RAM, I'm guess since your running 2gb it is a older machine. RAM 4gb is cheap less than $30 and older stuff like DDR2,DDR3 1066,1333 you can find for $17 and under.