Computer crashing, low memory messages after changing Virtual Memory settings

[JohnTHDW]

Hello,

I've been experiencing sluggish performance, browsers were laggy and non responsive.

I found that the solution to improve performance was to change Virtual Memory values and disable "paging file size" for all drives.

Now the computer performance is amazing, everything responds properly but now I'm getting error messages of low memory and getting crashes. A few minutes ago the computer crashed to a black screeen.

Here are the values I have right now in Virtual Memory, what else should I do to stop these crashes? I already tried a few different values but the problem still persists.

Any suggestions?

Proccessor AMD 6300

GPU Ati Radeon 7790

8GB DDR3

Motherboard ASUS M5A97 R2.0 AM3+ AMD 970

 

[Colif]

Win 10 treats memory different to previous versions, when you close a program it doesn't dump the data onto your hard drive, but instead compresses it into ram so if you decide to reopen it again, it will load super fast. This works fine in coordination with a page file as if at any stage you need more ram, it can dump those programs into the page file and give you the space. Now if you have no page file, and then run a game that needs all your ram, windows has nowhere to put the other things like even itself and will crash.

You need a page file, Win 10 will hardly ever use it in normal operation, its only when you use heaps of ram that it will use it at all. Set it to system managed and ignore it. Mine is 16gb max but normally only used 429mb of space.

Best way to fix problem is buy an SSD as its more likely the drive creating the slow responses than the page file. That or run a defrag.

related. this explains memory usage as well: http://lifehacker.com/why-is-windows-10s-system-process-using-so-much-ram-1725076206

 

[JohnTHDW]

I don't understand, the computer was working "fine" previusly but like I said before sluggish after opening a few tabs, etc. Now the system is working perfectly but I get these random low virtual memory messages.

What's the quickest solution without having to go buy a SSD, any good values I could use?

 

[Colif]

try this
right click start button
choose power options
change power plan to performance, click change plan settings
set monitor and PC to never turn off, and in advanced power settings, set hdd to never turn off

this sets CPU to max speed and doesn't let hdd go to sleep when you not using it.

the low memory errors are cause you turned off page file.