MSI app for managing page files

[jaformhals]

I have an MSI Motherboard and I installed the MSI app ramdisk. I hope someone out there is familiar with it, it allows you to create a pagefile Drive and it allows you to adjust the size of the drive. I was wondering if any changes need to be made in performance options under the advanced tab where you would find virtual memory in Windows? My C drive pagefile is system managed by default and I left it at the default but the ramdisk drive that I created said pagefile size none and it also says no paging file (that option is selected).

 

[mazboy]

ummm...wow...I haven't heard the term ramdisk in so long I had to look it up to see if I remembered it correctly. Why in the world (at least in the Win10 world) would you ever want a ram disk? Win10 has a magnificent memory manager, and if you're running a fancy video card, it handles its own memory requirements (with the help of the OS and CPU, of course).

In the olden days a ramdisk was used to speed up programs that required a lot of (deadly slow) read/write to/from the HDD. In the modern world, a ramdisk is just not necessary (it wouldn't surprise me if it actually slowed down the overall speed of a computer). If you want faster throughput, install the max RAM the motherboard will support, get a SATA SSD, or, even better, a system with a bootable PCIe NVMe m.2 drive.

If I'm reading the blurb from MSI correctly, the only thing it is trying to do is what Win10 does already, automatically.

 

[jaformhals]

I had a feeling as most optimization programs take away from resources rather than add to them. (In my opinion) I shall uninstall ramdisk and let Windows do my page file managing. Thank you very much.