Question Page file insufficient forWarzone

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Motherboard: ASUS PRIME Z690M-PLUS D4 (mATX)
CPU: Intel Core i7 12700KF
GPU: Gigabyte 4060ti, 16GB
RAM: Corsair Vengeance lpx ddr4 3200mhz 16gb: 2x8GB
PSU: XFX Pro 650w semi modular (Bronze 80+ )

I recently bought a RTX 4060 TI 16GB and upgraded from GTX 1660 TI 6GB. The new card seems to work very well so I don't think the video card is the source of my problem.

I've upgraded because 1660 TI just couldn't cut it anymore in newer games and I could only manage to play Warzone on low settings.. so time for an upgrade.

Now that I have upgraded every game runs very smoothly, high FPS, etc. BUT I get crashes in Warzone when the warm up round is completed and your off to deployment. Most of the times the crash seems to happen during the "cut scene" between warm up round and deployment round... Sometimes I can play a little and the game crashes at some later point.

First, I didn't get any error message at all but after a couple of times I saw the error message from the game telling me my paging file size is insufficient. Now, I have some good deal of experience with the paging file back in the hay days but never really gave it a thought in modern times. Normally, I just have windows set to auto manage the page file size.

I had a look at the task managers performance view and I see my 16GB memory is 94% utilized when playing Warzone. Other games I seem to be more around 80% (ie BF2042).

Now to my question.
1/ In general I shouldn't really be needing to manually fiddle around the page file size, correct?
2/ 16 GB should be sufficient for Warzone (I believe recommended is 12 GB). Am I missing something here?
3/ If I need to set a page file size manually, what would you recommend?
4/ My SSD for the OS has 24 GB free space. I would believe that is plenty for running games without issues?
5/ Does it make a difference if the paging file is setup on the OS drive or the "Gaming drive" (both SSD)

I just ordered 2 sticks of the same RAM so I'll be increasing to 32 GB. I'm hoping this will make the whole issue dissapear and the paging file size should not matter again.. But I still don't understand why this is an issue when the recommended is 12 GB. Perhaps the 12 GB RAM is for low graphic settings and not enough for high quality graphic settings.

"Funny story".. The Warzone series generally seems to curse my PC. In the past (Warzone 1.0) I had a i5 4570K with the 1660 ti 6 GB and I had constantly issues running the game without crashing as well. I spent alot of time isolating the issue and it turned out I had a bad memory stick, which I pulled out and the game ran fine afterwards. None other game or application ever complained about insufficient/fauly RAM. What is it with Warzone and being highly sensitive about the memory? Is the game suffering from memory leak in some way?

Anyhow, I'll let you know if the game runs normal with the extra added RAM.
 
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4)what the storage size? 24gb free space is low for an OS
2)depend on what other thing you are running on the background.
4) Well yeah, so this is why I brought that up as well. It's an older SSD only meant to contain the OS so it's only 100 GB. Gaming drive is a 2 TB SSD. I've been meaning to swap that out as well at some point.. And again, it hasn't been a problem with any other titles so far.

2) Sure, this is a machine only really dedicated for gaming so it's basically a clean install with a few applications in the background such as MSI Afterburner/RivaTuner. The biggest memory usage after the game, according to the task manager is Windows Defender with 350 MB memory usage.
 
So installing 16 gb more of memory solved it. Not sure why the page file wasn't big enough. While running the game the system used 16.8 GB of memory. I think it's strange the page file couldn't save a game for crashing when the "overflow" was so little. Unless I'm just not understanding the Page file entirely. I guess most people today has 32 gb of memory as minimum these days anyways.