Pagefile on or off

[Gvgd94]

Hello all

I have a ssd 120gb samsung 840 and a western digital blue 1TB
Should i have a pagefile (i have 8gb ram) and can i just disable it or is it required for gaming? If it is can i just move it to the Caviar Blue without having problems ?

 

[kawininjazx]

Turn it off and see how it runs, you can always put it back on.

 

[Jim_L9]

Enable the page file on your Western Digital and disable it on your SSD.

 

[Gvgd94]

Enable the page file on your Western Digital and disable it on your SSD.

that shouldn give problems while gaming?

 

[RetiredChief]

With 8 gig's should be fine: However; this what I do. Set the Min and max to the same value, For my 8 and 16 gig Ram systems I use 1024 mbs which is way less than what uSoft defaults to which is typically upto 1.5 x ram. Will not miss 1 gig on SSD, But then you can set it to the HDD as Jim19 stated - But still set max and in both to 1024 mbs - I have always set max and min to same value Before the days of SSDs.

General comments: The only problem you will see with disabling it or setting to a low value like 1024 is that you may get a "out of Memory" error in which case you would just go in and bump it up a little - PS Ive yet to see the message. There are a few (probably very few) programs that will balk if NO page file is found weather they need it or Not.

Don't forget to turn Hibernation OFF - That can eat up about 6->8 gigs (hidden system file). Also Limit or disable Restore points. I think window will allocate upto 10% for this directory. Each restore point takes 300 MBs, so just 20 restore point = 6 gigs. I disable it, but instead you can limit the size to say 1.5 Gigs which will retain the latest 5 restore points.

 

[jaguarskx]

I suppose it depends on how much you multi-task. The more programs you have open, the higher the chances you will need to have a pagefile especially if they tend to be RAM hungry programs like Photoshop.

With a 8GB of RAM I think 4GB on the WD HDD should be fine. That's a small amount of space on a 1TB HDD (which generally works out to be around 930GB when formatted). Do not put the pagefile on the SSD.

 

[Jim_L9]

It won't give you any issues with gaming. What RetiredChief says about setting a minimum and maximum is good advice. There is overhead when the operating system has to resize the pagefile. If it were me I would set the pagefile on your hard drive to a min and max of 8 GB and disable it on the SSD.