Last few months I have games crashing back to desktop (sometimes even BSOD). Following the usual troubleshooting paths didn't resolve this until I changed the virtual memory from auto (which only allocates 5000Mb) to minimum 1.5x RAM and max 3x RAM. This made the crashes in some games go away and in others made them less frequent. Now this didn't make any sense to me as I have 32Gb of physical memory and additional slow SSD memory (which is what virtual memory gives) shouldn't resolve any of these crashes. A memtest on the memory also showed no errors and the system is reporting the 32Gb of RAM correctly.
Suspecting an other underlying issue (bad driver) I did a full reinstall of Win 11 and wipe of the drives. Online however I found that "By default Windows will allocate virtual memory (pagefile) the same size as your RAM". After the reinstall I therefore rechecked my virtual memory and it only auto allocates 5000Mb for all stations on a system with 32Gb. Is this an indication that something memory related is still not working properly on the system?
Games in question that regularly gave crashes: Diablo 4 and Helldivers 2.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
Suspecting an other underlying issue (bad driver) I did a full reinstall of Win 11 and wipe of the drives. Online however I found that "By default Windows will allocate virtual memory (pagefile) the same size as your RAM". After the reinstall I therefore rechecked my virtual memory and it only auto allocates 5000Mb for all stations on a system with 32Gb. Is this an indication that something memory related is still not working properly on the system?
Games in question that regularly gave crashes: Diablo 4 and Helldivers 2.
Thanks in advance for any advice.