Virtual Memory

[Guest]

Will disabling Window's virtual memory improve my computer's performance? I'm running a 1.1Ghz T-bird with 384 megs of RAM.

 

[ejsmith2]

It'll do some things faster, like defrag. the drive. But if you ever run something that really needs the drive (some programs just don't like ram), it'll cause a major slowdown. You'll know it when it happens; most likely you'll interpret it as a lockup, and hit the reset button.

A viable alternative is to grab a registry tweak. There's a setting that makes Nes98/Me use all available ram before going to the hard disk. That's what I do, anyways.....

 

[Guest]

Ok, thanks. Where can I get the registry tweak?

 

[ejsmith2]

I use xteq X-setup. It's the only tweaker that i've seen the setting in. Jump to <A HREF="http:// www.download.com" target="_new">http:// www.download.com</A> and do a search for 'xteq'.