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| Why does Windows XP use pagefile? |
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| #1 By 72925 (130.76.32.16) at Monday, January 29, 2007 10:01:46 AM |
| Why does Windows XP use pagefile when I have 2GB of RAM? I play WoW as I'm sure many of you do. I open my task manager and view the WoW.exe process. It is only taking up 450MB of physical memory. The game is still taking it's textures from the HDD when it could be loading more of them into memory to increase performance. Is this due to programming in the game that prevents it from using more memory? I just want a definitive answer. I've been wondering about this for a while. Why does Windows use pagefile, when it really doesn't need to? I've run games with the pagefile disabled just to see if there was a performance increase. There isn't, it's pretty much the same, with the game taking it's textures fro mthe HDD rather than preloading them into system memory. Why don't I see the game using 1GB of memory when i have more than enough to accomodate this load? |
