howhow to increase my vitual memory...

[tagoy]

my pc's memory is 128MB..eveytime i will play games in my computer
there's a phrase in toolbars saying "virual memory too low"..pls tell
me how to increase my virtual memory so that i can play my games
without "lagging" or "disturbing my playtime...thanks!

 

[Xodiox]

tagoy skrev:

my pc's memory is 128MB..eveytime i will play games in my computer
there's a phrase in toolbars saying "virual memory too low"..pls tell
me how to increase my virtual memory so that i can play my games
without "lagging" or "disturbing my playtime...thanks!

If you want to have more virtual memory the best and easiet way is to
go and buy some new RAM to change from 128MB to 512MB.. This will help
i hope.

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Have you set a maximum for your page file? Increase or better still
remove the maximum.

http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm

Reading and writing to virtual memory is slower than to RAM memory. When
RAM memory is being fully used the system moves information to virtual
memory and therefore it is better from a performance point of view to
minimise this activity. Adding RAM memory will do this and buying
smaller memory modules is relatively cheap today.

Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to bring Task Manager and select the
Performance Tab. What is the Commit Charge? What was the Peak?
http://www.dummies.com/WileyCDA/DummiesArticle/id-1011.html

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Hope this helps.

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[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi tagoy,

The amount of physical ram installed is not the source of your problem,
though if all you have is 128MB then you would definitely benefit from an
increase. Virtual Memory is use of the hard drive to supplement the physical
ram, this is called paging and the file used for virtual memory is the
pagefile.sys. You will find it on the root of the boot drive. Three things
normally cause this "virtual memory too low" error:

1) You have placed a restriction on this under the system applet. On the
advanced tab click on performance settings, then on that advanced tab click
change. What is the maximum size? Sometimes people cap it at less than 4096,
and this is a mistake.

2) You are running out of disk space on the drive that holds the virtual
memory, so it cannot expand enough to accomodate the system's requirements.
Check the amount of disk space available on the drive/volume that holds the
paging file. If necessary, you may need to do some disk cleanup.

3) Do you have Intel Application Accelerator installed? If so, you need to
uninstall it and install the latest version. The older ones are incompatible
with WinXP and can cause this error message.

If not, then try this: Go to System properties/advanced/performance
settings/advanced tab/virtual memory change and disable the swap file.
Reboot - the system will probably be very slow, but let it complete all
normal processes. Delete all instances of pagefile.sys from all drives
should any exist, then reverse the original steps and reenable the swap
file. Reboot once more to finish. See if this helps.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Ron Martell]

my pc's memory is 128MB..eveytime i will play games in my computer
there's a phrase in toolbars saying "virual memory too low"..pls tell
me how to increase my virtual memory so that i can play my games
without "lagging" or "disturbing my playtime...thanks!

Open Control Panel - System - Advanced and click on the Settings
button in the Performance (top) section.
In the Performance Options window go to the Advanced tab.
In the Virtual Memory (bottom) section click on the Change button.

In the Virtual Memory window you will probably see the Custom size
option selected. If so then one way to get rid of the error message
would be to double the amounts entered for both the initial size and
the maximum size. Make sure you click the Set button twice before
clicking on OK. Then click on Apply and OK as needed to exit.

Reboot the computer and go back in and check to ensure that your new
values have been put into effect.


Note that this change should get rid of your error message but it will
do absolutely nothing for the actual performance of your computer. If
you need improved performance then what you need to do is to add more
RAM. With only 128 mb you will notice an immediate and very
substantial improvement from increased RAM. I suggest that you add at
least another 256 mb. Make sure you check out the exact RAM
specifications for your computer make and model as there are many
different types of RAM and you need to get an exact match for what is
already installed.

Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada