Should I just crank up my Virtual Memory?

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I read on some of the newsgroups for "Windows Movie Maker" of steps to try to enhance smoother playback, there's the suggestion to "up" my virtual memory size. Presently it is 384 MB. I have 256M Ram (60G hard Drive). I read the often cited Virtual Memory article ... um, that's a little technical ... I simply want to know: Can I just calibrate the size, click "Apply" and film video happily ever after? Didn't want to tinker with this setting before I asked advice here

Thanks, Michae

(Oh, how "high" should I make it?)
 
The virtual memory defaults at 1.5 times the RAM, I wouldnt
change it. I would increase the RAM to 512 and then you
will find some improvement. Cheers.
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I read on some of the newsgroups for "Windows Movie Maker"
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of steps to try to enhance smoother playback, there's the
suggestion to "up" my virtual memory size. Presently it is
384 MB. I have 256M Ram (60G hard Drive). I read the often
cited Virtual Memory article ... um, that's a little
technical ... I simply want to know: Can I just calibrate
the size, click "Apply" and film video happily ever after?
Didn't want to tinker with this setting before I asked
advice here.
 
That is very helpful; maybe helps explain why at one time, I actually had clean, smooth video playback, and it evolved into this skippy, jerky condition. I did do a defrag recently (but not with setting the vr to 0) ,,, will try what you recommend, but gee, the defrag (last time anyway) took hours! (that normal?

But I leep thinking, I once had smoth video with just the ram on board, (256m) so I know it's possible ,,, I'm do the defrag thing you mentionsed with vr=0

Thanks for so much help

Michael
 
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