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memory usage in games
Name: a_kraker99 Date: July 19, 2005 at 19:34:00 Pacific OS: XP Home CPU/Ram: 1536
Comment:
OK I have 1.5 gigs of ram and when i play battlefield 2 and I monitor ram usage it peaks out at around 580 mb. so why is it using 800 mb of pagefile? shouldnt it just use the system ram?
Windows isn't very good with memory management. Turn off your page file/virtual ram if you want.
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Response Number 3
Name: ham30 Date: July 20, 2005 at 07:41:00 Pacific
Reply:
I don't now why the page file is 800mb. But I suspect that if you monitor page file usage you will see that it's very low or nil. That's the important fact.
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