pauliesss 2 Posted July 14, 2010 Well, after discussion with Dwarden via PM, I am starting this thread to find out the best settings of page file for Arma2/OA. As Dwarden suggested, probably the best person to answer this question is Suma, so if he wants to, he can also write his opinion about the page file settings. You can also write your own best settings, which performs best for you. Please, dont forget to write your PC specs(including OS 32/64 bit). Thanks. :) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MavericK96 0 Posted July 15, 2010 Well, before the latest OA betas and 1.07, I had been using about a 6 GB page file (basically Windows 7 chose the size itself). However, (I assume) after the introduction of LAA, I chanced turning off the page file entirely, and so far have not gotten any memory errors. I used to get Out of Memory errors when having the page file off before LAA, but now it seems to be fine without. I haven't tested this thoroughly enough to say for sure that it works entirely, but so far I haven't had any problem, nor with any other program. Running Win7 Pro x64 on 6 GB of RAM. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jpinard 10 Posted July 15, 2010 (edited) With 6 gig of RAM I set a permanent swap file size to 3 Gig. I have never had a memory error. Remember if you're going to set a permanent swap file size to make it perform as well as possible do the following: 1. Change system settings to no swap file. 2. Reboot. 3. Run disk cleanup and clear out all temp Internet Files, Temp files etc. 4. Manually locate the swap file and make sure it's really deleted (most of the time it's not). 5. Reboot again. 6. Run Defrag program. 7. Set swap file Min and Max size to same amount 3072 (if you use my figures) I could probably go with less than a 3 Gig swap file but I don't want risk OOM's or game crashes. * Windows 7 - 64-bit * Intel Core i7 920 2.66GHz overclocked to 4.3 GHz stable * Asus P6X58D Premium Motherboard BIOS v.0703 * G.Skill DDR3 2000 in Triple Channel Mode - 6 Gig * NVidia GeForce GTX 480 Driver v197.75 * PCIe Titanium Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatality * Planar PX2611W 26" widescreen LCD * Win7/Boot drive on 80 Gig Intel X25M SSD * ArmA2 installed by itself on second 80 Gig Intel X25M SSD Edited July 15, 2010 by jpinard Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CameronMcDonald 146 Posted July 15, 2010 I've got 12GB of RAM, so I keep my page file off. Since Suma added that LAA handling for 1.07, I haven't crashed once. :) Truly amazing times. Win 7 x64. i7 960 @ 4.35GHz. eVGA Classified LE. 1866MHz and 12GB o' Reaper DDR3. BFG GTX 285 SLi... watercooled n' shit. 3 x P256 SSDs RAID 0. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MavericK96 0 Posted July 15, 2010 Update: I did get a "low on memory" window pop up from Windows 7, telling me I was low on memory while playing. I decided to switch back to a small page file just in case, but the game never did crash. It kind of alt-tabbed me back to desktop, though, so that was annoying. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jpinard 10 Posted July 19, 2010 (edited) Update: I did get a "low on memory" window pop up from Windows 7, telling me I was low on memory while playing. I decided to switch back to a small page file just in case, but the game never did crash. It kind of alt-tabbed me back to desktop, though, so that was annoying. When I do some video and picture editing with older programs (not written for Win Vista/7) I got some major crashes when turning the swap file off. It just wasn't worth the hassle in the long run tweaking my swap file based on every program I was going to run. Many programs force reserve space on the swap file instead (or in addition to) RAM reserve because the programmers just expected people wouldn't have enough RAM. Edited July 19, 2010 by jpinard Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jack 0 Posted July 19, 2010 3 x P256 SSDs RAID 0. :eek: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
