High end system, still lowish FPS

[tizubythefizo]

@Diraco

Read this...

http://lifehacker.com/5426041/unders...dnt-disable-it

Nothing good can come from keeping paging off. People that say it's good have no idea what they're talking about. DO NOT LISTEN TO THEM.

The page file is only used when A) it needs to be (some apps and sometimes windows itself demands it. Windows will just turn on PF when it needs it and won't tell you). B)You've got a program minimized for a long period of time. It's not active, and doesn't need to hold up space in RAM.

You've got 4 GB, that's not enough to try to run without PF. You will eventually end up with some funky errors/weird behavior (that chances are you won't even attribute to the missing PF).

It's bad mojo, baaaad mojo. A system crash due to lack of memory is a baaaaaaad thing. no bueno. But don't take my word for it, read the article.

*EDIT*

Also read...

http://serverfault.com/questions/236...ne/23684#23684

and the links he posts to get a better understanding of virtual memory and how windows handles it.

Fact: If you don't fully understand how PF is used by windows, how memory allocation works, how paging works

DON'T MESS WITH IT.

Would you just start pulling wires on a car without knowing exactly what will happen/what could happen?

[Diraco]

@Diraco

If you are only running XIV (which isn't large-address aware), and a minimal set of services, 4gb is plenty. I have yet to see XIV use much over 1.2GB, even. Most people want to run more than one thing at a time these days, though, along with a virus scanner, and they don't mess with any background stuff.
So, it's true: the paging file shouldn't be disabled on a machine with a workload that isn't carefully controlled. Best to just leave it on!