Pagefile ON vs OFF | Which performs better? #gaming #pagefile #performance

games just crash with out page file

I have 32GB, with pagefile in auto, it takes up 16GB.
I play GTA V in story mode only and modded it alot, not heavy but not light either, I can't barely get stable 60 fps. But with pagefile set to 8GB, I got 75 for days.

nvme 1tb 32gb ram and my pagefile is 2gb shoud i increase ?

thanks to test

The conclusion is objectively wrong, this is a margin of error. Some games even performed "better" without pagefile, but of course they don't produce the exact same number of frames every time because scheduler, OS, other apps, storage latency - even something like a slight difference in temperature of the hardware. There's no reason for a system with enough memory to perform worse without pagefile, in fact, there's a plenty of reasons why pagefile might negatively affect the system performance, because of the extra writes and reads the Windows potentially needs to do. The only thing this proves is that pagefile makes no measurable difference in framerates.
It makes sense to leave it on if you don't have enough memory (less than 24 GB) or if you need the coredump, but otherwise it brings nothing.
Disclaimer: Running without pagefile since 2012, never had a single issue.

How much free space you have in 16gb swap?

I have HP Victus 15 RTX 3050 16 GB Ram, i optimizam some Windows and Nvidia settings but i have sometimes problems with fps drop, will upgrading it to 32gb increase performance?

So, I've been having an "err_gfx_d3d_init" and have been told to use this page file method, will this help?
Because, I've done whatever the internet has told me to do but to no avail. So just writing this to make sure this would work. Please reply!!

thanks for this video, really interesting

Great vid man.

I have a laptop with 16 gb single channel ram and no extra slot to upgrade to dual channel unfortunately. Can I use this to make a virtual slot and run my laptop in dual channel mode? It’s a stretch I know but I would appreciate your input

Thanks for the video!

It is best to use a dedicated SSD for pagefile for best result, I personally use 200GB of pagefile.

0.8% difference = margin of error

win10 with 32gb ram (12400f) on auto uses 12gb pagefile. is it normal? i use a lot of lightroom and photoshop with raw files, hdr, panorma and gaming. Also on task manager with rtx3060 12gb shared GPU memory is 12gb. Is there any relation with the page file?

You pretty much cover most of the smaller element I always wondered about regarding performance on mid-range systems. While most channels cover these aspects of performance, you have this simplified way of rounding it up. As jy Afrikaans praat; dankie vir jou tyd en moeite! Waardeer dit baie dude.

I would prefer upgrading RAM, rather than using pagefile long-term for gaming, the performance of the HDD or SSD will decrease if pagefile usage is too intense in long-term gaming

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Thanks broo

this really depends on the game, ram hungry games like anno 1800 or cities skylines can somewhat benefit from a larger pagefile if your system does not have enough ram, though the average and 1% lows will suffer greatly due to the fact even pcie 5.0 nvme drives are at least 4 times slower then 3200mhz ddr4.

Good video.

I running 12gb of ram (4+8).. 4 being on board...2666mhz but my 8gb is only 2400mhz.. do you think it affects my fps ram speed is not the same?

gonna try this to combat crashes in several games, will report back (if i remember)

dude i love you for this, made a massive difference night and day bruh mine was set to like 6gb and youre right 8gb is the perfect one at least for 16gb thanks my guy for doing these tests that i know im too lazy to do myself ;)

I remember that i tried to set this up once my pc needed to be reinstalled

With 64gb ram ddr5 default its a bit over 9k mbs. I switched now to 8192mbs lets see how it goes.

sir so you still use 8gb paging file for ur daily use or no?

Nice video my friend but I think that the page file is here for stability purposes in gaming (less crashes) and not affecting the performance (FPS).
However a golden rule is that If u have 16GB of RAM or more is better to set page file min/max to 8,192. If u let the Windows to manage the page file might u face random crashes in gaming.

Can you benchmark the frametime stability and latency of different fps capper such as in game on the nvidia driver and on rtss

I love these types of videos that answer "how much fps does it actually give". As I am too lazy to find out myself anyways, I have a few friendly suggestions on this topic like how much fps razer cortex gives and how much fps using exclusive fullscreen give.

Didn't know that option before. I'll do some testing. Mine was set t0 24,000 mbs! lol. and max was set to 48,000

Interesting 🤔 GG

Loving these videos brother. Keep it up! 💪🏻