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Michael Oberg 855611
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Michael Oberg 855611
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Just curious if setting my "Virtual Memory" higher if it could improve my FPS on FS9.

I have the following:

 

Dell Intel Core 2, Quad CPU

Q6600 @ 2.40 GHZ

4.0 GHZ RAM

Dual 512MB video cards (working together)

AGEIA Physics adapter

Windows XP

 

What would a good min/max setting be for Virtual Memory?

 

Thank you in advance.

 

Mike

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Sven Groot 1044304
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The answer's no. For one thing, you have plenty of physical RAM ([Mod - Happy Thoughts]uming your post's supposed to say 4GB), but even if that weren't the case, it wouldn't increase your FPS. Having more virtual memory gives you more breathing room if you run very memory-intensive apps, it doesn't normally affect performance on a game.

 

Also, no matter what all those performance tuning sites say, in 99.9% of all cases letting Windows handle virtual memory size is going to be the best option.

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Erhan Atesoglu 1050499
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Michael: If I were you I'd take a look at nhancer. Works great for FS9 terrible for FSX

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paul westcott
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Hi michael,

 

some advise it to be about 1.5 times the size of your ram, is a good place to start, but yeah as sven said, let windows take care of it.

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Michael Oberg 855611
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Thanks everyone.

 

Mike

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Luke Kolin
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Michael: If I were you I'd take a look at nhancer. Works great for FS9 terrible for FSX

 

Works great for FSX too.

 

Cheers!

 

Luke

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