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March 14th, 2004, 01:18 PM
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Where can i buy virtual memory...? i tried newegg.com but nothing!!  i want somehtin over 140 mb.. | 
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March 14th, 2004, 01:23 PM
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virtual memory is on your hard drive, hence, 'virtual', you cant see it, but it's there on the HDD. right click my compuer, on the desktop, then go down to properties, advanced, perfromance options, and under virtual memory, click change, and you can change the virtual memory there, try 500MB-1000MB, that'll be enough
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March 14th, 2004, 01:25 PM
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March 14th, 2004, 10:02 PM
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hahahaha, thanks I need a good laugh. LOL.
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March 14th, 2004, 10:20 PM
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Virtual memory is used when Windows needs more memory than your machine has. Example: you have 256mb of ram and what you are doing in Windows requires 300mb. So Windows writes 44mb of the data to the hard drive in a special file called a "swap file". It is much slower than using real ram memory but solves the problem of insufficient ram. 10-12 years ago ram was very expensive, I remember paying $160 for 4mb. At that time all machines were short on ram. It is not as much a problem today but the virtual memory system is still used. Hope that sheds some light on the subject.
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March 14th, 2004, 10:42 PM
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it sounds like you were wanting to buy some virtual memory because windows was giving a message that it was out...this indicates that you are indeed using the swap file....if you want to get some more real memory it will hep you system a great deal of difference in speed....if you tell us your system specs we can help you get some of the right type of memory
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March 15th, 2004, 05:47 PM
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thx a lot guys....i found out that i had to configure my virtual memory settings...i had an eror message saying that my virtual memory was low so i thought i had to buy or upgrade (im new to virtual memory  ) because this game was giving me a lot of BS...thx to extreme_gamer for telling me that i had to configure... | |
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March 15th, 2004, 06:15 PM
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if you are hitting the paging file hard ( as you seem to be ) I would reccomend going to crucial.com (or similar) and buynig more ram for that box ( unless it is already maxed out )
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March 15th, 2004, 08:29 PM
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