Virtualaughing wrote: ↑Sat, 2. Nov 19, 14:57
Any way to tell the game not to use virtual one?
I have 32 GB 1600 cl9 Vengenance (4x8 dual channel) Best one for my setup. The only crash with the game is with the crash report webpage telling me to enable auto virtual memory. That is just a HDD killer IMO. I have enabled the recommended size for crash reports only.
2012 almost the best setup a person can dream off..
Page file backed virtual memory is required for correct and stable system operation. It is used to backup the main memory for situations such as the computer going to sleep when vague persistence is required. If you have enough memory the I/O load from the page file will be practically 0 anyway so there really is no reason to turn it off.
The page file will only "kill" your HDD if you seriously have too little memory. Since you do not this is not a problem. For perspective at the rate I was wearing my one SSD, which included the page file on it while running 18 GB of memory, it would have taken 20+ years for the drive to reach its TBW guarantee. By this stage a superior replacement would be trivial and will likely have occurred many years earlier.
One cannot turn off virtual memory. Doing so will cause most applications to stop working correctly. Modern OSes and applications implicitly assume virtual memory is active as it is fundamental for secure and efficient operation. Virtual memory is the process of translating application specific virtual addresses to discontinuous or shared physical memory. It does not imply the use of a page file to back such memory, although it is recommended to have one for stable system operation.
Virtualaughing wrote: ↑Sat, 2. Nov 19, 14:57
If I buy a bigger SSD not for only the system drive but to install the game will that helps? I can live with the longer loading time at the start....
Depends on the condition and what your current SSD is. For ~£100 one can get a pretty good 1TB SATA 3.0 SSD which is more than enough to play X4 well (assuming the motherboard supports SATA 3.0).
You do want to keep your SSD under 80% loaded as otherwise it starts to suffer major performance degradation. For most applications there will be little difference between PCIe 3.0 and SATA 3.0 SSDs despite the large difference in peek performance, especially if one uses an old processor which bottlenecks the loading time anyway.
