SATA seems to be slllooooowwww
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Blue
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K i wont say it's your ram
.. I will say however it's more likely to be a video card setting are somthing running in the background or a messy system (spyware) and such before I'd blame the HD.When gamming, the game is pretty much loaded into memory and accesses the HD durring level loads and such (Most games) If however you do find that the HD is being accessed alot durring your game then it's possible that something else besides the game is too blame.
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Blue
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Right click my computer, goto properties, click advanced tab, click settings (under Performance), click advanced, click change (under virtual memory), put a check in custom size, make initial and maximum size the same.
Usualy what you can just do is use the maximum size number for the initial size should be about 1 &1/2 amount of physical ram. although your not going to hurt anything if you put less or more but you may have performance issues say if you put 1 LOL all you'd have to do is go back and try a different value.
Usualy what you can just do is use the maximum size number for the initial size should be about 1 &1/2 amount of physical ram. although your not going to hurt anything if you put less or more but you may have performance issues say if you put 1 LOL all you'd have to do is go back and try a different value.
Blue
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you see where it says recommended? use that number for both initial and maximum size and reboot if it asks for it and your done.
If you choose to change the drive the swap file sits on then just set the swap file to 0 and then highlight the other drive and follow the instructions giving previously.
If you choose to change the drive the swap file sits on then just set the swap file to 0 and then highlight the other drive and follow the instructions giving previously.
Blue
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oh ya one more thing . you usualy want the swap file on a seperate drive then the applications your running which is the whole point to it in the first place so if you have Windows on one drive and games on another you would prob want to leave the file on the drive it's on for improved game performance.
. you usualy want the swap file on a seperate drive then the applications your running which is the whole point to it in the first place so if you have Windows on one drive and games on another you would prob want to leave the file on the drive it's on for improved game performance.
Blue
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It's cool
. Let me go through this once more.Change swapfile size and change swapfile drive:
- right click my computer.
- click on properties.
- click on advanced.
- click on settings under the performance section (visual effects,processer scheduling,memory usage,and virtual memory)
- click on advanced (next window)
- click change under virutual memory (you'll all your hard drives)
- choose custom size
- set your swapfile to zero (0) for initial size.
- set your swapfile to zero (0) for maximum size.
- click on set.
- click on the drive you want your swapfile to be on (example: drive D : )
- choose custom size.
- set initial size to aprox 1 1/2 of your ram. (1gb= 1536)
- set maximum size to the same as initial size (1536)
- click on set.
- click on ok and close all windows (reboot if windows prompts.
there I hope I did not miss something to further confuse the situation.
As praetor pointed out. It does help but not a world of difference but whith this small yet simple change as well as many others that can be performed such as turning off unneeded services can greatly improve overal performance of the operating system.
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