Virtual Memory:
Total Paging File Size for All Drives: 768 MB
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Virtual Memory:
Total Paging File Size for All Drives: 768 MB
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Try resizing it to recommended levels...didn't you bring RAM up to 2 GB?Originally Posted by DomHennig
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Also considering you may be working with video capture/ or conversion, you will want to take into consideration the largest file size that you may encounter with your video editing/capture/conversion software. It is better to have the minimum and maximum ammount of pagefile set as the same number; so it is a fixed pagefile.. This helps prevent fragmentation of the drive, and also prevents windows from trying to dynamically change the pagefile size.
This is the recommendation that I made back on page one, the suggestion was to use a fixed virtual memory/pagefile size, to do this you would set the minimum and maximum size to the same number.
"Minimum and maximum of 1.5 times your installed ram, so if you have 2 gb of ram, that's 3072 MB of hard drive space, set asside for Virtual memory.. Reconsider the maximum size if you are using GIANT video's 4+GB per file etc, then you will want to have virtual memory set to the biggest file size that you are most likely to encounter while working with things like video capture/encoding"
This means a minimum of 1.5 times the amount of installed ram, and then the maximum size equal to or greater than the largest expected video capture file size. Or, the minimum and maximum pagefile size is set to 25% larger than the expected total used memory durring video capture.
Video capture file sizes can exceede 4GB, if you don't have enough virtual memory and system memory "cumulative" 2GB plus 3gb=5GB, You may need to exceede the expected file size by 25% or 50%, to leave room in the MAIN system RAM/memory area for programs and processes.
If you have a maximum consumed total memory/virtual memory of 6GB durring a video capture, you would want to increase the page file size settings to 4GB+25% or total pagefile of 5120MB "minimum and maximum.. however, doing this put's the addresses of the virtual memory area in the main system RAM address space.. This consumes more regular system memory, reducing available RAM resouces for regular programs and applications...
The reason that I recommend the fixed pagefile size; minimum and maximum same number, is that you don't want windows to dynamically resize the pagefile in the middle of processes. If the memory is already full, windows may not be able to remember where data was at, prior to the dynamic pagefile resize...
The virtual memory was addressed to a specific part of the hard drive. It has the addressable area set in main memory, then that addressable area changes on the hard drive....
If windows forgets where data is stored on the hard drive, it will give you a memory read error in the form of a blue screen of death "stop error" because windows tries to look up the data that used to be on a certain part of the hard drive..
It's important to carefully plan the maximum ammount of pagefile that you might need.. and or reduce the videocapture total file size, so that you do not exceede the resouces available..
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Yes I did bring it up to 2GB. When I went to resize it do I click "System Managed Size"?
Or do I look where it says:
Total Paging File Size for All Drives
Minimum allowed: 2MB
Recommended: 3057MB
Currently Allocated: 768MB
And then type in 3057MB back up to the custom size? Here I will take a picture, lol you tell me. This might be it?
Last edited by DomHennig; 12-04-2009 at 01:09 PM.
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No, Custom Size
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I edited the above message, can you please re read it?
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I am not doing anything video. I am doing Audio recording, and that is just for about two hours.
I am the Radio Play-by-Play Broadcaster for the Ferris State Bulldogs Division 1 College Hockey team, and record all my broadcasts for future use. Just audio, no video.
So, is everything the same, just switch the video word with audio?
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Dom, how much RAM do you have on the computer?
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2GB of Ram
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Ok, then try these settings for your virtual memory, yours are too low.
1. Click Start, right click on My Computer and then click Properties
2. Click ” Advanced “.
3. At the ” Performance ” section click ” Settings ” .
4. Select ” Advanced ” and in the ” Virtual Memory ” click ” Change ” .
5. Custom Size ” and set BOTH the Initial Size and Maximum Size to 3072MB. Click ” Set ” .
6. Click Ok and restart your Computer.
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