 JuiceBox, on November 21 2012 - 04:20 PM, said:
JuiceBox, on November 21 2012 - 04:20 PM, said:
 ArnieF4440, on November 21 2012 - 04:17 PM, said:
ArnieF4440, on November 21 2012 - 04:17 PM, said:
I have a 9800GT and I'm playing on medium settings. Haven't come across this problem and I have only 1GB of VRAM.
Here's a question for you all, do you have paging enabled on your computer? (if you don't know what that is, NVM, cause it should be on by default). In the BF3 Beta, I got a DX11 (was when my 5970 was still running) ran out of video memory issue, but it turned out it was actually a RAM issue caused by paging being turned off (6GB of RAM then). My fix was to either turn on paging, or I just upgraded to 12GB of RAM, lol
Paging or otherwise known as the "Page File" should ALWAYS be left on no matter what. I have 8gb of ram in my system and I set a static pagefile size to 2gb and nothing more and nothing less.
 
No mate, that's naive. If you are concerned about debugging problems and system memory dumps, or you have programs that require (or check for) a page file, then you should leave it on. All paging does is use another (lower) level of the memory hierarchy for extra capacity, increasing the overall memory retrieval time if the data isn't stored in RAM. Its not very noticeable overall because of the way data is stored in RAM using Locality of Reference (wiki that), and the overall speed of hardware. (Computer Science bachelors is finally useful, lol!)
I'm running a 64-bit OS, 12GB of RAM, my page file is off and I'm running a SSD. So for me its better to not use a page file on my SSD (reduces the lifetime due to the increased reads and writes done if paging is on), or move it to a HDD, which I CBF doing. In terms of performance, it is meant to be faster, but usually there's not much of a noticeable performance benefit. Overall, it is safe to turn it off 
IF you have enough RAM
EDIT: Paging != page file. (I'm simplifying) Paging = memory management scheme that transfers data to and from RAM when you don't have enough RAM. Its slower cause it has to use slower speed hardware to access that data. Page file is just what is used for paging.
					
					
					
							Edited by ArnieF4440, November 21 2012 - 04:57 PM.