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Silverback · 08-21-2002, 02:21 AM

[quote="=[DOA]=VonMeyer":38b3e]So what would this do to my game?[/quote:38b3e]
It smooths things out a little, sometimes Windoze decides for reasons best known to itself to swap some physical RAM out to virtual memory on disk. That's slow, and even more slow when an app such as MOH then asks for the memory, cos it has to go back to disk. You notice this with momentary glitches or pauses in game, both single and multiplayer.

The concept of virtual memory is good, its just whatever programmer wrote the algorithm that decides what to swap out when was clearly on drugs....

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Silverback is Offline Junior Member Posts: 21 Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: UK	08-21-2002, 02:21 AM [quote="=[DOA]=VonMeyer":38b3e]So what would this do to my game?[/quote:38b3e] It smooths things out a little, sometimes Windoze decides for reasons best known to itself to swap some physical RAM out to virtual memory on disk. That's slow, and even more slow when an app such as MOH then asks for the memory, cos it has to go back to disk. You notice this with momentary glitches or pauses in game, both single and multiplayer. The concept of virtual memory is good, its just whatever programmer wrote the algorithm that decides what to swap out when was clearly on drugs....