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Virtual Memory Explained
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| Mon Nov 27, 2000 | 4:42P| PermaLink |
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Buying RAM sucks. Why buy more RAM when you can buy a faster hard drive or
a new video card right? Too often it seems gamers are left with less and
less RAM required to play games. Today at G3D:Gaming In 3D, they've written
up a quick guide explaining how Virtual Memory works and how you can
benenfit from it. Check it out!
"However the alternative is worse. Say you disable virtual memory, and you
ran an application that requires more than 128mb. When the program starts to
look for a memory spot higher than what you have, it will simply crash with
an Out of Memory message.
But, with virtual memory enabled, it'll start swapping. Swapping, as its
name states, is the process where some memory is transferred on the hard
drive to allow space for other tasks to take place, and these pieces of
information are "swapped". While it's not as fast as allowing the program
complete access to physical memory, it'll still run."
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FULL STORY @
GAMINGIN3D
(http://www.gamingin3d.com/reviews/memory/lessonofday.shtml)
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