The Doc 0 Report post Posted November 22, 2008 How is it possible to raise physical memory on VISTA? only tells me how to do it on XP... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
crazyjointje 0 Report post Posted November 22, 2008 Yahoo? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Doc 0 Report post Posted November 22, 2008 Yahoo gives similar results... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
♠Grim♂ Reaper 1666◙ 17 Report post Posted November 22, 2008 goo yah Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
«PC» 0 Report post Posted November 22, 2008 Heard of ReadyBoost? Hook up a exteral hard drive or flash drive and give some the space to Vista. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Doc 0 Report post Posted November 22, 2008 What is wrong with giving some space on my regular internal hard drive? Is it bad will it hurt my computer? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ELBdelorean 2 Report post Posted November 22, 2008 Get XP, Linux. OSX, 7, any flucking thing but Vista. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Doc 0 Report post Posted November 22, 2008 My laptop came with Vista I didn't buy my laptop my dad did and does linux even run GTA? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Saiyaman 0 Report post Posted November 22, 2008 You must suck at Google if you couldn't even find how to raise virtual memory... http://unlockforus.blogspot.com/2007/10/un...on-windows.html And physical memory is RAM. I have 8gb of virtual memory. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
☠Freak On A Leash☠ 0 Report post Posted November 22, 2008 couldent of said it better myself Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Doc 0 Report post Posted November 22, 2008 I found out how to raise physical memory on XP easily on Vista it was confusing since not everything was the same as XP and my Vista Laptop has a better graphics card than my dell. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
K.I.T.T. 2 Report post Posted November 23, 2008 i found it easily. mines at 12GB Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Doc 0 Report post Posted November 23, 2008 Does it hurt to raise physical memory. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
K.I.T.T. 2 Report post Posted November 23, 2008 why would it? it makes your computer a bit faster. only down side is it takes up HDD space, but if you can spare it that doesnt really matter Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joe Statler 0 Report post Posted November 23, 2008 hmm... But will a motherboard with maxed out RAM be able to handle raised memory which is HDD based? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
K.I.T.T. 2 Report post Posted November 23, 2008 your max virtual memory is 3 times your physical memory. my physical memory is 4gb therefore my max virtual is 12gb Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Doc 0 Report post Posted November 23, 2008 Does that mean if I had a 4 GB max I can only have 12 GB as virtual even if I had 12 GB on one drive and 12 GB on another, why are there memory limits? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
K.I.T.T. 2 Report post Posted November 23, 2008 i dont know why, there just are. some sort of hardware limitation i guess. and you can only have 12gb max, so you can have 6 on one and 6 on another, but not 12 on both. i have 9 on one and 3 on the other Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Doc 0 Report post Posted November 23, 2008 I have 8 hard drives... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Saiyaman 0 Report post Posted November 23, 2008 I have 8 hard drives... Then do 1.5gb each HDD Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Doc 0 Report post Posted November 23, 2008 If I used a flashdrive or external drive and put a page file in it for virtual memory and if i were to take it out someday would it be bad? I'm thinking of PC's idea of the flashdrive thing... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
daangelo29 5 Report post Posted November 23, 2008 i found it easily. mines at 12GB lol close enough. Mine's at 16GB. @The Doc: I haven't tried removing the flash drive while it's being used for freeing up virtual/physical memory in Vista before, since I don't like the risk of having my flash drive get broken. If you really going to use the ReadyBoost feature, you'll need a flash drive with bigger size. As far as I know, you can only use 1 flash drive for ReadyBoost. Also you can't use external hard drives for ReadyBoost, only flash drives. Using a 4GB flash drive would be best, if you would risk of having the flash drive plugged forever onto your PC that is. Once the flash drive's used for ReadyBoost, the flash drive will contain a huge file occupying most of the flash drive's space, making it almost or completely useless. Disabling ReadyBoost will remove that file. In your case, since you're using a laptop, using ReadyBoost will cause a bigger effect on your computer's performance so using ReadyBoost would be the best choice. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
