How to expand virtual memory ?

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Ferraz JG

I have a Pentium Celeron 1.8 with 128 MB of RAM memory
(Windows XP) and while using a game I receive a
message "You do not have enough virtual memory" and then
the game gets closed and I return to Windows.
How can I expand the virtual memory of my PC?
 
Your real problem my be that you do not have enough real memory 128meg is
pretty small for XP.
I would suggest 512meg if you really want to be happy with your XP system.
 
Gary said:
Your real problem my be that you do not have enough real memory 128meg
is pretty small for XP.
I would suggest 512meg if you really want to be happy with your XP
system.
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Yeah, you need at least 256MB of RAM and you don't tell us what video
card you have. If you have an older video card without much memory on
it, that will cause your problem also. You don't want a video card with
less than 32MB of RAM on it; more is better. Also, don't run a lot of
other programs while you're running a game. Games are very
processor-intensive.

Malke
 
Ferraz said:
I have a Pentium Celeron 1.8 with 128 MB of RAM memory
(Windows XP) and while using a game I receive a
message "You do not have enough virtual memory" and then
the game gets closed and I return to Windows.
How can I expand the virtual memory of my PC?
Click to expand...

Read up at www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm

The default settings for System managed IMO give you far too little page
file to cope with such a small size RAM - it makes the fallacious
assumption that you need more, not less page file as RAM gets bigger.

You change it at Control Panel - System - Advanced - in Performance
click Settings - Advanced - Virtual Memory - change. Select the C
Drive, take Custom, and I suggest an Initial value of 400 MB , max of
800 or even more. Then click Set and OK out, clicking Apply wherever
offered, and reboot
 
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