Virtual Memory Failure

[Fanos]

Hi All - tried searching but ther eseems to be nothing
here so her goes:

I have a Pentium 4 1.9ghz system with 512k Rambus. The
hard drive is partitioned with 2 GB available still on the
initial drive and 40GB on the second drive. I am running
Win XP Professional.

When I set the virtual memory to recommended (either
manually or system recomended) the PC takes far too long
to boot up - and then when it does a message appears
saying no pagefile exists or is too low - and then
instructs me to change my virtual memory settings. It
just doesnt seem to detect everytime I change the settings
for the virtual memory. When running the PC with NO
memory allocated - it seems to boot up faster.

This wasnt a problem until I recently installed Medal of
Honor Breakthrough. Basically I can load the game fine
and the trailer plays fine - its just when I get to begin
a level the system crashes and the "no or low virtual
memory" message appears in the bottom right corner. The
message then goes on to say that it is re allocating my
memory to provide adequate virtual memory. The Medal of
Honor crash seems directly linked as the message does say
something like (failed to allocate 10345 kilobbytes) - I
have more than provided for this with an allocation of
1064mb. The only problem I can identify is that my system
does not recognise when I allocate the memory.

Ive not seen any posts like this so i really hope someone
can help.

Fanos

 

[Mike DeLeonardis]

have you tried putting the swap file on the 2nd drive?

 

[Guest]

Hi mike thanks for the response

What is the swap file and how do i do that? it is actually
one "physical" drive which is partitioned.

 

[Fanos]

Hi Mike thanks for the reply.

Im sorry for my cluelessness - what is the swap file?

just some further information - I actually have
one "physical" 80gb drive which is C:8gb and D:72gb

thanks

Fanos