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Virtual Memory causing massive problems

Anonymous
2023-07-21T07:02:16+00:00

I very briefly changed my Virtual Memory settings on one of my older Laptops and it's caused massive problems. Is there any way to fix it, or put my computer back to the way it was before? For reference, Its a Nitro AN515-44 Laptop. - AMD Ryzen 5 4600H with Radeon Graphics 3.00 GHz, with 8GB of ram on it.(It has a 1TB SSD installed.) This isn't the best, but it's honestly was serviceable for 90% of the games I was playing even on higher graphic options.

I'm not getting an error message. but I do notice several apps are now working noticeably worse than before.

Ie, Steam Apps, Emulators, and other games as well. I'd like to reiterate that, I never had these issues before, and I only fiddled with the Virtual Memory for less than 5 minutes before changing it back to the way it was before.

Should I even change anything, or take it in to geek squad. I've been seeing threads saying that VM can quite literally destroy your SSD and Computer, etc. Well right now it feels as though my computer is slowly being destroyed.

I tried restring to an earlier date in hopes that it would help, but it didn't.

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  1. DaveM121 869.7K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2023-07-21T09:57:26+00:00

    If those are separate drives, then try moving the page file back to the C drive and remove the page file from the D drive, then restart the PC, then check the system performance, it is not true that virtual memory kills SSD drives, but if you play large games, then it would be best to purchase another 8GB of RAM to minimize the disk read/writes to the page file.

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-07-21T09:48:11+00:00

    They are separate drivers

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  2. DaveM121 869.7K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2023-07-21T09:09:28+00:00

    Thank you for the screenshots, are the C and D drives separate drivers or partitions on the same physical drive?

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-07-21T08:58:42+00:00

    Here, is this sufficient?

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  4. DaveM121 869.7K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2023-07-21T07:35:52+00:00

    Hi Christian,

    I am Dave, I will help you with this.

    Open the Virtual Memory settings utility, please provide a screenshot of your VM settings for each drive, if you have more than one drive.

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