I've put a permanent 256 Megabyte swap file on drive D: and it does
pretty good.
Reason for choosing 256 MB in my case is because of large POV memory
needed by a couple of memory-hog scenes. 128MB would be potentially too
small, so I didn't want to risk that and 256MB is plenty of room to
spare so no worries in the future. If you have the MS System Monitor
handy, run it with all the memory options chosen and take a look at what
your maximums are. They will no doubt be more than you expect if you
haven't checked into it before. The Windows swapfile is not much of a
gauge of memory used, seems to me.
So, if you have a second physical drive, scandisk and defrag it good, go
into Windows Virtual Memory and manually configure it.
I've not seen disk thrashing as much as I used to before I did this.


Stephen Lavedas wrote:
> 
> > 7       set the virtual memory to "own settings" - Min=40Mb(more if you think
you'll need it)-
> > -Max=300 (depends on free space)-
> Actually, I've been told that setting your swap file to twice your
> memory (unless you have 16 megs, then 3 times) with Min = 2 x Memory and
> Max 2 x Memory.  This creates a permanent swap file which works faster,
> and should be large enough.
> 
> Steve

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