what is vitural memory?

Question

when i downloaded a game (warcraft) it became jerky then i got a pop up saying my computer was low on virtual memory and that it was addind more from other apps. what do i need to do to fix this?

Answer 1

This is NOT a bug or problem. Winodws and other OS use the hard drive for virtual memory storage when it runs out of proper memory (RAM/DRAM etc)

This does slow down the application/game a lot so to get the game back up to speed you need to make sure the computer does not need to use virtual memory. You can do this by installing or upgrading more DRAM.

1GB is about the minimum for any hard core app/game.

Answer 2

An imaginary memory area supported by some operating systems (for example, Windows but not DOS) in conjunction with the hardware. You can think of virtual memory as an alternate set of memory addresses. Programs use these virtual addresses rather than real addresses to store instructions and data. When the program is actually executed, the virtual addresses are converted into real memory addresses.
You can change this in System Properties>Advanced>Performance Settings>Advanced -Tab. The recommended setting is 1.5x's your physical RAM amount.

Answer 3

Virtual memory is hard drive space that is set aside so when your computer is running low on physical memory it can page the information in the memory to the hard drive. When it needs the information it pages the info back into memory.

Two things can fix this. One. Make sure you have enough installed memory to work with the program and then increase your virtual memory settings.

Answer 4

virtual memory is what you can see on the screen of you computer if your virtual memory is very low you computer will run extremely slow to fix this go to my computer right click and go to properties click the advanced tab and in the performance section click settings it will open up a new window click the advanced tab again on the bottom it show how much virtual memory you are using if its too slow click change another window will open up click custom size as much MB to use for virtual memory this decreases hard drive space but will make programs a lot faster one you are finished click OK in all of the windows to apply the settings windows will tell you to restart . restart the computer and it should be fine

Answer 5

ٍit's a part of the hard drive which The operating system(like Windows) deal with as a memory

Answer 6

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You can optimize virtual memory use by dividing the space between multiple drives and by removing space from slow or heavily accessed drives. To best optimize your virtual memory space, divide it among as many physical hard drives as possible. When you select drives, follow these guidelines: • Try to avoid having a paging file on the same drive as the system files.
• Avoid putting a paging file on a fault-tolerant drive such as a mirrored volume or a RAID-5 volume. Paging files do not require fault-tolerance, and some fault-tolerant computers experience slow data writes because they write data to multiple locations.
• Do not put multiple paging files on different partitions on the same physical disk drive.

How to manually change the size of the virtual memory paging file
You must be logged on as an administrator or as a member of the Administrators group to complete this procedure. If your computer is connected to a network, network policy settings may also prevent you from completing this procedure. 1. Click Start, click Run, and then type sysdm.cpl in the Open box.
2. Click the Advanced tab, and then click Settings under Performance.
3. Click the Advanced tab, and then click Change under Virtual memory.
4. Under Drive [Volume Label], click the drive that contains the paging file that you want to change.
5. Under Paging file size for selected drive, click Custom size, type a new paging file size in megabytes (MB) in the Initial size (MB) or Maximum size (MB) box, and then click Set.
If you decrease the size of either the initial or maximum paging file settings, you must restart your computer to see the effects of those changes. When you increase the paging file size, you typically do not have to restart your computer.

Notes• To have Windows select the best paging file size, click System managed size. The recommended minimum size is equivalent to 1.5 times the RAM on your computer, and 3 times that figure for the maximum size. For example, if you have 256 MB of RAM, the minimum size is 384 MB, and the maximum size is 1152 MB.
• For best performance, do not set the initial size to less than the minimum recommended size under Total paging file size for all drives. The recommended size is equivalent to 1.5 times the RAM on your computer. It is good practice to leave the paging file at its recommended size. However, you may increase its size if you frequently use programs that use much memory.
• To delete a paging file, set both the initial size and the maximum size to zero, or click No paging file. We strongly recommend that you do not disable or delete the paging file.

How to manually optimize the memory usage
You can optimize your computer's memory usage. If you use your computer primarily as a workstation instead of as a server, you can devote more memory to your programs. Your programs will work faster and your system cache size will remain the default size that came with Windows XP. You can also set aside more computer memory for a larger system cache if your computer is used primarily as a server, or if you use programs that require a larger cache. 1. Click Start, click Run, and then type sysdm.cpl in the Open box.
2. Click the Advanced tab, and then click Settings under Performance.
3. Click the Advanced tab, and then use one of the following methods under Memory usage: • Click Programs if you use your computer primarily as a workstation instead of as a server. This option allocates more memory to your programs.
• Click System cache if your computer is used primarily as a server or if you use programs that use a larger cache.

Answer 7

i think your hard disk space is so low .
operating system will need some space on the hard disk for tempoary use .
if your hard disk space is high than check your virtural memory settings in mycomputer -> properties