can i use my hard drive as extra ram?

Question

is it possible to use some of your hard drive as extra ram because i want to play need for speed carbon on my pc i meet all the requrements exept for the ram is there a way to use my hard drive?

Answer 1

Try this.


When your computer runs low on physical memory, thats what your ram is, physical memory, it can use a portion of the hard drive to write extra memory to, this is called virtual memory.
Here is how to increase your virtual memory.

Right click my computer, and click properties.
Click the "advanced" tab, where you see performance, click "settings". Now click the "change" button under virtual memory.
Select "custom", in the box for "initial size", enter the number 1500, then in the "maximum size", enter the number 2000.
Click "set". Click "ok" to close the box. Now click "apply" then ok to close that window, and now you have up to 2 gig's of virtual memory....

This is still only a temporary fix, your computer will run alot slower when it writes to the disk for virtual memory....check out the link and try to get at least 512 mb extra of ram....

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/...

Answer 2

I think an easier answer is that your HDD already acts like virtual RAM, your PC also needs physical sitcks of RAM to work, just when it runs a bit low on RAM is relies on the virtual RAM. In XP windows will set a pagefile or you can set it to how much virtual RAM you want.

Answer 3

Not in a way that will help you conform to NFS's requirements. Also, be careful upgrading the RAM since it all runs at the speed of the slowest chip you have. Ask in your local computer repair shop.

Hope that helps,
Simon H

Answer 4

hard drive is used for safe your data which you want.ram is a different thing then ram so you purchase ram and then play a game.

Answer 5

certainly not. if that was possible everyone would start using hard disk instead of ram.