Windows 7 ultimate cached memory help please!!

[AssassinPride]

Well my pc spec are : i5 750 / 16gb ram (corsair vengeance) / gtx 760 msi gaming edition i think that is for the basic system spec but now i want to know something is that possible to put a "limit" to the Cached Memory? because half my ram are cached (8.5gb atm) and its kind of boring because when i play bf4 it use alot of ram and when my "free" ram is like near 50 my game freeze (sound and all other stuff work but cant move or shot its just freeze) i can close it with ctrl alt del but its happen alot of time for now so is there a way to limit the cached memory so ill get more "free" memory? Or is it a way to clear the cached memory?
PS:My english is bad sorry in advance and please help me

 

[NeverBackDown]

What exactly are you referring to? Is it the "free memory" in task manager? If so then that is an easy fix fortunately.

Just go to my computer- system properties(right under tools)- Advanced system properties- performance settings- advanced- virtual memory(change)- click on C drive and then custom size and change it... although this is where it gets dependent on your hardware.

If you have an SSD as a C drive and a HDD as a storage drive then just simply put the pagefile size onto the HDD and decide what to put it at. I suggest no less than 1024MB and no more than 2048MB.

Now if you have all SSDs in your system then just completely turn it off.
Personally with 16GB of ram I would turn it off completely, not really necessary to have a pagefile with 16GB of system ram.

 

[S_I_N]

yup totally agree turn that puppy off in an ssd based system Hell i even turn it off on hdd systems or limit it to 2000

 

[SuB]

DO NOT turn your page file off while playing BF4.

The game EXPLICITLY uses the page file to load data into, it's designed that way, (great one Dice!) regardless of your system spec or how much ram you have, the game self-limits to around 2.5~3gb of system memory and chucks the rest in the page file.

You want your page file to be setup to be min of 2048 max of 4096. You don't need it to be any more than that.

Turning your page file off completely or over-limiting it can and will cause engine crashes.

If you have enough ram, a cheeky way to make it a bit quicker is to use a ramdrive for your pagefile. Sounds stupid, but there's not a lot of stuff that will use more than 4gb anyway so the rest is just sat there doing nothing, might as well chuck in a couple of gig's worth of pagefile on a ramdrive!

Seriously though, if you're having trouble in bf4, don't whatever you do, turn off your page file. It was an issue in bf3, and even more so now in bf4 with the slightly higher memory usage.

 

[SPS]

I assume you're referring to the memory tab in the resource monitor?

As well as the free memory, standby memory is also technically free memory, this is the cache I assume you are referring to. Standby memory contains pages that have been removed from processes. If a process needs a page that is in the standby memory it is immediately returned to that process. Each page is prioritised and so If a process is requesting more memory than what is 'free' a low priority page is initialised and given to that process. This mechanism is designed increase efficiency and shouldn't need to be modified.

Hope that helps?

On a side note high modified memory is not good as that is memory that has been modified but not accessed in a while. High modified memory usually indicates that a process is leaking memory.

You can use RAMMap if you want a better understanding of where memory is being used.

 

[S_I_N]

funny my pagefile as mentioned is turned off and has been since I went ssd and battlefeild 3 and 4 no issues for me thus far. Turning off pagefie on an ssd system is a twaek to lengthen a ssd's lifes and to keep writes down.

 

[SPS]

funny my pagefile as mentioned is turned off and has been since I went ssd and battlefeild 3 and 4 no issues for me thus far. Turning off pagefie on an ssd system is a twaek to lengthen a ssd's lifes and to keep writes down.

Yes, this used to be a worry when SSDs costed so much, now not really.

If page files are the most optimal files to have on an SSD, due to the SSD's efficiency with small random reads and larger sequential writes.

 

[S_I_N]

Yes, this used to be a worry when SSDs costed so much, now not really.

If page files are the most optimal files to have on an SSD, due to the SSD's efficiency with small random reads and larger sequential writes.

if you have some data to back that up I'd be interested in reading it.Most agree those large write as well as frequent writes is what can potentially harm an ssd.

 

[SPS]

if you have some data to back that up I'd be interested in reading it.Most agree those large write as well as frequent writes is what can potentially harm an ssd.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/archive/2009/05/05/support-and-q-a-for-solid-state-drives-and.aspx

 

[S_I_N]

an article dated may 2009 lol ok I breezed thru it but will sit down and read it thoroughly here shortly.

While I agree the latest gen of ssd's might not need the tweaks their earlier cousins did. Theres still alot of performance benefits to tweaking one out. Anyway back on topic for the op lol sorry this went astray as it did

 

[NeverBackDown]

DO NOT turn your page file off while playing BF4.

The game EXPLICITLY uses the page file to load data into, it's designed that way, (great one Dice!) regardless of your system spec or how much ram you have, the game self-limits to around 2.5~3gb of system memory and chucks the rest in the page file.

You want your page file to be setup to be min of 2048 max of 4096. You don't need it to be any more than that.

Turning your page file off completely or over-limiting it can and will cause engine crashes.

If you have enough ram, a cheeky way to make it a bit quicker is to use a ramdrive for your pagefile. Sounds stupid, but there's not a lot of stuff that will use more than 4gb anyway so the rest is just sat there doing nothing, might as well chuck in a couple of gig's worth of pagefile on a ramdrive!

Seriously though, if you're having trouble in bf4, don't whatever you do, turn off your page file. It was an issue in bf3, and even more so now in bf4 with the slightly higher memory usage.

I have my pagefile off and never had an issue with Bf4 since launch. Not a big deal as you make it seem.. though i do agree Dice messed up by using the pagefile.. 2013 and most PCs have 4 or 8GB of ram-- we do not need a pagefile anymore these days.