Virtual Memory Low - Stop It

[Chris100682]

I have recently bought a new game for my PC (Footy Manager 05) and every so often it crashes and says my computer is running low on virtual memory, how do I stop this happening? your reccomendations are truly welcome as it's a proper head ache!! (plus I was beating Liverpool 2-0 at Anfiled in my game and it crashed half way through)

Heres my comp settings:

1.25ghz

128MB or RAM

Please help so I can play my game without the fear of it crashing!!

[bobjim1705]

To stop this happening, you'll need to increase your virtual memory.
To do this, go into the Control Panel, and open the System icon. (I'm assuming you're using Windows XP.)
Click on the 'Advanced' tab, then click on the 'Settings' button underneath the Performance heading.

Click on the Advanced tab in the new window, then click the 'Change' button underneath the virtual memory heading.

You can increase the virtual memory available by increasing these numbers. I can't remember offhand the optimum value for these, but it's come up here before, so I'm sure someone else will be say specifically what it should be.

[j2buttonsw]

I would buy more RAM as 128 MB is simply not enough and it is pretty cheap. If the computer uses virtual memory it is because there is not enough "real" memory (or RAM). A computer running on virtual memory is also much slower than one with enough RAM.

[homer75]

yep -- you need more RAM - changing the paging file size won't really help. virtual memory is a swap file system using the hard drive to try and compensate for this deficiency and slows everything down. The added strain on resources with this awkward data transfer means you are more liable to suffer crashes. The more RAM you have the easier the system can 'breathe'.

[commoner]

..ask for more ram from Santa..that is the real answer though bobjim's suggestion could help in the short term......Modern games are really ram hungry beasts and IMHO 500mb of ram would be the absolute minimum for good gaming, with a gigabyte being better.........commoner.