Virtual memory nearly exhausted during gaming?
Virtual memory nearly exhausted during gaming?
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Have you tried running another game besides World of Warcraft?
On Windows, VRAM consumes virtual addresses. I've maintained the pagefile size matching the VRAM capacity for years. If virtual addressing is restricted, you risk exhausting available addresses for your actual memory (DRAM) if the pagefile is too small. For Windows, virtual addressing equals DRAM size plus pagefile size. Without a pagefile, you're restricted to 32GiB of virtual addressing; using 20GiB would leave only 12GiB for VRAM. Also, virtual memory can be allocated for DRAM, but physical memory is reserved only when accessed, typically in 4KiB blocks (pages).