Am I using too much pagefile ram?

closetwhisperer1

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After a good bit of gaming and monitoring using msi afterburner I noticed my pagefile usage was around 13gbs? I lagged alot in the game and i am wondering if this was the cause? I have 8gb of ram and it is only at 4gb usage while gaming? Why is all of my data being stored in the pagefile?
 

BrandonYoung

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You can reduce the available size of the page file, or totally remove it (probably not the safest thing to do).

If you were in fact using virtual memory for the game, this could absolutely cause slowdowns.

I would also make sure your CPU/GPU temperatures are safe, and they are not throttling causing slowdowns.
 

closetwhisperer1

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No throttling all of my temps were normal. I checked and I have 5196mb of virtual memory. Should i decrease it or not? At idle my ram usage is arounnd 1.7gb and my pagefile is around 2.2? That doesn't even soud right?