Lots of Pagefile used by games instead of RAM - Causes frame drops

Addi_P

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Hello and thanks for clicking on my question!

I have recently been getting low system performance. After some monitoring I discovered that all the games I play use more pagefile than RAM. In games with better graphics I noticed that my pagefile maxes out. I use MSI Afterburner to monitor this sort of stuff. Whenever it does max out, I start getting frame drops and even huge freezes.

I have 16gb of RAM and the games I play use 4-6 gigabytes of it and up to around 9000 megabytes of pagefile (which is also the max). Is there something I can do to fix this? Shouldn't windows auto-increase the capacity of pagefile?

-Thanks in advance!
 
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Normally it will make around 1.5x your physical memory installed. Can you confirm that all that 16 Gigs of Physical RAM is usable on your system?
You can also check the option where Pagefile is system monitored

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Normally it will make around 1.5x your physical memory installed. Can you confirm that all that 16 Gigs of Physical RAM is usable on your system?
You can also check the option where Pagefile is system monitored
 
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Addi_P

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Thanks for your reply vesp3r,

I will try checking that box once again although according to Afterburner the max amount of pagefile locks at around 9gigs no matter what I do (including manually assigning the max amount of pagefile).

According to task manager again, 15.9gigs out of 16 of RAM are usable so everything is cool there.