Pagefile Is Completely Disabled, But A Lot Of Virtual Memory Is Still Being Used

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Hey everyone, I have a question regarding virtual memory. I've only just noticed this as I haven't opened any full system monitoring software in a while.

So, whenever I do a fresh OS install, one of the first things I do is, disable Hibernation and Page File. But today I ran HWiNFO and saw that is was using virtual memory about 5-8GB when running a game and showed 10-15GB available too. This is on Win 10 by the way.
Am I being a derp, is this something else, I thought Pagefile and VM were one and the same???

Appreciate some feedback and advice.
Thanks
 
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So, even with pagefile completely disabled on all drives, virtual memory constantly being used to normal and fine?? Or yes it's normal, but disabling VM usage would be better??

The reason I ask is, a game I play seems to always use VM, between 3-10GB worth, and I keep getting memory leak/memory crashes. It's a freshly installed OS, a very well maintained PC so it's not full of crap, therefore I'm wondering if the VM usage is causing the issue.
 
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