After MUCH stress and heartache I finally have my memory installed to give me 1gig of Ram. Now, the question is about virutal memory:

[Tessian]

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>The old rule of thumb I always heard when deciding the size of your virtual memory was to make it 1.5x the size of your physical memory. That was all well and good when I had 512meg...but do I really need 1.5GIG of hard drive space set aside for physical memory?

What do you all set yours to?</div>

[Sephy]

<div style='font: 12pt "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; '>around 300-400MB. No need for more. That 1.5 rule is antiquated.</div>

[Tessian]

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>I've had 640 for a long time...upped it to 900 guess I should roll it down a bit :) I thought that rule was outdated but haven't heard a better one to go by</div>

[Shellie]

<div style='font: 11pt georgia; text-align: left; '>Rule of thumb?! You know back in the day men were allowed to beat their wives as long as the stick was no larger thean the width of their thumb! ..sorry, just finished watching boondock saints ;)</div>

[Oracle]

<div style='font: bold 10pt ; text-align: left; '>Thought of the exact same thing when I read it :)</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I love that movie :-)</div>

[Torgo]

<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>"Should've been the rule o' the wrist"</div>

[Tessian]

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>ROFLOL, I saw that movie not even a month ago and almost forgot :P</div>

[Shellie]

<div style='font: 11pt georgia; text-align: left; '>"*holds up thumb* aye..cant do much damage with that now can we?"</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>The rule of thumb is to have enough memory to not use virtual memory. Ditch it! You have a fucking GIG of memory. You don't need any more, virtual or otherwise.</div>

[Tessian]

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>I have noticed a LOT less dumping when playing long sessions of AC2 ;)</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>You shouldn't have ANY dumping! Any game that uses a GIG of fucking memory is a waste of code and should be properly disposed of, deleted, and the box burned. Seriously, disable the virtual memory!</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>If it's needed, it gets used. If it's not needed, then it doesn't get used, so no harm done.</div>