I take a ton of pics and video and I'm low on Virtual memory on my PC whats the best way to go RAM or other?
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Virtual Memory is the memory your computer uses when it runs out of Normal Memory. Normal Memory is RAM, Virtual Memory is a temporary file on your hard drive. If your computer is running low on Virtual Memory, it means your hard drive is near full. (As a general guide, you shouldn't run your hard drive at more then 90% full. You can check how full your hard drive is in "My Computer".) \n\nHard drives are very cheap right now. I suggest you buy a new one. Check out newegg.com for good prices and service. (One thing to watch for, your computer probably only supports ATA hard drives, so make sure you get either an ATA100 or an ATA133 hard drive.)\n\nIf you don't want to buy a new hard drive then you can always burn your files to CD, and then delete them. But you're going to need a LOT of CD's. 10 CD's will hold about 6.5 Gigs of data.\n\nThe other question you might be asking is, if Virtual Memory is the memory my computer uses only when I run out of Normal Memory, then do I need more Normal Memory (aka, RAM). The answer is no. It's normal on a computer to run out of normal memory, it isn't a big deal at all - that's why they have virtual memory. However, your computer will run faster if it doesn't need to use virtual ram. You will probably notice a big speed boost by increasing the amount of RAM in your system.\n\nSidebar:\nIf you continue to run your hard drive at a very full capacity, it's more likely to crash, in which case you might lose all data on the drive.\n\nAlso, Normal Memory is also called Physical Memory.
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Yes, video RAM is very important. It's what your video card uses to 'do all its thinking'.\nBy not having a lot of video memory, you could be 'choking' your system.\nRemember, RAM/Memory (video or system) is like cash; you can never have enough and the more the better.
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sounds like you need more Ram
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ram pc ram then video card . ATI  video cards are good there is update drives for them every 2 months from ATI  website\n3d rendering.. ids from ur video card
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technically: no, but in reality yes. RAM is always a much larger commodity than vid card memory. More ram will increase a systems performance much so than an increase in video memory. If worst comes to worst, you can allocated some  of your ram to be dedicated to the GPU so you actually have more graphics memory, but only do this if you have integrated graphics (which don't have onboard memory...duh.. thats why they are integrated) or if you have ram to spare (which doesnt occur often). You should probably upgrade to 1gig ram as it is one of the biggest "bang for your buck" upgrades out there right now. If i recall, tiger direct had a sale for a ddr400 (pc 3200) 512mb ram stick for $10 after rebate (though it was exorborantly overpriced to begin with). Heres the link if you want to check it out:\nhttp://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=586829&sku=ULT30215.\nI got an e-mial from them a while back about it.It had a $30 mail in rebate and ann instant $20 rebate to amke it $10 but i dont know when that ended.\nHope this helps!
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Restart your pc. You might be running low on memory.
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properties on my computer\nadvanced\nperformance>settings button\nadvanced tab. at the bottom it says virtual memory click change\nset to custom size that is at minimum double your ram. \nif you have more than one hard drive add the same page file to that drive too. Windows will pick the least busy.\nclick ok a bunch and reboot\n\nThe problem is that you have too many programs or one with a memory leak causing problems. The easiest is to install new ram and not wait for your machine. RAM is cheap.
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Your Virtual Memory setting may be too high. On your desktop; right click on top of your "My Computer" icon, then left click on the Properties Button. Click on the Advance Tab and select performance. Change the settings from your current settings and use only 1050mb for both the initial and maximum virtual memory size.\n\nAfterwards try to clean out your cookies, temp files, temp internet files; and repeat this again with the local settings on the c:&#92;; under your sign-in profile (c:&#92;document settings&#92; your profile&#92;local settings). Yes, last clean out some unneeded files, or applications.
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po-up saying your virtual memory is low or is it something more like "you need more memory, click here"\nif its "virtual memory is low or has been adjusted" then that is something windows does....you can increase your virtual memory by right clicking on the my computer icon, select properties and go to the advaced tab...then under performance click on the settings button, then the advanced tab then under virtual memory click on the change button......you can select the drive and how much or little virtual memory is used on each hard drive or you could go with the reccomended or set it manually.\n\nIf its the second possibility "click here to fix" that is more likely some sort of adware.
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Get more memory or a better graphics card.
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Make sure you have enough ram to hold the multitasking you are demanding. Other then that have your registry scanned for conflicts.
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Start --> control panel --> system --> advanced tab --> performance.  Change virtual memory.\n\nBut first I would do a disk clean up and defrag (start --> all programs --> accessories --> system tools --> disk cleanup and after completed, defrag.)
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have more memory installed
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right click on desktop---click on display properties---settings tab---advanced---adapter\n\nyou need to get a new video card in order to get more video ram.
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you can get a larger memory stick\nE
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photos are labor intensive for a computer and video even worse, so you just have to put up with it, be sure you delete things you dont need and then do a disk clean up and defrag often.
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You need to buy more memory - 256MB is chump change as far as RAM is concerned nowadays. You pretty much need at least 1GB.