What is 'Virtual Memory'?

[Physicsguy]

When Algodoo was processing a large request, it said 'Loading! Please wait...' a little yellow speech balloon popped up on the bottom right of my screen saying my Virtual Memory and something about a minimum. It said it was making my VM file bigger, what does this mean?

[Chronos]

its RAM

you have more RAM, you have more VM. simple

ok, maybe it isnt RAM EXACTLY, but it uses RAM

[electronicboy]

its basically ram on a harddisk.
ill take it you got the windows is running low on virtual ram?

[thebeech]

so theyre page files basically ? which is an area of your hard drive where the ram dumps memory its not using temporarily

[Rhett97]

You can Use part of your hard drive for RAM just go to system(in control panel) uhm.... visual,Then advanced then Virtual memory settings

[Chronos]

You can Use part of your hard drive for RAM just go to system(in control panel) uhm.... visual,Then advanced then Virtual memory settings

why would that be in visual?

[Rhett97]

i think thts what it was i just pulled this out of old storage in my head

[Chronos]

its probably in system, if anything

[electronicboy]

its control panel --> system ---> advanced ---> performance (the setting's button) ---> advanced ---> virtual memory

[Rhett97]

yeah and then you can give up like 1gb and get like 100 mb of ram i think

[electronicboy]

will vm is good but it has a few drawbacks
1.its slow
2. hd fragementation ( chances of me spelling that right. obviously none) will slow it down even more

[thebeech]

hdd fragmentation thats the word spelt right

[electronicboy]

so you correct 2 words if my *eyes* this means war! jk

[Physicsguy]

I looked in there, and it says:

"Total paging file size for all drivers: 1536MB"

That's a Gig and a half, pretty good but I don't know what to change it to to make Algodoo run faster...