We all know that moving the Windows page file into a separate hard drive increases it's performance. My question is, should I keep it in it's default location (c: drive), move it into my secondary hard drive containing the FSX installation, or disable it all together?The hard drives are identical (2 x 500GB Western Digital Caviar Blue), and I have 4 GB DDR3-1333 RAMThank you.

We all know that moving the Windows page file into a separate hard drive increases it's performance. My question is, should I keep it in it's default location (c: drive), move it into my secondary hard drive containing the FSX installation, or disable it all together?The hard drives are identical (2 x 500GB Western Digital Caviar Blue), and I have 4 GB DDR3-1333 RAMThank you.

Page File for FS use should always be on the same drive and same partition as the OS.

Or you maybe could disable the page file and give the RAM all the work (It´s made for.). I also did that and got instandly better frame rates an im most cases no shutters, so it´s better, at least. But pay attention that you´ve got enough RAM, 4GB might be a little bit less, if you fly with some PMDG planes in good made payware airports. Therefore you should consider, like I actually do, to upgrade ot 8GB. This is more than enough, but we don´t wanna run into an OOM. Or?

Or you maybe could disable the page file and give the RAM all the work (It´s made for.). I also did that and got instandly better frame rates an im most cases no shutters, so it´s better, at least. But pay attention that you´ve got enough RAM, 4GB might be a little bit less, if you fly with some PMDG planes in good made payware airports. Therefore you should consider, like I actually do, to upgrade ot 8GB. This is more than enough, but we don´t wanna run into an OOM. Or?

The page file should not be disabled in any Windows operating system. This is well documented add nauseism, Google,reliable sources is your friend; as is Microsoft Sysinternals volume 5. Windows will reserve VM regardless if a page file exists or not. If no page file exists VM will be reserved from physical memory.FSX is a 32-bit program. A 32-bit program can only utilize 4GB of memory. 8GB is doing nothing for you. Google is your friend, look up Windows memory management.One good reference: http://lifehacker.com/5426041/understanding-the-windows-pagefile-and-why-you-shouldnt-disable-it