Just built a new PC for FSX. It's an i7-3770k OC to 4.5ghz with 16GB Ram. I have Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit installed on the SSD which is the main C: Drive. and a 2TB HDD for my storage drive where I install all my games onto.

 

I followed a tutorial online for SSD optimization and I believe I have no pagefile set. For my kind of setup would it be better to ahve some sort of page file defined and if so what size? I am noticing i have random OOM errors while playing FSX at times and I think its because I have no page file set.

 

Please help.

There are mixed thoughts about this all over the web. I never had issues with or without it but right now and on my last install (it's been like 1.5 years since i formatted) i just let windows manage it. It's been the same size ever since i installed windows and what's the better place to have it than on a fast SSD?

 

Well I don't have a pagefile at all. Should I set one on the SSD? And is there a rule to follow when determining a size?

If you're having OOM issues i don't think that's related to the pagefile. You have way more RAM than required for FSX, the OOM comes from FSX's memory management which is much lower than the RAM you have available.

 

So, if you have no issues without the pagefile other than that, i don't really see the need to start using it.

As a gamer over the years, I've found some programs require a page file but many do not. I only have 2 gigs of memory in my laptop so it definitely needs a page file most of the time. You can just try without and if things go goofy, just re-enable it.

Systems with big amount of memory (big means more that 4 GB for me today) do not need the pagefile. I use it only for one purpose - if my PC would crash, I have more logs too look for a reason of the crash.

 

I disable pagefile usually, but keep it in case of issues (BSOD may be one of them), but only the smallest size, which I believe is 200 MB for W7