Pagefile size allocation during gaming?

[Pepi93]

I've always put my pagefile size on my SSD to 1024 min and 1024 max as suggested by some SSD guides.

I've recently started playing Witcher 3 and those of you who play it can perhaps relate to the many issues this game presents in terms of stuttering, fps drops etc.

It's a very demanding game and I get that...probably should have a i7 but I don't.

After many tweaks etc I decided to monitor pagefile allocation on my OSD as the one thing I didn't tweak.

I switched the virtual memory location to my HDD and set it to system managed.

I was shocked while playing the game to see upwards to 7gb of pagefile allocation?

I have 16gb of RAM and the game is using roughly 4-5gb...what's with the 7gb of virtual memory usage?

Why is my RAM not being used instead?

 

[wingman99]

The game decides how the memory is allocated however don't worry the Graphics don't use the SSD while in flight unless it is a old game.