Disable / fix the pagefile
Also searched as: pagefile · virtual memory off · fixed pagefile
What it does
Turns off or hard-caps Windows' virtual memory file.
The honest verdict
Refused. Games that commit more memory than your RAM will hard-crash with it off — '32 GB is enough' isn't how commit charge works. Leave it system-managed.
How Compy treats it
It's on Compy's refuse list. Compy will never apply this tweak — and if a guide already talked you into it, reversibility is the whole point of the app.
The Compy Blackbook holds 174 graded entries like this one, judged against your hardware — and every change it does make is reversible, with the receipt to prove it.
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