Lock pages in memory is a modification that can be made using windows 2003 resource toolkit or by using group policy. After enabling this modification I have noticed my computer is a bit more snappy and watching the cache in task manager I can copy a folder of 2gb to the desktop from a seperate storage device and I noticed my cache climb pretty high. My question is lockpages in memory is an sql server tweak but I was wondering about a gaming tweak that would go hand in hand with the lockpages in memory tweak? Does anyone have any ideas? (Preferably a gaming tweak that avoids windows registry but I'm open for ideas)
But without thorough testing it would be unwise to apply permanently. Somewhat related tweak https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/performance-boost-for-most-games.389072/
Using SuperFetch over locking pages in memory might be your best bet, still useless for gaming tbh. Heck, even allocating enough ramdisk to contain a whole game doesn't really add a huge benefit over using a newer SATA SSD.
I ran into the same problem and the fix that worked for me is to reinstall. Example: If i have firefox and i enable the tweak and firefox doesnt boot try uninstalling firefox while the tweak is still enabled. you might be able to do an in place reinstall to the program also.
I think lock pages in memory worked better for Operating systems like windows xp. i enabled lockpagesinmemory on xp that was installed on a virtual box and restarting the virtual box restarted and got to the desktop almost instantly. And i figured out that the large address aware flag is mainly for 32/86 programs to make them aware of ram in the 64bit range. Superfetch has been known to cause problems for me in the past so i disable it and also prefetch but thank you for your advice
Isn't the point of a forum to help people? Ancient guru or not your not helping when you're being a dick. Instead of typing "thats not how lock pages works lmao." why don't you explain what lock pages does Instead?
https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/6918/lock-pages-in-memory-sql-server/ https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sq...n-memory-option-windows?view=sql-server-ver15 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/wi...security-policy-settings/lock-pages-in-memory https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/6654/sql-server-max-memory-setting-with-lock-pages-in-memory/
@Smirk_24 All of that is relevant for a server scale rigs and Operating Systems. When rig has hundreds of GBs of RAM forbidding the swapping of pages to page file has low risks of out of memory situation. PS And if your rig has amount of RAM sufficient for your usual load then the gain of locking pages in memory is miniscule. If your rig has not sufficient amount of RAM then double it - that will give big gain. PPS My rig has 32GB of RAM, and page file always stays at 2GB.
Everything is tuned in SMSS itself to avoid it from paging to begin with, at least with modern Windows Server and SQL Server editions.
