Just ran AHIII Patch14 Dx11 w\ MS Performance Monitor set up to measure the following:
Page File % In Use
Page File Peak % In Use
Memory Pages Output\sec
Process aceshigh11.exe Page File Bytes
Results showed that Windows set up the game w\ 100% page file bytes (corresponds to the approx 2631MB that I had previously noted using AB).
Page File % in Use was approx 2.4% (so using math this would approx to around 63.14MB of the 2631MB that Windows actually set up)
Page File Peak % in Use was even smaller...around 1.8% (again using math this came out to around 1.14MB of the 63.14MB in potential use at any 1 instance by AHIII)
Memory Pages Output\sec was 0% (this measurement is the 1 that tells the story as this indicates that during the time I was flying around in AHIII there were no page outs occurring from system mem to virtual mem....no writes monitored from AHIII to page file....all due to the 16Gb of system mem onboard my box being far more than enough so AHIII\Windows didn't need to write out any data from system mem to disk due to mem overburden). Now I know why I'm not seeing any issues w\ page file usage on my Sammy SM961 AHCI 128Gb PCI-E SSD.........
So from this exercise it shows that Windows (if page file is set up as System Managed) will set up a page file size for a process but will dynamically grow it\reduce it in size to accomodate page outs if\as they occur once system mem has reached overburden (full). If mem isn't full Windows doesn't page out but will maintain the initial page file size (which explains why the page file didn't resize itself once it was established when the game was started and never resized itself while the game ran and Windows then flushed it once the game was exited).
This also shows that at this time I have no need to upsize system mem capacity on my box thus no need to switch to Win 10.........yet, as to upsize system mem on my box in excess of 16Gb I would have to jettison Win 7 HP.
Gonna run this again when AHIII is busy to see if all as found now holds up then.
You are aware that the page file is controlled by Windows? No application can impact how Windows manages that.
Yes I am.
PS--Also shows that any performance issues are not mem-related\page file related on my box......will be CPU\device related.........the way I want it to be.
Will be upgrading the HOTAS connection to my box soon (got a new 7-USB 3.0 port USB\PCI-E add-in card w\ 12v SATA power connector & 3 USB 2.0 3' cable extensions coming to remove my old trusty Belkin ExpressBus USB 1.1 4-port hub that I've used for the last 15 yrs to hook up my CH USB HOTAS to separate USB ports\powered individually and if all goes well may also hook up my X7 DAC-AMP to it as well so the only USB devices hooked up to mobo USB clusters will be trackball and keyboard.
