@Allisas I also said that Windows memory management is very complicated. It would take a college level semester to try to explain it and everything wouldn't be covered. The algorithms used were very complex in the beginning and I can only imagine how extremely complex they are now. I doubt that even the Microsoft engineers completely understand their memory management. When you change the size of the page file you have to reboot the computer to make the change take affect. When you download a file, the file is created in a temp folder until the download is complete. When the download completes, the file is then copied to the target location. The temp file may or may not get deleted (probably not) - it may be saved in case there is a need to recover the file. Depending on the application parts of the code may be paged to the virtual memory. This depends on the program code and how the cpu executes jump instructions. To completely explain this you would have to know the limitations of cpu instructions. This is further complicated by compilers rather then assemblers. Again this could be explained in a college level semester about microcomputers.
- to gen up a drive means to start fresh and install the operating system and the application on a new 1 terabyte conventional drive and see if the game runs. If it runs that means your rest of your system is ok and the problem is probably the ssd (or size of it).
- 29T was an oops - I meant to say I saw 1Tb drivers for $29.95 usd. You can get brand new WD blue $53.99 usd from Amazon. They must be popular because they go on back order a lot.
- the amount of free space you need depends on how you use the system drive. Many of the functions can not be relocated such as file downloads. This will happen on the system drive. The sims games with expansion packs and creating temp files, save games, etc will continue to eat into the free space so while you may fix the issue now by freeing up free space, the issue will probable return after some time of installing packs, saving games, downloading files and the many other things that go on in the background. A student/business computer usually doesn't need a lot of resources to do homework or work from a spread sheet.
-As a gamer you need a basic understanding of the operating system in use.
As a word of caution, I wouldn't mess with Windows default settings too much unless you really understand the functions of the Windows operating system. I would suggest experimenting on a new drive. After your done you can always put the old drive back in and your up and running. If you experiment on your only drive if the system goes down your only recourse is to re install your operating system
