what is best setting for BMS?
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@Icarus said in what is best setting for BMS?:
On computers that have 8 GB of RAM, the suggested paging file size is 16 GB
My advice: RAM is so cheap and plentiful in this modern age of 64-bit computing… set pagefile to zero/none – just buy more RAM.
I can’t imagine ever wanting my OS kernel to be swapping memory to/from disk, while gaming.
The entire concept of pagefile was from an era when PCs had ~10 Mb (not Gb!) of RAM.
I’m old enough to remember that time… but it’s difficult to remember how we ever tolerated that. (HDDs were so much slower, and smaller, then, too!)
I also recommend turning off Superfetch and Readyboot … more short-sighted stuff we built in early 2000s, when typical RAM on laptops was around 256-512 Mb and the OS was outgrowing that – but nobody ever went back and re-rationalized things like that in the 20 years since. (Is it still enabled on Win11? not sure, haven’t checked.)
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For sure pagefile is desperation mode and will cause stutters. RAM upgrade will get him by until the next update which will likely push that system over the edge once and for all. Time for a new videocard as well.
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ok guys thank you very much, I am going to upgrade to 16BG of RAM, upgrade VRAM to XXX & upgrade the video card as well. Will that suffice for now and later for 4.38!
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@Alfred it will help for sure but if I could recommend you something, that would be investing in a new computer. It’s severely outdated.
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@b0bl00i it’s interesting that it can still run BMS 4.37U2 very smoothly in TE & built TEs. But unfortunately not campaigns. You are probably right though, I might as well get a new pc for gaming, in this case for BMS. That might take a while.
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@Alfred
TE’s are (often) very low on AI units. When you run the campaign, there’s a lot of units that drive processing power and memory requirements up a lot compared to localized TEs.
There’s no need to buy anything over the top but a modern multicore cpu (AMD or Intel), 16-32 GB ram (ram is quite cheap these days) and a decent GPU, perhaps 2080 or 3060) will last you for years.You can probably buy a used computer as well with OK specs for quite a low figure.
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@b0bl00i thank you for the the recommendations, some PCs with the same specs can go for cheaper price. Will that make it run for 4.38? will there be any fundamental changes in F4 graphics to match micro soft flight 2020? I think I really would like to see a google map application for free flights of the F-16.
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@Alfred minimum graphics card for 4.38 is being floated as an 8 GB card. That should give you a rough idea anyway. No computer could run MSFS 2020 graphics combined with BMS. Sorry.
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@b0bl00i @Alfred here’s @I-Hawk’s answer in another thread of what he currently expects for 4.38 system specs:
https://forum.falcon-bms.com/post/376076