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esebm said:

I expected faster boot and performance, but, if anything, the PC seems to be slower than before. Did I srcew it up?

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Not sure why you expected "faster boot". Additional memory will not increase up your boot speed.

As for performance... Extra memory will increase performance in situations when combined working set of all active processes exceeds the size of installed RAM. In other words, if you previously encountered heavy swapping activity, the extra memory might eliminate that issue (assuming you added enough).

The OS itself is not strained much by 16GB of RAM, so you should not expect any increase in performance from the bare OS itself. The only situation when you should expect better performance is when you run applications that large active memory footprint.

P.S. Your swap file parameters have very little effect on performance.

When I had 8GB, I frequently reached 7GB usage. 16GB increased performance because with the same usage there is less swapping. Of course if I render too many videos at the same time I see 15.2GB usage. I just make sure all processes have normal priority so the computer remains responsive. Back in my Intel Pentium 4 with 4GB RAM I set all rendering processes to low priority so I could use my PC for anything else.

PS: Is there any VFW codec for encoding to AVS or HEVC with nVidia CUDA hardware acceleration? x264vfw and x265vfw are software only, no hardware acceleration. I saw Lead codecs but could not find any downloads at their site. Thanks.

Here is my current status of Virtual Memory on my Main Windows 11 AMD Ryzen 7 7700X Desktop with 32GB DDR 5 5600mhz

Not sure if still too high or what causes it to get so high in the first place.

Here is typical programs i run--no virtual machines

Windows Security
Malwarebytes Premium
MS Edge
MS Teams
Outlook Classic
EA App For Battlefield 2042, and Need For Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered
Steam for following games--American Truck Simulator, Euro Truck SImulator 2, Forza horizon 5, Grand Theft auto V Enhanced, Wreckfest, and in the future Firefighter Simulator Ignite (Pre Ordered)
Firestorm Viewer x64bit for SecondLife

Music listening i use the following
Local music Windows Media Player typically
Video Lan Player for DVD playback when i had the usb drive connected
Spotify if i wanna stream music

Virtual DJ occasionally when i dj in SecondLife at events

rest is standard drivers, and typical Windows stuff