Solved Where can I put the pagefile for best optimization?

I have 2 NvME 2Tb drives plus several 4Tb storage hard drives along with 32G DDR4 3200 memory. One NvME is my C:// drive and one I use for games. My current swap file is manually configured on a hard drive. Would I benefit from moving it to the NvME drives and which one, the OS drive or the games drive?

I'm curious because I have a performance monitor running and when I play a game like Elden Ring, The Last of Us, etc it tells me that I'm using up to 45% of pagefile, even though I'm only using up to 17G of total memory. Shouldn't the pagefile come out of memory first before going to the hard drive?

Running Win 11 Pro v 22H2 build 22621.1485

Last place you want it is a hard drive as it is too slow. I have 2 nvmes and I put it on the data drive - performance wise no real difference which nvme you choose - it just levels out the writing a bit (OS drive takes the main hit).

I'll try it on the game drive. Thanks.

It's best to have the page file on the Windows drive if there are any computer problems related to stability / instability (BSOD, unexpected shutdowns and restarts, etc.)