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Old 12-31-2012, 03:53 AM
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What is "it" the laptop, Windows or Pro Tools?

What is "Virtual RAM"?

just stick a matched pair of the largest SODIMMs you can in this laptop (whatever the laptop hardware can take) and be done. DRAM is cheap.

Pro Tools is limited to around 4GB itself, that will increase in the next major release. There is no timeline cache feature in standard Pro Tools (what you *might* be referring to). that is only in Pro tools HD and with the CPTK option.

Go google pro tools systems requirements. You need a dedicated audio-spec drive for audio/session files. that needs to be 7200 rpm or faster or an SSD drive.

Before asking any more questions here read the " Help us help you--read this before posting" link on this web page and include a Sandra report for you laptop. A USB flash stick is unlikely to be suitable for audio/session drive. Yes they can work but most if them are just not designed to work as well as a real SSD drive.

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Virtual ram is one of those Windoze gimmicks that tricks your machine into thinking it has more physical ram then it really has. All it really is is carving out a chunk of space on a hard drive for what can't be accommodated in physical ram chips.
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Old 12-31-2012, 05:22 AM
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Virtual ram is one of those Windoze gimmicks that tricks your machine into thinking it has more physical ram then it really has. All it really is is carving out a chunk of space on a hard drive for what can't be accommodated in physical ram chips.
Ah that would be "virtual memory". And it is not just a Windows trick, it's been around for decades before Windows even existed. And in modern implementations its more than just a swap space, or paging out and in of data pages, it includes paging-in of executable text pages from the executables and dynamic libraries sitting out on the file systems. All rather pretty.

And if that is what the earlier post meant, while at the core (pun intended) of how all programs run on modern operating systems virtual memory has nothing really to do how a user sizes a system for Pro Tools. You need the recommended physical DRAM in the computer program to allow Pro Tools to pretty much run from physical memory.

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google it virtual ram
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Old 01-02-2013, 03:35 PM
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it is working fine i did have the 4 gigs needed to run properly but istill want to upgrade the ram to 8 just for the extra when i get into bigger mixing sessions thanx alot
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Old 01-02-2013, 04:19 PM
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it is working fine i did have the 4 gigs needed to run properly but istill want to upgrade the ram to 8 just for the extra when i get into bigger mixing sessions thanx alot
The 8GB may not help you directly run 'a bigger mixing session'. Pro Tools currently is limited to a 32 bit address space. If heavier sessions fall over because of lack of memory they will likely continue to fall over with 8GB of memory. If VI related memory usage is the problem (as is commonly is) then you can look at using a memory server like Vienna Ensemble Pro to host the VIs.

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Old 01-02-2013, 04:20 PM
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google it virtual ram
Again, the proper term for what you mean is "virtual memory".

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