# Virtual Memory

Another factor that may hinder the ability of a game to install to a designated drive is the size of the swap file A file stored on the computer hard disk drive that is used as a temporary location to store information that is not currently being used by the computer RAM. It is perfectly normal for the swap file or page file to grow in size, sometimes growing several hundred megs in size.. A file stored on the computer hard disk drive that is used as a temporary location to store information that is not currently being used by the computer RAM. It is perfectly normal for the swap file or page file to grow in size, sometimes growing to more than over one gigabyte several hundred megs in size. that is needed by Windows' Virtual Memory Virtual memory is hard drive space that Windows sets aside as cache. Windows will be able to offload items from main RAM so that it can still be accessed by the program again.. Virtual memory is hard drive space that Windows sets aside as cache. Windows will be able to offload items from main RAM so that it can still be accessed by the program again.. Set aside an absolute minimum of 100 250 megabytes of free space on your designated swap drive (hard drive) regardless of what partition you are installing the game to. This will help prevent virtual memory errors and Windows warning messages regarding low disk space.

If you are using up too much Virtual Memory the next step would be to Close Background Tasks.

EA Tech Tip: | You can free up hard drive space by uninstalling unused programs through Add/Remove Programs in the Windows Control Panel