During my recent live stream, I completely ran out of space on my C: Drive because my Windows page file ballooned to a whopping 78 Gigabytes. This isn't the first time it's happened. While I was streaming and recording on YouTube using OBS, I was also playing World of Warcraft Legion REMIX with the Brave Browser open. My system is fully updated, including the BIOS, drivers, and Windows itself. I have a 1TB M.2 NVME hard drive and 32GB of DDR4 RAM, of which only about 55% was in use at the time. This issue is really frustrating as it impacts my streaming performance. Any insights or solutions would be greatly appreciated!
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You can actually control how large your page file gets. I recommend manually setting it to 16GB for both the minimum and maximum size since you have 32GB of RAM. It should help prevent it from growing too large automatically. Here's a link on how to manage virtual memory in Windows: [link](https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/how-to-manage-virtual-memory-on-windows-11).
I tried that method, but my OBS still crashes after about an hour or two when I limit the page file size. Not sure if that's just a coincidence or related.