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Advantage of virtual memory

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Virtual Memory can extend the memory available to programs when the chip-type memory is limited. Windows prefers to have Virtual memory, a lot of games are written to use more virtual memory in an attempt to save you RAM.

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You can run more applications at once.
You can run larger applications with less real RAM.
Applications may launch faster because of File Mapping.
You don't have to buy more memory(RAM).

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