How to Trick Windows 10 into Thinking It Has More Ram Then It Does?
I Have a Computer That Has 1 Gb of Ram (I Know - Bad Buying Choice! !). I Would Like to Install the Program Bluestacks, but It Requires 2 Gb of Ram. Is There a...
I have a computer that has 1 GB of RAM (I know - bad buying choice!!). I would like to install the program BlueStacks, but it requires 2 GB of RAM.
Is there a way that I can tell Windows 10 that it has 2 GB of RAM (even though it doesn't) so I can easilly install programs?
2 Answers
In this case, what you really want to do is to trick a specific application, not Windows itself.
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Potential problems
Firstly, obviously, such a configuration is not supported by your program. So it's really a at your-own-risk thing.
You might be thinking that once you have the program running, you can rely on the page file to handle any RAM allocations above your installed physical memory. Unfortunately, this does not always work, since it's possible for the program in question to request physical memory specifically. I am aware of at least one virtual machine/hypervisor that does so, and I would not be surprised if Bluestacks is in the same boat.
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