Pagefile error on Windows with ssd

[AdloraHealer]

I have inherited a gaming laptop. It's seriously badass. 8 gb of ram, a terabyte of hard disk. Systemrequirementslab.com said I could easily run skyrim on the highest settings. And when I installed my favourite mods and fired her up it ran even faster than it did on the gaming desktop I bought in 2011 specifically for skyrim. For about 6 minutes. Then, suddenly, I got an error message saying, "close programs to prevent information loss". I had time to save and quit before it closed the program for me. I did a little research and this is apparently a Pagefile error. It must be that and not a memory Leak because I have the same mods and game version on the desktop, which runs fine.

 

Herein lies the problem: my laptop has a 50 gig SSD with nothing but windows 7 on it. Therefore the Pagefile is extremely small, only a gig. Skyrim is kept on the terabyte D: drive. I really don't want to make the Pagefile on the C: drive very much bigger for fear it'll ruin the SSD or bloat it. I've read that disabling the Pagefile could be dangerous so I'm reluctant to do that. And I'm not sure putting a 10 gig Pagefile on the D: drive would be effective.

 

What should I do?

[cloudmage]

Put a 12GB page file on D.

You have a 8 gigs of physical RAM but only 1GB page file, that is where your problem lies. When you play, the game would take pretty much every resource it can (though an unmodded skyrim shouldn't use more than 4 gigs, If you're using the latest skse then the game can and will use more than 4GB). While you're gaming, your PC would put some of the excess background programs and processes to the page file. And when the page file has no more room for more background processes, BAM!! the game crashes or gives you an error.

SSDs are not very write-friendly so putting a page file on it can shorten its life.