I installed and began playing a new game on a machine with dual core Turion proc and 2GB ram. The game began giving me "paged pool memory low" messages, and performed very poorly. After digging around on the internet, I learned that disabling "terminal services," in addition to changing a regedit file could fix this issue.I followed the instructions and changed "paged pool limit" in regedit from 0x10000000 to 0xffffffff.after I restarted, process explorer showed that my paged pool limit had jumped from 160MB to 358MB. The game now runs perfectly, and the laptop seems to perform faster in general.My question is...why did that work? What does "ffffffff" mean in a .reg file?1 person got this answerI do too

It’s a hexadecimal value representing 4,294,967,295 in decimal, i.e. 4GB.

So how then does telling the registry that I want a 4GB page pool limit result in a 358MB page pool limit, which is what Process Explorer is telling me I have? I'm not making the connection between the command in the registry and what actually happened.

The 4GB (FFFFFFFF) is the maximum that can be stored in that field type in the registry. It is easier for someone to tell you to allocate the infinite maximum rather work out the physical maximum. I suspect it would work equally as well if you allocated a hex value of 15752A00, which is 360,000,000 in decimal.