nobody tell that a pagefile reach nearly the speed of physical memory.
The pagegile ( named: Windows Virtual Memory ) is used in windows together with the physical memory and thus users get a “total amount of memory”.
The more useless discussion about spelling of word “memory” started as I agreed to this post and mention that users need a overall memory ( meant “total amount of memory” ) of at least 32GIG. The resulting recommendation to the question “How much RAM/VRAM do you really need” is then, for me, at least 32GIG RAM… but the game can run of course with 16GIG RAM + 16GIG pagefile, with some disadvantages.
I wrote often in the forum, that these kind of “memory-managment” needs to be optimized, because it is a SSD killer , huge pagefile slow-down just all, etc. and therefore I can never recommend less than 32GIG physical RAM for MSFS.