vchris, yes, I meant pagefile size. I'm running Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 3.
PerroLoco, thanks for the tweak link, I'll look into it some time. As they come, the shadows do look off. Either you see them pixelized or you blur everything. I think the blurring hurts my eyes more, so pixelized it has been.
I've created a commandline.txt. I put in the first 2 lines, skipped the last 2. Works, I can select any graphics settings, not that I'm interested. I'm even putting Texture Detail on Low to save memory. It showed a maximum of 700+Mb now. I might try cranking it up a little higher, even. It did seem to last longer before lagging down on this trial run.
superweapons, -norestrictions might be unnecessary indeed but it's not out of control, we can still the configuration we want. We just have to keep in mind what our rigs are capable of, and not trust in the auto-configuration when running on this command.
I appreciate the heads-up about the probable fallout, but as it was it wasn't unacceptable, so I have to go with this. The -availablevidmemory command has helped, tho I still would like to try out with a pagefile tweak. Can't hurt to try, I'd like to test it out.
Thank you, everyone, I appreciate the input.