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Planetside 2 needs to calm down on the Memory usage.

DarkEnergy

I don't get why Planetside 2 is using so much memory. I get 60+ frames on maxed out settings except for shadows and lighting which I lowered. But after under 10 minutes of playing, the memory eventually maxes out and then I get major frame drops often as the paging file starts getting used. I only have this problem with this game.
This is a screenshot of memory usage after I close the game. As you can see from the line, it goes from 7.8gb ish down to 1.90s. That's pretty much 6gb of RAM for Planetside 2!

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Not to mention it is one of the most processor intense games i have ever seen

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For a moment I thought it was only 1.96 gb. 

 

I believe however that if 1000 players are currently on a server that it's normal that it takes a lot of ram.

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Frankly planetside 2 is so insanely awesome, even just from a conceptual standpoint, that it's worth using that many resources.

 

Seriously.  This game makes bf4 look like childs play.  Every time one of my friends asks me what kind of games PC gaming has to offer, I just let them watch planetside 2, and then remind them that its free.

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Planetside 2 is what finally caused me to get up off my ass and transition from XP 32 bit to Win8 64bit and get 12gb of RAM. Yeah, I was a dinosaur in that respect.

 

What surprises me is how PS2 can get away with this considering the game is only a 32-bit application. The most it should be able to use is 4gb.

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Planetside 2 is what finally caused me to get up off my ass and transition from XP 32 bit to Win8 64bit and get 12gb of RAM. Yeah, I was a dinosaur in that respect.

 

What surprises me is how PS2 can get away with this considering the game is only a 32-bit application. The most it should be able to use is 4gb.

 

I think they either did some PAE-like trickery within the program, or, like in my case there's a hidden 64 bit client you can use, but it's buggy (set render quality to 96% exactly to get rid of the missing textures/polygons.

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Not to mention it is one of the most processor intense games i have ever seen

Good thing you said one of the most. Because Arma is properly the worst.

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Good thing you said one of the most. Because Arma is properly the worst.

yea no kidding. tri playing with a duo core -_-

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