RAM upgrade

[AboveBrakes (ivan)]

hello,

i was wondering if someone could help me with a qeustion. I currently have 8GB of RAM, but i have some serieus problems in some games. For example I have really bad FPS in battlefield 1. at some points durring the game i have like 60 FPS and then it drops to 4 FPS and then spikes back up to 60 FPS. And in forza horizon 4 i can't play on ultra because the map will not load if I drive at a high speed. and when i play on high i can't play with the frame rate set to unlimited because the map doesn't load. My qeustion was if i buy the exact same RAM as what i have now will it work? but most import will it fix my issue or is this more a CPU bottleneck?

 

Thank you for reading.

[Nikolacar4]

22 minutes ago, AboveBrakes (ivan) said:

hello,

i was wondering if someone could help me with a qeustion. I currently have 8GB of RAM, but i have some serieus problems in some games. For example I have really bad FPS in battlefield 1. at some points durring the game i have like 60 FPS and then it drops to 4 FPS and then spikes back up to 60 FPS. And in forza horizon 4 i can't play on ultra because the map will not load if I drive at a high speed. and when i play on high i can't play with the frame rate set to unlimited because the map doesn't load. My qeustion was if i buy the exact same RAM as what i have now will it work? but most import will it fix my issue or is this more a CPU bottleneck?

 

Thank you for reading.

We need more information... Send us your pc specs.. And check task manager for background apps,they might be killing your performance...

[AboveBrakes (ivan)]

my specs are in every message i sent, and i don't run much programs but my RAM is always red in task manager just like my CPU. 

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intel core i5 7500 | nividia gtx 1070ti | mobo: msi b250 PC mate | RAM: corsair vengence 8gb DDR4 2400mhz | SSD: samsung 850 evo 250gb | HHD: western digital 1TB 7200 rpm |CPU cooler: MSI core Frozr L | case: corsair spec 03 | 

[The Pook]

Buying the exact model is ideal but you don't have to. I'm running two different 2x4 kits and they run in dual channel fine at 4x4. 

 

Monitor your RAM and page file usage. Can do both with HWInfo. If during the spikes you're >8000MB RAM usage and your page file usage is abnormally high, then yeah, that's your issue. 

[AboveBrakes (ivan)]

okay, thank you i'll have a look at it. i do know that when i play battlefield 1 that the game want about 7.8 GB of ram on high. so can it be that the has un issue with the capacity, but would that explain that my cpu is at 100% during battlefield on  ultra?

 

[The Pook]

Well you won't see 8.1GB with 8GB, it's just going to put the excess >8GB on the page file. Your CPU is at 100% in Battlefield is because it's a quad core. My i7 6700 was nearly always pegged at 100% too, even my 9900K is 60%+. BF is fairly well multithreaded. 

[AboveBrakes (ivan)]

yeah thats correct but why is the recommended specs a core I5 6600K  that's also a 4 core and 4 threads. That doesn't make sense then haha. but sure i just won't play that game then

[The Pook]

Because it's not? i5 is the minimum requirement, not the recommended specs. Regardless, recommended/minimum spec requirements are useless if they don't specify what resolution/settings they're aiming at. 

 

https://www.battlefield.com/games/battlefield-1/tech

[AboveBrakes (ivan)]

ahh, i was wrong sorry. thanks for your advice though