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That's it gamers -- We've hit 8GB of RAM usage in games!

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Hey guys!

i've been monitoring my RAM usage in games for a while and so far CoD AW was using 6GB+ , dragon age inquisition use 7GB+ on my machine...and now DYING LIGHT is pushing this further with peaks at 7800mb used and i assume it would go higher than that if i would have more RAM available..it's basicaly capped with minimal stuff running (MSI afterburner, nvidia experience, that's it) under windows 8.1

 

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Looks like we should slowly start recommending 16GB of RAM for gaming...at least in the higher end builds for now...i defenetly have another RAM set on order ATM myself.

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I have 24GB, Before with 8GB I would stutter in BF4.

 

I could try running some benchmarks... If you guys want. I'd like to find out more about this.

 

What program you using to monitor usage?

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we have been suggesting 16 when you can, but if it does not go over 8gb then you dont need more, and rarely is it just the game that uses that much

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Nice. Good to see we're getting to that point now.

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What program you using to monitor usage?

MSI afterburner...it has built in Rivatuner statistics...you have to learn how to use it though...takes  5 minutes if your quick :P

ALSO i found out that core 1 is pinned at 98% consistently and this is not good...slower CPU's wil have a hard time running this game properly (looking at you AMD FX :P)

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I have 24GB, 

 

I could try running some benchmarks... If you guys want. I'd like to find out more about this.

I have 32GB. I could do some benchmarks as well. Just to see if a higher roof lets it use more RAM.

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I'm not terribly shocked, really. I've been waiting for a reasonable excuse to buy another 8GB kit to fill my board, and this is kind of putting me there. I may wait a few months before then, though.

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*slowly shying away at the back for his 2x2gb gskill 1600mhz kit*  :ph34r:

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I have 24GB,

 

I could try running some benchmarks...

 

I have 32GB. I could do some benchmarks as well. Just to see if a higher roof lets it use more RAM.

guys if you own this game i'd love it if you could run it and see how much ram it actualy use on your machine, please...

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Enjoying my 16 gigs

 

Want 32....cuz reasons. Been hitting about 8 in dying light, but also had 1 window of chrome open on another monitor so :\

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I stutter in BF4/FC4 unless I have nothing else open, it sucks I want 16GB so bad lol

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I have 24GB, Before with 8GB I would stutter in BF4.

 

I could try running some benchmarks... If you guys want. I'd like to find out more about this.

 

What program you using to monitor usage?

What usage does BF4 use now with 24GB?

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Enjoying my 16 gigs

 

Want 32....cuz reasons. Been hitting about 8 in dying light, but also had 1 window of chrome open on another monitor so :\

 

I stutter in BF4/FC4 unless I have nothing else open, it sucks I want 16GB so bad lol

Got lucky today my matching ram kit was 30$ off on newegg.ca with free shipping :P ended up costing me 99$ flat! ( i know if you're a US citizen you think it's a lot...but it's not hehe)

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Nice.

 

right now I've got mismatched ram, 2x4 of adata 1600 (gold colored) and 2x4 of kingston hyper X fury 1866 (red, underclocked to 1600)

 

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Well at least I don't have to worry about hitting 8 GB lol

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guys if you own this game i'd love it if you could run it and see how much ram it actualy use on your machine, please...

Um, give me some time to "buy" the game. I'll have benchmarks shortly (within 2-3 days, I'm a bit busy with work). 

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Hey guys!

i've been monitoring my RAM usage in games for a while and so far CoD AW was using 6GB+ , dragon age inquisition use 7GB+ on my machine...and now DYING LIGHT is pushing this further with peaks at 7800mb used and i assume it would go higher than that if i would have more RAM available..it's basicaly capped with minimal stuff running (MSI afterburner, nvidia experience, that's it) under windows 8.1

 

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Looks like we should slowly start recommending 16GB of RAM for gaming...at least in the higher end builds for now...i defenetly have another RAM set on order ATM myself.

 

The parallelization looks like shit in that game. One virtual core at 97% and everything else 16% or less. SMH. How the hell can that even run on weakass Jaguar cores in the consoles?

Why the i5 over the FX-8350?

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Got lucky today my matching ram kit was 30$ off on newegg.ca with free shipping :P ended up costing me 99$ flat! ( i know if you're a US citizen you think it's a lot...but it's not hehe)

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Can you give me that link? I need to download another 8GB of RAM myself.

Why the i5 over the FX-8350?

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The parallelization looks like shit in that game. One virtual core at 97% and everything else 16% or less. SMH. How the hell can that even run on weakass Jaguar cores in the consoles?

Apparently, there is a fix for it, but it's annoying that we have to do that at all.

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Hey guys!

i've been monitoring my RAM usage in games for a while and so far CoD AW was using 6GB+ , dragon age inquisition use 7GB+ on my machine...and now DYING LIGHT is pushing this further with peaks at 7800mb used and i assume it would go higher than that if i would have more RAM available..it's basicaly capped with minimal stuff running (MSI afterburner, nvidia experience, that's it) under windows 8.1

 

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Looks like we should slowly start recommending 16GB of RAM for gaming...at least in the higher end builds for now...i defenetly have another RAM set on order ATM myself.

 

Is it a legit usage scenario? Or are we talking memory leaks? If its due to leakage, then i know several old MMO's that could easily use 8gb of memory. I'm looking at you, Perfect World Entertainment. Angelica Engine issues aside, the price of memory is starting to slowly settle back down again. I remember in 2010 when 8gb of DDR3 1600mhz would cost $45-$50, then it skyrocketed to $70-$80. Now it is starting to settle back to $55-$60. If this pattern continues, and memory drops back down in the $40-$50 price range, then 16gb kits will be more commonly seen in builds. 

 

If the game is using the memory properly, then i am excited for the future. Maybe we can start justifying the obscene amount of memory we buy.

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I recently upgraded to 16GB of Ram because of crazy Ram usage. while playing Dragon Age Inquisition I know See 11+GB of Ram being used, and that's not the only game that breaks the 8GB mark. 

 

even up to a year ago I always swore up and down that 8Gb was more than enough for gaming, but It's starting to get close these days. GTA5 will easily break 8GB I am betting.

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MSI afterburner...it has built in Rivatuner statistics...you have to learn how to use it though...takes  5 minutes if your quick  :P

ALSO i found out that core 1 is pinned at 98% consistently and this is not good...slower CPU's wil have a hard time running this game properly (looking at you AMD FX  :P)

 

This game has some CPU bottlenecking on everything right now.  It seems to vary between ~30 FPS and ~50 FPS for me with everything cranked and view distance as low as it can go. (at 4K, as well.)  Playable, but not the smoothest experience.  

 

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Apparently, there is a fix for it, but it's annoying that we have to do that at all.

Placebo fix, as far as I can tell.  The framerate in this game varies so wildly moment to moment even in the same scene because of how the lighting engine works. 

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I stutter in BF4/FC4 unless I have nothing else open, it sucks I want 16GB so bad lol

lol i can play bf4 with 3gb of ram (1gb allocated for igpu), it doesn't stutter, but frames are low (~45 avg.) since im using my igpu( waiting fot my 970).

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