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

[nicolas2465]

So glad I went with 16gbs...  I noticed this yesterday too, I was looking at the dying light system requirements and it said 8gb ram under recommended, I was like woahhh, we've come a long way.

[sgloux3470]

I said the game USES 2-3gb. However it will check how much ram there is and if you don't have a certain fixed number the game will refuse to launch. If you have that number or more, the game will fill it with empty files to make it look like it's using more,

The tinfoil is compressing the bloodflow to your brain.

They still load it with useful files, and you will experience more stutter with less RAM.

[D2ultima]

ok you defenetly smoke to much crack man...you bursted.

If you think game developpers would lock potential users out of a game for no good reasons you defenetly high brah...they work their ass off to get the requirements as low as possible so that as many people can play the game and will end up buying it and that's how they make money that's why they make these games.

 

Your conspiracy therory doesn't make any sense.

No he's actually right. CoD: Ghosts SPECIFICALLY requires 6GB installed RAM or more to run, but the game only has code in it for 2GB. The further 4GB of RAM it "requires" is coded for "null". They patched the game to launch SP on 4GB later, but the game itself only actually needs 2GB to work. It's an artificial limit coded in by the devs so users would think the game is much more advanced than it is. But only CoD: Ghosts has that issue. 

[Jedicake]

lol @ whoever buys more ram for these terrible PC ports.

Yea that's what I was thinking.

 

I'm pretty sure optimized games (the vast majority of them) smartly utilize ram usage and 8gb is still plenty for a long while.

 

I was actually guilty of falling into this trap when I was playing Watch Dogs with 8gb ram. It kept giving me a pop up message saying I was low on ram. a few months later I decided to go to 16gb, partly cause of that and just cause I said why not.

 

Hey guess what, turns out Watch Dogs had garbage memory leak

[chutia]

Developers rushing pc ports and compensating with higher system requirements.........

[D3MON]

ermm

that took a while to do, maybe I need to do an update (would like to do it alter but knowing me ill be back in 5 minutes).

[D2ultima]

ermm

 

that took a while to do, maybe I need to do an update (would like to do it alter but knowing me ill be back in 5 minutes).

And on the contrary, I'm using 5.6GB because I have like 30 tabs open in chrome, steam, Teamspeak 3, WMP, Tweetdeck, Logitech software, Corsair software, Throttlestop, etc running. I haven't even touched a game yet. But that's exactly why I went for 16GB anyway, so =D.

[Albatross]

Well I know that 8GB causes most of my games to stutter, and that having all the applications I need/want up at once needs way more than 8GB, so I have to jump to 16GB real fast. Plus I have to be ready for Star Citizen!

 

Battlefield 3+4 (especially 4) eats my RAM real quick. America's Army does too after a while of gaming but not so much as some other titles. It gets really annoying because I have to alt-tab and turn off applications I'd rather stay open while I game...

[Dabombinable]

I'll be fine for a long time, I upgraded my computer to 16GB while RAM was cheap in my area.

[harrynowl]

I'm currently using 8 but would look to upgrade to 16 at some point, however right now the only "games" I'm playing are my CPU ShowDown ones.

[ComradeHX]

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?

That's why PS4 is worse than PC minimum settings in terms of draw distance for certain objects

[swifty7]

I'll be fine for a long time, I upgraded my computer to 16GB while RAM was cheap in my area.

yep!!  me too!  I bought my 16GB 1600mhz Corsair Vengance when it was for $99 (4+ years ago).   Also, Dying light runs as smooth as butter maxed out @ 1080p with my good'ol evga 670SC 4gb and 2500k @ 4.4

[Viking Kong]

I dont want to spend more money on ram. Plus i already have two dimms in my dual channel board

[DaRk0]

Dual Xeons with 32GB of RAM anyone?

[Jack.EXE]

*laughs hysterically*

[deathjester]

So let's see. Console SDK is limited to 4.5 total with the rest reserved to OS. We now need 3 gig GPU's and 16 gigs of ram for a console port? I don't think so. 

 

Call me when they take off all the OS crap AKA Xbox Live, PS4 network stuff, steaming capability and give the SDK access to all 8 gigs of ram. Then I will believe it. Still won't be using 8 gigs of ram for the game.

 

Oh we might need more than 8 gigs of ram in the future, but it sure is as hell isn't going to be for a "next gen" console port and if we do? That port is a POS, which all Nvidia Game Works ports are, Dying Light no exception. 

 

3 gig ram video cards? Yeah you NEED that going forward. PS4 uses like 2.5. Maybe Nvidia can make a 3 gig card so you can be exactly at 2.5 for 1080p.

[D2ultima]

So let's see. Console SDK is limited to 4.5 total with the rest reserved to OS. We now need 3 gig GPU's and 16 gigs of ram for a console port? I don't think so. 

As far as I know, it's 5.5GB of RAM on one console and 6GB of RAM on the other, with an extra 1GB being available to the devs if they really need it, though I don't know the downsides of using that RAM.

[flibberdipper]

A lot of people thought I was stupid for getting a single 8GB stick for multiple reasons (looks, they thought it was a lot faster, crap like that). But I really want to fill my board to the gills with RAM. My first upgrade will probably be another stick of RAM. I always run out doing stuff (like 7GB of RAM and almost all of the 8GB of swap I have set aside).

[i_build_nanosuits]

That port is a POS, which all Nvidia Game Works ports are, Dying Light no exception.

sry, but it's an AWESOME game and the port is very good...very good performance, amazing graphics...i don't understand why you bash on this game.

also, the fact that a pc port can use more ram on pc than it does on console is sign of a good port, it means the devs allowed the game to cache more stuff in ram, to improve performance.

Finally, PC and consoles specs should never be compared, they shouldnt even be brought up because pc and consoles are two completely different things...the games are optimised for those weaker consoles to use less memory etc...where as the pc got to bruteforce his way through inneficient unoptimised coding therefore you need much higher specs on pc to match the consoles in gaming quality.

[Matthew12106]

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

 

 

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.

I don't know maybe it's because of all the 970 4gb news lately but when I was reading this I thought you were talking about VRAM. Needless to say I was very confused as to what resolution you were running at.

[i_build_nanosuits]

I don't know maybe it's because of all the 970 4gb news lately but when I was reading this I thought you were talking about VRAM. Needless to say I was very confused as to what resolution you were running at.

VRAM usage in this game is around 2900mb maxed settings at 1080p...no concerns there its normal for a recent modern game like that to use that amount of video memory

[Nup]

God dammit, i can't afford all of these upgrades! I'll stick to eight for a while longer. 

[Mo5]

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

You know you're in trouble when there are GPUs with more VRAM than you have system memory

[i_build_nanosuits]

God dammit, i can't afford all of these upgrades! I'll stick to eight for a while longer.

sure 8gb still plays anything just fine i went ahead and ordered another kit because i'm a freak and have the funds to do it...but the main goal for this thread was to advise the guys that 16gb for gaming now add some futureproofness so for the builders seeking advise that could afford 16gb without sacrifising on gpu or cpu it could be a good thing

[Nup]

sure 8gb still plays anything just fine i went ahead and ordered another kit because i'm a freak and have the funds to do it...but the main goal for this thread was to advise the guys that 16gb for gaming now add some futureproofness so for the builders seeking advise that could afford 16gb without sacrifising on gpu or cpu it could be a good thing

 

Indeed! if you can then why not! Good on you, knowledge is power after all. 

 

i just blew the rest of my money on a go, so ram will have to wait .