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I got watchdogs 2 on release but I haven't really been able to play it much with school and then getting a job after graduating, but I tried to play it a few days ago and it would freeze really hard and I got a notification that I needed to add more ram. I thought 8gb was more than enough for games because I've never had this problem before. I'll buy more if needed, but if it's something else then I'd rather fix it. 

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Well I closed all the applications on my computer and ran the task manager where I could monitor it and it didn't seen to change anything. Just showed it maxed out. I have a new graphics card and monitor on the way so I'll just order some more ram and see if that solves the problem. Thank you guys. 

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5 minutes ago, Tedster said:

Nothing is ever enough. I often struggle with my 32GB of RAM!

What are you doing with your PC so 32GB isn't enough? VMs?

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1 hour ago, Tedster said:

Nothing is ever enough. I often struggle with my 32GB of RAM!
 

Just keep usage by other things down and you'll probably be fine.

Are you opening too many tabs? I even being commanded by my phone to clear ram that has 4 background applications running and 8 tabs open in max of 20 (I don't want to go over that)

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21 minutes ago, Ordinarily_Greater said:

Are you opening too many tabs? I even being commanded by my phone to clear ram that has 4 background applications running and 8 tabs open in max of 20 (I don't want to go over that)

It's:

- Heavy chrometab addiction

- Refusal to close down things if I'm going to be using them in the next couple days

- Having minecraft modpacks sometimes eat 6GB or 8GB, and wanting to leave them open in the background while running another ram-heavy game

- Running virtual machines every now and then

- Occasionally faffing around with ramdisks

- Occasional memory leaks in things I run

 

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1 hour ago, GrayTech said:

What are you doing with your PC so 32GB isn't enough? VMs?

I agree.  I play games on my main PC and don't max above 12GB in some of the harshest settings.  My Plex server doesn't hit anywhere above 16GB when transcoding for even a dozen streams.  And the only time I come close to that amount is on my work machine when I'm doing my coding, using Adobe AE, and similar applications

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