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Hi guys, Iam wondering, can we play good game using 4 gigs RAM?

is it still playable? if theres a problem, what would it be?

and what the solution? since add some more RAM is the last resort.

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You can play many "good" gameS with 4 gigs of ram. And 99% of the time the only solution is to add RAM in order to improve the experience you are getting....

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Yes you can run them but they will run very bad. Watch this video 

 

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You can run games on 4Gb memory, but a lot will run like crap. Minecraft struggled on 4Gb for me. For gaming, I generally recommend no less than 8Gb

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15 minutes ago, ekadarmawan said:

Hi guys, Iam wondering, can we play good game using 4 gigs RAM?

is it still playable? if theres a problem, what would it be?

and what the solution? since add some more RAM is the last resort.

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try to have as much a clean windows as possible. The more junk the worst it will get.

Better to lower the settings not so much the resolution, as i've learned recently.

And what GPU are you planning on using? if that was low VRAM and you have only 4GB things escalate quickly to a bad experience.

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15 minutes ago, ekadarmawan said:

Hi guys, Iam wondering, can we play good game using 4 gigs RAM?

is it still playable? if theres a problem, what would it be?

and what the solution? since add some more RAM is the last resort.

best regard

You can but they'll run very slow like everyone else has mentioned... you should consider at least double that. If buying new RAM is too expensive then consider getting preowned/second hand RAM as that's usually alot cheaper.

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17 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

You can run games on 4Gb memory, but a lot will run like crap. Minecraft struggled on 4Gb for me. For gaming, I generally recommend no less than 8Gb

Its 16+ for me.

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Just now, Ashiella said:

Its 16+ for me.

Yeah, 16 is the sweet spot I hear. I personally am yet to encounter a scenario in which I will need more than 8Gb

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1 minute ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Yeah, 16 is the sweet spot I hear. I personally am yet to encounter a scenario in which I will need more than 8Gb

You dont have 100+ tabs on your browser though. You dont run a game along with that and other shit among it lol. Its about 10-12gb right there, and if i run rust its about 14gb

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You can do two things before buying RAMs:

A. Increase page memory, this way if ram fully used ram memory will be executed in you hard drive.

B. Take Flash drive 4GB at least and you can use flash as a ram windows has built in feature ReadyBoost also not all flashs support such feature.

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4 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Yeah, 16 is the sweet spot I hear. I personally am yet to encounter a scenario in which I will need more than 8Gb

Install MSI afterburner and Riva, I also thought 8Gb was more than enough as even GTA V on ultra it only used like 7.4GB but then i went to 16GB and the FPS got way smother and saw i was using 9+GB 

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57 minutes ago, komar said:

You can play many "good" gameS with 4 gigs of ram. And 99% of the time the only solution is to add RAM in order to improve the experience you are getting....

thank you for the answer, yes definetely I will add some more RAM later, but now I consider to by a graphic card first and leave the RAM as it is

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56 minutes ago, mbox said:

Yes you can run them but they will run very bad. Watch this video 

 

thank you for the video, thats really a lot of information xD

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56 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

You can run games on 4Gb memory, but a lot will run like crap. Minecraft struggled on 4Gb for me. For gaming, I generally recommend no less than 8Gb

what is it the problem? is it like lagging issue or stuttering?

what resolution do you use anyway?

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46 minutes ago, asus killer said:

try to have as much a clean windows as possible. The more junk the worst it will get.

Better to lower the settings not so much the resolution, as i've learned recently.

And what GPU are you planning on using? if that was low VRAM and you have only 4GB things escalate quickly to a bad experience.

actually Iam planning on getting nvidia 1050 ti, and cant afford to get the additional RAM at the same time, so I will leave the RAM as it is for now. any way what resolution that you ve already try?

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6 minutes ago, ekadarmawan said:

what is it the problem? is it like lagging issue or stuttering?

what resolution do you use anyway?

It was mostly lagging, a little bit of it was CPU(Core i3-330M) was bogged down with all sorts of processes and things. 1366x768 I believe. I gave that laptop away and now run a Toshiba Satellite P755 as my daily driver which is a lot better.

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33 minutes ago, Not_Sean said:

Install MSI afterburner and Riva, I also thought 8Gb was more than enough as even GTA V on ultra it only used like 7.4GB but then i went to 16GB and the FPS got way smother and saw i was using 9+GB 

I don't have any of those actually haha. No reason for Afterburner yet, and I don't play GTA either.

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35 minutes ago, speed258 said:

You can do two things before buying RAMs:

A. Increase page memory, this way if ram fully used ram memory will be executed in you hard drive.

B. Take Flash drive 4GB at least and you can use flash as a ram windows has built in feature ReadyBoost also not all flashs support such feature.

Good luck

thank you very much for the reply, right now I have no clue how to that those things, but I will do some research relating to that tips

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Just now, ekadarmawan said:

thank you very much for the reply, right now I have no clue how to that those things, but I will do some research relating to that tips

Glad to help.

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13 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

You can play Half Life 2 which is the father of shooters.

great I will try it later xD

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10 hours ago, ekadarmawan said:

actually Iam planning on getting nvidia 1050 ti, and cant afford to get the additional RAM at the same time, so I will leave the RAM as it is for now. any way what resolution that you ve already try?

try to get the 4gb 1050ti or it will be really hard to play anything.

I have 8gb but i can tell you every game i play uses more than 4Gb RAM on 1080p medium/high settings. I haven't played one this year that didn't needed more than 4Gb. And i keep my windows as clean as i can.

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Doesn't Windows use like 4GB all by itself? I would use 8Gb minimum,

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4 hours ago, asus killer said:

try to get the 4gb 1050ti or it will be really hard to play anything.

I have 8gb but i can tell you every game i play uses more than 4Gb RAM on 1080p medium/high settings. I haven't played one this year that didn't needed more than 4Gb. And i keep my windows as clean as i can.

thank you for the answer, it really helps.

actually I plan to get 1050 ti as well, but maybe next.

right now I need to upgrade my cpu first.

cant afford both of those on the same time anyway

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