Is 8Gb not enough for Gaming anymore?

Rezident

Rezident

Rezident

Soldato
Joined
29 May 2007
Posts
4,924
Location
Dublin
System in sig, I have 8Gb dual channel HyperX DDR3 @800MHz (9-9-9-28) but my system keeps seeming to run out of memory trying to launch Call of Duty Advanced Warfare.

Now it might be the game as all my other games seem fine but what's the best way to upgrade to 16Gb? Mobo and memory are about 3 years old, can you still get more of my 3 years-old memory (I can't see it on ocuk, all the memory seems to be faster) or do I have to get 16Gb new? And if so, any recommendations?

Many thanks.
 
Is it defiantly RAM running out and not page file memory? Just wondering if your getting a memory error or you can see the ram usage in task manager
 
Yeah have you run out of disk space ?? ;)

Its not memory 8gb is more than enough and in most cases 4gb is still good.
 
AW needs 6gb. Check what else is running at the time. Should be plenty though.

8gb is pretty much the amount you want to have as a minimum these days if you're serious about gaming. 6 is a minimum these days for min specs
 
are you using Samsung/rapid mode? I think that reserves some memory for ramdisk

8gb is plenty for any of today's games,somethings up if its running out
 
wazza300 said:
are you using Samsung/rapid mode? I think that reserves some memory for ramdisk
Click to expand...

I agree that this may well be the issue.

Enabling the boost setting in the Samsung software increased my idle ram usage from ~1.5gb to ~3.5gb, that wouldn't leave a lot of room for games if only 8gb is available...
 
no idea,i just went off the above

it will reserve some ram though I know that much,best to open task manager and see(after disabling rapid mode in Samsung magician)
 
There's 253 GB free on the samsung drive, I don't think it's running out of space. On a CPU/Memory monitor I've seen memory up at 7GB during games.
 
My brother had this same problem with this game, I also had the same issue now and again with other games - it was the pagefile! Samsung Magician I think decreased the size to only 1GB. Increase it to something bigger like 4GB and see how the game goes! :)
 
K1LLSW1TCH said:
You sure it isn't video memory? There's a couple of settings in the options menu that warns about this problem.
Click to expand...

Could be, I checked that and there was one setting whereby the VRAM was set to 0.7 instead of 1 (that's the way is installed by default, bizarrely). So it was only recognising 70% of VRAM in game. Fixed that and 4 gigs of VRAM are now seen in-game but the game still cannot get past about ten seconds of the intro without crashing. It crashes 100% of the time, I've never gotten past about ten seconds. Often it just black-screens before it even starts the intro!

Feels like severe memory leaks somewhere.
 
I used to get this sort of error when running Win 7.

If your using Win 7. Ignore it. I think it's something about vram usage and windows thinking that it's running low on system memory.

Never seen the same in Win 8.1.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom