Are we ever likely to need more than 4gb for gaming?

I have 8gb and to be honest its a bit of a waste as I hardly ever use more then 3-4gb of it, even superfetch only uses about 3-4gb of it normally....... Its just good saying to people that Ive got 8gb of memory:D:cool:

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You screenshot shows you only have 135MB free ;)

More RAM is always better IMO. I went for 16GB on my recent build as it's worth it just for the huge cache you can have. This stuff is dirt cheap these days so there is little point in not doing so.
 
RAM is only going to get cheaper. 8GB is not needed for gaming and won't be for quite some time....in fact by that time DDR3 is going to be fail
 
Not at the moment but to answer your actual question, then one day we will do yes.

At the moment 4gb is seen as a decent amount but a few years ago 512mb would have been a substantial!
 
I could be very very wrong but was thinking with higher resolutions etc now if your lacking vram wouldn't it then start making it up with system ram?

if thats the case having more wouldn't exactly hurt as not all cards have 2gb vram.
 
At some point I think there will come a time when more than 4GB is needed but not at the moment. Having that though I have recently bought (within the last 2 months ish) another 6GB of RAM for my machine (I now have 12GB) I do a fair bit of multitasking and various things so it gets used quite a lot though I have never ran out of RAM (yet :D).

At the moment I would say 4-6 is enough for gaming but with the 2x4GB sets being so cheap is there really any reason not to? I don't think so.

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Most likely not needed purely for gaming, but [on Win 7 x64] at the current prices I can't see a reason not to go with 8GB over 4GB. Even if only for multitasking (100 browser tabs open and your game minimised!?).
 
I got 4gbs of the xms3 ram but I think il add another 4 or 8 quite soon :-) just nice to have more than anything I think. Plus it really is dirt cheap, £35 on offer it was. Can't fall off with prices like that
 
Not until 32 bit OS's stop being produced and the percentage of people using them drops to a low enough level.

Developers won't program games that use over 4GB of memory until then because they will be cutting off too much of their userbase.
 
Im finding Arma 2 uses over 5gb sometimes. Only got 6 so glad its not too much but Im quite surprised its so far over 4 for the reasons hope states there.

It might be texture memory not sure but anyhow more then 4 is useful


32 bit only gives 3500 I found



Yurihyuga said:
I could be very very wrong but was thinking with higher resolutions etc now if your lacking vram wouldn't it then start making it up with system ram?

if thats the case having more wouldn't exactly hurt as not all cards have 2gb vram.
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Yes thats texture ram, it gets added onto the program size so its not totally clear without using a program to monitor usage. I have 1gb vram
 
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