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Battlefield 4 Recommended Requirements - 3GB Vram

Some games/apps just use more memory so I'm guessing BF4 does, although I can't see it being an issue, nearly everyone has 8 now anyway. Even crap laptops come with 8.
 
everything in vram is also in ram - it's like a swap file

hence why having the gpu and cpu using the same set of ram is an upcoming technology

so it probably just reflects that stuff plus 2gb of vram would fit on 4gb before... but stuff plus 3gb you're better off with more than 4gb... 6gb is probably fine, but these days we deal in dual channel so you'd likely be buying 8gb.
 
billysielu said:
so it probably just reflects that stuff plus 2gb of vram would fit on 4gb before... but stuff plus 3gb you're better off with more than 4gb... 6gb is probably fine, but these days we deal in dual channel so you'd likely be buying 8gb.
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One of the most confusing sentences I've read on here :D

Nearly as bad as that BF4 devs message :D
 
Most games don't need a huge amount of memory to run. The higher system RAM is for caching game data (particularly textures and so forth), so that when there isn't enough VRAM to cache them, the system can send them across very quickly without having to read them from disk. That tends to show up as spikes in latency/performance graphs, rather than big stutters. If there's not enough VRAM or system RAM for adequate caching, you get major stuttering.
 
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