How to use more RAM or cores?

drakioned

drakioned

drakioned

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Hi guys,

Can I get Windows to cache more stuff into RAM or otherwise get programs to be less conservative about RAM?

I have 16 cores and 64gb RAM on a gaming machine.

Cheers.
 
I would say this is more tied with the independent software rather than the OS itself. As an example one of the games I play allows you to adjust the Java memory footprint. So it will run fine on it's default value, but increasing its allowance allows it to use more.

This will be much harder for threads/cores as it will depend on how the software uses the hosts threads/cores.

Can i ask why you've got 64Gb installed?

I'm guessing you're only asking the question because you have a lot of resources that are not being used.
 
RAMdisks can help with using more RAM but if you have SSDs then arguably there's little benefit for a lot of messing about.

I miss the turbo button on PCs..
 
Semple said:
I would say this is more tied with the independent software rather than the OS itself. As an example one of the games I play allows you to adjust the Java memory footprint. So it will run fine on it's default value, but increasing its allowance allows it to use more.

This will be much harder for threads/cores as it will depend on how the software uses the hosts threads/cores.

Can i ask why you've got 64Gb installed?

I'm guessing you're only asking the question because you have a lot of resources that are not being used.
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wanted to fill up all the RAM slots.
 
drakioned said:
wanted to fill up all the RAM slots.
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Unless you plan on running several VM's or use it for heavy image/video editing etc. I'm going to bet a good 75% of that RAM will be sat there idling.

I don't think high-end games even on max settings will consume more than 16Gb.

Could always run memtest in the background :p
 
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