Soldato
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- 12 May 2011
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I have an old "gaming" laptop that I use occasionally, when I'm poorly or we have visitors so I can't get into my office and game on my main desktop. It's got an i7340HQ, a 2GB Nvidia 650m and 8GB of RAM. It's running Windows 7.
The GPU is usually the limiting factor (I've downclocked the CPU so that the GPU stops throttling - this is a custom laptop that I specced myself and I think the cooling was only really meant for cooler CPUs...) but my current casual gaming addiction is Transport Fever 2. MSI afterburner often reports 7800Mb of RAM usage and whilst it runs OK just about, I was wondering if there was any way I could free up some more RAM?
To get 16GB of RAM it would cost about £40 or so and considering it is just this one game and the laptop is pretty EOL as a gaming laptop I don't really want to.
I would just download some more but unfortunately my net is down at the moment
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The GPU is usually the limiting factor (I've downclocked the CPU so that the GPU stops throttling - this is a custom laptop that I specced myself and I think the cooling was only really meant for cooler CPUs...) but my current casual gaming addiction is Transport Fever 2. MSI afterburner often reports 7800Mb of RAM usage and whilst it runs OK just about, I was wondering if there was any way I could free up some more RAM?
To get 16GB of RAM it would cost about £40 or so and considering it is just this one game and the laptop is pretty EOL as a gaming laptop I don't really want to.
I would just download some more but unfortunately my net is down at the moment
!
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