RAM Usage in games

[VincentHanna]

I've always been of the opinion that 8GB is more than enough for games.

Because I upgraded to an X99 system though, the smallest option was 16GB DDR4 which I have no problem with.

However, I've recently been monitoring RAM usage in the Rivatuna (MSI Afterburner) whilst playing WatchDogs and now Dying Light at 4k resolution and in both I saw RAM usage as high as 10-11GB!

Is it accurately reporting the usage? Or is Windows doing something funky so it might not really be using that much?

It's the Windows 9926 Jan 2015 Technical preview, so that could also be a factor?

Anyone else measure RAM usage and has noticed this?

 

[VincentHanna]

The most recent call of duty is crashing with my 8Gb saying it is running out of memory, but that game feels totally and completely broken, never gotten past about ten minutes without it crashing.

I do feel like upgrading to 16Gb though just to save the hassle of games with memory leaks.

Surely an instability with your system? It ran fine from the off on my old rig which had 8GB Ram.

Most people in the COD thread didn't have any issues. It was one of the better performing games 'out of the box' (so to speak) on 2014.

And by that I mean it was stable enough to play without loads of patches.