Time to replace 10 yr old ram?

[ajtupman]

As a gamer is there ever any reason to want/need more than 16gb of ram? Would 32gb be better or would I see no benefit at all?

The only reason I ask is during some games, Ark and GTA5 in particular my game will crash, citing lack of memory, or Windows is running low on memory. close program yes/no.

The memory I have now is 16gb Corsair Vengeance LP. It is ten years old though so could this be the problem?

Any recommendations on brands and amounts/speed etc are greatly appreciated...

 

[ajtupman]

16gb is plenty. More than plenty. Have you messed with the windows page file? Or have you run some type of ssd os optimisation tool in an attempt to free up as much ssd space as possible?

I'd say you have probably manually set the page file to a certain limit rather than allowing windows to manage it.

Ok, the page file thing sounds faintly familiar, what size should it be in windows 10 with 16gb ram?