When to increase amount of memory

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Hi all

Not sure weather to put this here or in Gaming.


Anyway, my most memory hogging game (i think) is Flatout 2! while playing this my total memory usage goes up to about 825mb out of 1gb of memory. Would you say that I needed more memory or is it just a case of once you hit the 100% utilization you need to get more.

neil
 
Hmmm, I do get chugging on rare occasions...but put that down to harddrive activity! maybe its going into virtual memory. Will keep a note next time to look at me MO display to see how much is in use at that time....


I wasnt sure if windows holds a certain amount back for itself either..

neil :)
 
Hard drive activity chugging = not enough ram, as you said - virtual memory. If you can live with it don't bother, but nearly every game released nowadays needs 2gb of ram to run on highest without chuggery.
 
If you monitor your peak commit charge you'll know if you need more memory (it sounds like you're watching it already).

Provided that doesn't go over you total physical memory you're fine and more memory won't help you.
 
Hope you dont mind me using this thread as it seems to be the same question.

Minstadave can you check this and just confirm im reading it right.

My peak usage is 1.8Gig and I have 376mb free, meaning I need a upgrade.



Thanks in advance :cool:
 
Minstadave said:
You're using way over your 1GB of physical memory (what ap are you using that uses that much?).

If you're gaming you should get better load times with 2GB.

The most memory hungry thing I run at present is proberly Company Of Heroes...

KurTz said:
What GFX card you using?

6600GT 256MB

An extra gig of memory it is then. TY Minstadave
 
As mentioned, if your peak commit charge never exceeds 825meg, then you won't really gain much by adding more memory.

Interesting to see about Company of Heroes, if I get that I'll have to tweak some of the settings a bit as I only have 1gig RAM (and shan't be upgrading unless prices fall by at least 30% from current level).

One thing I've noticed in many games is that Texture quality setting has a big effect on memory. In games like FEAR and BF2 I found setting this to Medium saved a whole chunk of RAM.
 
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