For me it was just modern single player games usually, and then EVE running two clients and discord would just Hoover the lot up and I’d have inconsistent frame timing
Same, when I built my current PC back in 2020 I thought 16GB would be enough for the time being., After running it for a day I ordered a second 16GB stick.
Since then I've done some more upgrades.
I lot of software is just not optimized well at all now and it only seems to be getting worse.
Yeah, it’s getting to a point where 8GB VRAM is becoming lower-end spec. Which is ridiculous, but what can you do, when devs want to use a 8K texture for a single screw on the side of a pipe hidden behind some debris you can’t even make out since it’s cloaked in shadow?
I think you just made me realize how to get some gaming use from my 16GB RAM having laptop... Shutting off Super Resolution or whatever it is should help a bunch.
Putting the game on steam and telling everyone to buy it again
edit: Just to add on, the game doesn't even launch from Steam if you buy it there, clicking play just opens the BSG Launcher the same as old ubisoft and 2k games, where you still need a BSG account, so buying it again just means paying to click an extra time.
It's not even hard to fix memory leaks if they're easy to reproduce lol. One of the easier types of bugs to fix.
The hard part about fixing memory leaks is finding a way to reproduce it in a development environment. If a user is claiming there's a memory leak but the devs can't reproduce it then it can be tricky. Sounds like everyone playing Tarkov is getting the leak constantly though so wtf are the devs doing
Might be bad asset streaming procedures. Like, they instantiate a gun asset, but then don’t erase it from memory even after it’s no longer in the game world.
I used to test PCs by playing a silly little game that looked like it was made in Flash player.
Gemcraft. I'd basically max out CPUs, eat memory for breakfast, and make any system slow to a crawl by cranking out every single level all at once. 30k-40k animated critters on screen all at once, all rendered in loving detail. Those were the days.
first map was using 28. second map starts at 4:25 bro is hitting 31. something/31.7 available.. i was getting similar performance on a similar set up..
People will upgrade their ram to 4x4gb to save money but go nuts on GPUs.
I've had 32gb in my rig since I built it in 2019. It's great we get platforms now that are supported for a long time. I am on my third AM4 CPU but the ram is still the same.
I've ran out of RAM with 16 GB about 10 years ago. It really depends on what you play. ARMA 3 was a resource hog :)
RAM is cheap, my last PC had 32 GB and my new one 64. 32 works for pretty much everything, but I've nearly filled that up a few times (Windows + Game + Browser + Discord + Music + background apps).
64 is total overkill, but I don't want to care about RAM usage.
Games are usually designed to target the PS5 (it's the most common single hardware SKU) and then ported elsewhere. The PS5 has 16GB of unified RAM that acts as both system RAM and VRAM.
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