Can i run v rising with 8gb ram

[PP Ranflas]

I badly wanna play this game but can it run.I know 12gb ram is Minimum.Please let me know if any one play with 8gb ram
My pc specs are :
Intel i5 4570
Geforce Gtx 1050 2gb
8gb ram

[Purifier]

You might be able to yes. If you and the game will be happy running i doubt.
Windows and basic software need bout 6GB and that is without any user app (browsers, mediaplayer,Steam etc.
So i would certainly not advice it.
On the other hand if you are able to run the games i see in your profile... I dare say V Rising is a lot less needy then for example Dying Light or the bad performance heavy Ark Survival.

[Genk Rasuke]

Originally posted by Purifier:

You might be able to yes. If you and the game will be happy running i doubt.
Windows and basic software need bout 6GB and that is without any user app (browsers, mediaplayer,Steam etc.
So i would certainly not advice it.
On the other hand if you are able to run the games i see in your profile... I dare say V Rising is a lot less needy then for example Dying Light or the bad performance heavy Ark Survival.

I tested it with 8gb of ram, the moment arrives and out of nowhere it closes the game, the problem is that I can run it fine. I doubt it's an error in the steam description. Because if it was 12gb it wouldn't even open the game for me.

[Purifier]

Originally posted by Shura BR:

Originally posted by Purifier:

You might be able to yes. If you and the game will be happy running i doubt.
Windows and basic software need bout 6GB and that is without any user app (browsers, mediaplayer,Steam etc.
So i would certainly not advice it.
On the other hand if you are able to run the games i see in your profile... I dare say V Rising is a lot less needy then for example Dying Light or the bad performance heavy Ark Survival.

I tested it with 8gb of ram, the moment arrives and out of nowhere it closes the game, the problem is that I can run it fine. I doubt it's an error in the steam description. Because if it was 12gb it wouldn't even open the game for me.

You are partly correct and partly wrong. Minimum game requirements don't mean anything lower does/can not run the game.
Minimum requirements are what the dev team knows can run the game normally. Anything below that and they do/can not guarantee that the game runs normally.

In your case, your PC probably ran out of RAM, minimum required for the game to even run. Your PC (OS) decided that V Rising is the program with the lowest priority and the highest usage so it shut it down to free up RAM for other programs, including the OS, to keep running.

[PP Ranflas]

with my specs i can run new world but after 1 or 2 hour gameplay game stutters a lot...

[QuietNerd]

Same situation, and same result.

Yes you can technically open and play the game with 8GB RAM, but after 20-30 minutes or in the middle of a battle that starts loading resources one after the other, the game will freeze and immediately close.

I tried to push through it but it's just sooo freaking annoying after a while.

I'll just hope after they release the complete game they will optimize the game to use less RAM, because this is absurd.

[Morse]

The server alone eats 4 gigs, so if you play on dedicated you might be OK.

[This PC]

You all need to understand what happens when you're under 12gb. Having under the required amount of ram will never keep you from running a game, just that the additional "ram space" will be drawn from your hard drive instead, using windows pagefile thing (linux uses an alternate logical drive called 'swap', still on your HDD/SSD tho~). Once the game starts using HDD/SSD space to house data that should be in ram, your performance will start decreasing sharply over time. Starting to look a lot like that memory leak that keeps being reported. I've actually confirmed with some of the people that have these memory leaks that they have less than required amount of ram (not everyone though, there's definitely memory leakage still on a small amount of configs).

With that context is mind, this is a bad assumption (no offense):

Originally posted by Shura BR:

I tested it with 8gb of ram, the moment arrives and out of nowhere it closes the game, the problem is that I can run it fine. I doubt it's an error in the steam description. Because if it was 12gb it wouldn't even open the game for me.

This is closer to what's actually happening:

Originally posted by Cheddar:

Same situation, and same result.

Yes you can technically open and play the game with 8GB RAM, but after 20-30 minutes or in the middle of a battle that starts loading resources one after the other, the game will freeze and immediately close.

I tried to push through it but it's just sooo freaking annoying after a while.

I'll just hope after they release the complete game they will optimize the game to use less RAM, because this is absurd.

The game crashing probably means that it's more sensitive than others to data in pagefile, and like... It's more modern than most games, and due to its nature, I suspect it loads more assets than average (all of them is even a possibility in this case) in memory to ensure you're not having popin while riding your horse across across the landscape. This is the reason why you can't do an honest comparison with another game because it's not the same context. Cyberpunk clearly streams assets in and out, for example. No, I don't think they'll adjust ram requirements. If anything, ram requirements will go up to accomodate the additional assets of the new zone being loaded in.

Ram usage going down would probably require them to use a solution like streaming in assets, which would still bottleneck lower performance machine with popin and the like when you're riding fast across landscapes, nevermind the fact that they would be changing how the game works on a very fundamental level, which would require a lot of work.

I think V can't use streaming assets because of its pvp nature anyways, imagine warping into silverlight and you're having the environment popin around you for 20 seconds while someone you can't even see is smacking your face. xD Another alternative to that is having the zones split into individual zones that have loading screens between them, which also sounds undesirable to me.

[R131]

i know you dont want to hear it, but its about £24 for 2x8 gb DDR3 ram, its definitely worth it to play this gem.

Should make the whole PC run a little nicer too.

[Drusilla]

Idk man I buy Ram for this game

[theworld]

Originally posted by Cheddar:

Same situation, and same result.
Yes you can technically open and play the game with 8GB RAM, but after 20-30 minutes or in the middle of a battle that starts loading resources one after the other, the game will freeze and immediately close.

I've played the entire game just fine on 8 GB for 300 hours, but you cannot be the server, i.e. you cannot self-host and be single player.

You can play on official servers or 3rd party servers, 8 GB is enough.

[Astaroth]

I have 16 gb ram and after 30+ minutes the game used start to slow down, get choppy, and "lag" even though I'm playing single player hosted on my own PC.

However after the recent hotfix which addressed some memory leak I don't seem to have this issue anymore, or at least it takes long enough before it kicks in that I haven't had it happen again.


I'm on Linux and the just the OS + Steam is sub 2GB ram, and I used run out of memory even though I had 14GB. (although I have integrated graphics so -2gb vram for graphics)

Something more to note is I play single player, so presumably more resources are used as I also have to host the game locally instead of just joining a server


Anyway, before 6th gloomrot hotfix I could barely play for 30~60 minutes before lag -> crash/freeze/hanging and now I can play at least 2+ hours, while being at or very close to minimum system requirements.

So depending on how resource intensive the server hosting is, maybe you could play the game if you join a server instead of having to host one. I don't know the difference because I haven't even tried playing multiplayer.


Although like someone else mentioned Windows 10 and 11 love using up your resources with crap, so you'd probably have to look into one of those windows bloat removal tools or what not (or you could always switch to Linux...)

[Armada]

i have been playing the game with 8gb for a month now. Its definately playable but game will stutter when you enter a new area and the game will slow down quite a bit if you had explored the whole map in a single session.

[@xaker89]

8 is more than enough

[grraf]

My previous config up till a few weeks ago was: i5-8th gen+ GTX 1050TI but i had 16gb of ram and was using arch linux...for me both single PvE and coop PvE worked smooth and with no issues at all but i did have to lower some eye candy factors like shadows to avoid getting micro stutters when engaged in massive battles.
So yeah in your case you should be able to run it just fine if you will be using minimum graphical settings and have smb else host the server otherwise your ram will bottle neck you for sure.

As others have said you should preferably have at least 16GB especially since your gpu only has 2GB(so a very sizable chunk of the graphical assets will have to go to your ram instead ) and the more updates this game gets the more assets will need to get stored in either yr gpu's vram or in the ram.

So while taken in isolation yr config can comfortably run the game with lower settings it will be a choppy experience due to the engine having to constantly swap in/out assets so the only valid solutions here in order of effectiveness are as follows:
1)New gpu with preferably 8GB of vram or more
2)More ram, 16gb will cut it IF you de-bloat your OS to smth reasonable like no more then 4GB(hard to do for a windows user but trivial for a linux user(for context my arch install is idling at ~500mb if no app is running)
3)Have the game installed on a SSD this one can help a lot as well but its obviously less effective then having enough vram/ram for the game to load up all its assets into.

[grraf]

Originally posted by @xaker89:

8 is more than enough

It depends on how much memory yr gpu has and if you are the one hosting or not.