Does it really need all 4 of the required GB RAM?

[OverworldLord]

I would like to buy this game, but it says in the requirements that it requires 4 GB RAM. This is more than many games require, such as team fortress 2, but the requirements say it needs this.

[mimizukari]

If it says that it needs it, then it probably needs it. I run 8gb of ram, and it runs fine for me.

[TheLoneSurvivors]

That's more than likely a reccommended requirement, you'll probably get away with 2gb of Ram

[mimizukari]

Originally posted by Everton121:

That's more than likely a reccommended requirement, you'll probably get away with 2gb of Ram

Don't count on it, Bindings of Isaac says it requires 2 gb, and it means it, if you're under it, it runs incredibly sluggishly, 2d games nowadays need a lot of ram.

[HeavyArms]

you can get away with it but expect poorer performance...

[mimizukari]

to back up my statement, going into utilities mode heavily slows the game down on 8 gb ram; i'd expect anything 4 or under to take a dive.

[Mister Wiggles]

Originally posted by Fizar:

to back up my statement, going into utilities mode heavily slows the game down on 8 gb ram; i'd expect anything 4 or under to take a dive.

RAM isn't the source of the slowdown with utilities mode. You could have 32gb in your system and still have the issue.

[Sol4rSky]

You don't need 4gb of ram. The game is in ALPHA and those system requirements are most likely not final, when you go into utlities and you get the slow down it's because of the amount of wires and such that is there. If you had noticed when you prolongue a wire that gets many connectors on lights and such it uses that lighting effect and having a lot of wires one by one has this effect practically be spammed having way too many particles and it just slows down the game, think it overly uses the gpu but it's def not a ram issue or a gpu issue it's a game issue that'll probably get fixed but it's not even a big deal.

The game asks for 4gb of ram just to make sure you'll have no issue throughout the development imo, like if it was recommending 1 gb ram assuming it's alpha, changes are to come and those changes might make that 1 gb of ram not enough having to ask for 2gb after so you see what I mean? Plus as your prison grows bigger, more items, more inmates more stuff it'll use more memory, but like I said you'd prob do fine with less than 4gb.

As long as you have at least 2gb of ram you should be on the green side, and i mean 2gb FREE not 2gb while windows uses 1,2gb you know leaving you with only 800 free mem.

[DominusInferos]

this game in its current incarnation is a memory hog, while no where near as bad as a super huge game of civ 5 there is still a lot going on, when the game says it needs four GB it means it. on my desktop i have 16GB out of a maximum of 32 but performance still isn't as fast while actively playing as i would like. that being said, putting game time on pause stops everything and greatly improves frame rate and response times so building and designing on the fly is a lot slower than when paused.

[Anky Painter]

it would help but you dont need 4gb of ram i have 2 and it runs fine.

[Sol4rSky]

I just opened up a HUGE ASS Prison form the workshop, it was using 498(mb)ram, that's 500(mb)ram, half of giga, add more ppl and maybe it'd go higher but the point is, 4gb is def not needed; Also when a game requests 4 gb of ram it doesn't literally mean it 4gb just for that game, it's also taken into cosndieration what the windows uses etc.

Originally posted by Trinitrotoluene:

this game in its current incarnation is a memory hog, while no where near as bad as a super huge game of civ 5 there is still a lot going on, when the game says it needs four GB it means it. on my desktop i have 16GB out of a maximum of 32 but performance still isn't as fast while actively playing as i would like. that being said, putting game time on pause stops everything and greatly improves frame rate and response times so building and designing on the fly is a lot slower than when paused.

your performance isn't that good with a huge prison not because of your ram but because of your GPU /cpu and the game itself not being well optimized for 539359359 things spawned in.

as in too many placed lights and so on.

[DominusInferos]

Originally posted by MasacruAlex:

your performance isn't that good with a huge prison not because of your ram but because of your GPU /cpu and the game itself not being well optimized for 539359359 things spawned in.

as in too many placed lights and so on.

the game may not be optimized yet and since i am not using a nvidia graphics card i dont have the extra processing power of the CUDA cores but i am still using a core i-7 3770k processor. now there are a LOT of things being processed on the fly such as water flow, electricity flow, shortest path for escape routes, staff pathing and the like. so it is possible that my system cant keep up with my massive prison but we are still talking about a lot of system resources being used.

[OverworldLord]

Originally posted by Trinitrotoluene:

this game in its current incarnation is a memory hog, while no where near as bad as a super huge game of civ 5 there is still a lot going on, when the game says it needs four GB it means it.

Really? Civ 5 works for me. Well, it crashes now and again, which is part of the reason I posted this thread, so I know if it happens here, too.

Originally posted by RealINandOUT:

it would help but you dont need 4gb of ram i have 2 and it runs fine.

Alright, thanks for letting me know. :)

Originally posted by MasacruAlex:

...it was using 498(mb)ram, that's 500(mb)ram, half of giga, add more ppl and maybe it'd go higher but the point is, 4gb is def not needed; Also when a game requests 4 gb of ram it doesn't literally mean it 4gb just for that game, it's also taken into cosndieration what the windows uses etc.

I know it probably won't use all 4 GB, but I wanted to make sure everyone else was OK before putting 29.99$ into a game that might not even work.

[DominusInferos]

Originally posted by The Slenderman:

Really? Civ 5 works for me. Well, it crashes now and again, which is part of the reason I posted this thread, so I know if it happens here, too.

i've never actually had a crash but when you max out the number of AI players on a max size map the computer controlled turn can really eat up memory in a brutal way, the last time i did this was with 24GB of ram on my old core i-7 920 and task manager had a lot of bumbers for me on how much memory civ5 was eating up to run that late game war of conquest lol

[OverworldLord]

I bought and tried it out, it worked. Thanks!