Memory Usage (Technical Discussion Question)

[Alessondria]

Hey! I am wondering what the max amount of ram this game can use on a windows 7 x64-bit system. Following are the store page...

RECOMMENDED:
OS: Microsoft Windows 7, 8
Processor: 3.0 GHz Dual core or equivalent
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: DirectX 11 compliant graphics card with 1GB RAM
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 8 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX compatible sound card

I do have the base game and every DLC. I plan to start a sandbox game with SoA and Titans enabled. I do have some mods active...

Cinematic Skybox Flares
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=265670148
Revamped Skybox Textures
(Lower system RAM and video RAM usage than default skyboxes.) porb not much at all
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=322573915
MinimalHUD 0.6
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=262803550
HUDOverhaul for Starpoint Gemini 2
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=801739608

Everything is maxed out. I changed BorderlessWindow to 1 in the ini... Basically there is a reason why I am asking about max ram/ memory usage for this game. If a dev or some other number nerd knows please let me know in the comments below!

P.S. The mods should not effect ram usage. Slightly (or maybe no) via performance loss but my card handles this old game no problem that shouldn't matter.

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Also wondering if this is a x32 or x64 app and has the 'large memory' unlock been applied to it? I use the windows 7 beta as that's my OS and the main menu does not work without it.

[martydaparty4u]

If your ram get maxed anything over it flows to the page file on hard drive. Its a X86 exe. so 64bit game and i think large memory is a server type thing. 32bit is up to 4gb as 64bit is infinite. Still not sure really what your problem is.

[Alessondria]

problem is I am goingto be running something else long term that eats up nearly 1/2 my 8gb of ram so I am looking for a cool game in my library to get into. If this doesn't use over 4gb of memory (like even 250 hours into a game save) then this will work well. Having an app fight for ram and use more then X amount is annoying to me. I use legacy hardware so ya I don't have 128gb of ram like some kids do now-a-days.

[Alakbar]

Yea same thing martydaparty4u was saying about 4gigs then everything else gets paged out to the HDD. You should really concider upping to 16gigs though, you dont want to expose your harddrive to that much paging out thrashing.

Also run the game and that other thing you're wanting to run, alt tab out to the desktop and run the resource monitor so you can see how your system is handing all this.

[Alessondria]

8 gb ddr2 is max for the board. Unless I bought a new mobo, and cpu the ram won't get upgraded. Its too expensive and I just do not have the money to sink a few hundred into new parts. I'd likely get a new psu an ssd as well... so youcan see the cost of everything adds up fairly fast. Some time ago I upgraded from 4gb to 8gb of ram.

Now running my app plus windwows plus the various programs I can fit in another 4gb with room to spare. Closer to 5gb really but I want to save some for system allocation and program usage spikes.

Sometimes a game says something in the requiremets but it will use more. I was just making sure. Thanks to those whom replied.

[Alakbar]

Well the psu and ssd sounds like a good upgrade if thats as far as you can go. If you partition drives, it makes windows not work as hard in keeping file inventories. I did that on my old box and it worked great, and since I updated to something newer I still partition everything out of habbit.