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Dhafar May 25, 2018 @ 8:33pm
is 4gb ram enough to play cities skylines?
I was wondering if i can play cities skylines with 4gb ram. Can anyone tell me if 4gb ram is enough:steamhappy:
Last edited by Dhafar; May 25, 2018 @ 8:34pm
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Pixus May 25, 2018 @ 8:49pm 
The minimum and recommended Windows specs say that you should have at least 4 GB RAM and 6 GB RAM respectively, so I think if you're playing with low settings, you should probably be fine.
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Apples May 25, 2018 @ 8:51pm 
Without modding, yes.
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rajwarrior May 25, 2018 @ 8:54pm 
Not really, no. The minimum required of 4gb was when CS first out. With the various updates, it simply isn't enough. Your OS takes 2 gb to run and CS takes 3gb with no mods/assets. You're already at a deficit. Add in mods and other open windows like say a browser...
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Apples May 25, 2018 @ 8:58pm 
Originally posted by rajwarrior:
Not really, no. The minimum required of 4gb was when CS first out. With the various updates, it simply isn't enough. Your OS takes 2 gb to run and CS takes 3gb with no mods/assets. You're already at a deficit. Add in mods and other open windows like say a browser...


Pagefile is a thing ya know?
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jherg May 25, 2018 @ 9:03pm 
no you cant
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letsTPKothers May 25, 2018 @ 9:11pm 
4gb is under what id recommend to others but depends entirely on your video card in your case ithink.
if it is a good card with alot of onboard memory you should be fine. just dont expect awesomeness.
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rajwarrior May 25, 2018 @ 9:23pm 
Originally posted by Apples:
Pagefile is a thing ya know?

So is stupidity. I wouldn't recommend either. They'll both let you down in the end.
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Viper May 25, 2018 @ 9:25pm 
I don't think so actually. Not sure how much the Vanilla game takes up in memory. But my game with most of the DLC purchased ( except Disasters) even the latest Park DLC takes up right at 5 GB just for the game. That is with no mods and no custom assets. So that i s minimum with all DLC. And then you have to add your OS. With my mods and 1200 custom assets enabled it takes up 8.3G of memory. about 10 GB overall. I just tested both cases....
Last edited by Viper; May 25, 2018 @ 9:32pm
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Viper May 25, 2018 @ 9:30pm 
And you don't want to use the pagefile. HDD storage is about 100 times slower than memory. and your game will crawl along.
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Viper May 25, 2018 @ 9:36pm 
The reason the game is such a memory hog is that it loads every single asset that is enabled into memory. It does not access anything off the disk. Once you start playing the game is not using the HDD very much anymore. Not sure about sound files or if there are movies that might still be streamed from storage. But it is probably necessary if it was pulling all those assets off disk it would most likely be very stuttery and slow.
Last edited by Viper; May 25, 2018 @ 9:37pm
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Dhafar May 25, 2018 @ 10:39pm 
my problem is that the loading TAKES SO LONG (And it sometimes crashes)!:steamsad:
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grapplehoeker (Banned) May 26, 2018 @ 2:24am 
Originally posted by Dhafar:
my problem is that the loading TAKES SO LONG (And it sometimes crashes)!:steamsad:
No, your problem is you do not have enough freely available memory to play this game.
If you have 4GB of RAM, then your operating system and other background tasks/apps will be using at least half of that. So you would have less than 2GB of RAM for a game that now requires at least 5GB with no DLC's or custom content.
Last edited by grapplehoeker; May 26, 2018 @ 2:27am
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Noodle May 26, 2018 @ 4:37am 
It's free for 2 days ATM so just try it.
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Shogal May 26, 2018 @ 4:43am 
I ran this game with 4 free Gb RAM, but when i started first city - it started to eat my RAM quickly and half of windows programs crashed because they could not allocate heap memory.
Then i rebooted PC completely and started game again - it ate 5.6 Gb (vanilla, without any DLC or mods, because DLCs are not on free weekend). So information about 4 Gb minimum is just a lie - it's enough only to run menu, but not to load any city.
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grapplehoeker (Banned) May 26, 2018 @ 4:51am 
Originally posted by Shogal:
I ran this game with 4 free Gb RAM, but when i started first city - it started to eat my RAM quickly and half of windows programs crashed because they could not allocate heap memory.
Then i rebooted PC completely and started game again - it ate 5.6 Gb (vanilla, without any DLC or mods, because DLCs are not on free weekend). So information about 4 Gb minimum is just a lie - it's enough only to run menu, but not to load any city.
It wasn't a lie when the game was released, but it is poor Store page maintenance.
There is a more fundamental problem than Paradox' laxness in updating the requirements and that is that many players don't even comprehend what's written there. Any RAM requirement means available RAM. Many players that aren't tech savvy will see that and think well hey I have 4GB RAM, so I'm good to go, but they don't take into account that at least half of their RAM is already being used and therefore they have less than half the available memory required.
I tried to address this long ago with this guide.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=823524786
My advice to anyone considering purchasing this or any game in fact (even a freebie due to a promotion) would be to ignore the minimum requirements completely and always refer to the recommended requirements instead.
Last edited by grapplehoeker; May 26, 2018 @ 4:53am
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