Is 16gb of Ram Good?

[TheCityGuy2022]

Hello, I just got a new Acer Nitro 5 laptop that has 16gb of ram, but I have a question that is my laptop good enough for modding?

I have 2 DLCs

1 Content Creator Pack

And a few Hundreds to Thousands of mods/assets

[Honduken]

This game would run fine on 16gb of ram with heavy mods. Would probably be just fine with 8 to be honest.

[WhiteKnight77]

I have 16GB of RAM and run the game fine.

[snowflitzer]

I have 16GB but I have all DLC's, use mods and loads of assets.

I need a pagefile of 35GB :)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2114415052

[Tsubame ⭐]

It will be no issue, just make sure you have plenty of HD space for the page file to work.

[MarkJohnson]

I once had a collection of just under 1,000 growable assets 4x4 in size, level 5 residential and it was a little over 16GB by themselves. That means each asset was 16mb in size. I see some assets over 25mb and other under 10mb. so your milage will vary.

Now, you have run out of RAM, and the game will have to page stuff in and out of memory continuously and hurt your performance more and more over time of adding more workshop to your city.

What CPU and GPU do you have, as well? Since you have a laptop, then your CPU and GPU will throttle a lot and hurt your performance as well. Laptops are terrible for simulator type games like cities skylines.

[Ripp]

Do you have an extra $7,000.00 laying around growing mold, that you don't really need ? Thing is even if you do do you really want to spend that kind of money to play a $30.00 dollar game?

Don't get me wrong I've got 16Gig's too and if I could upgrade to 64 or 128 on the cheap I surely would as I learned a long long time ago that you can NEVER have too much memory.

Unfortunately, like you I have a laptop, and laptops are as a rule not upgradeable. Leaving me with little choice but to have a system special built or wait for new on the shelf systems with more RAM to hit the market in my area. In the mean time. As luck would have it with a 2Tb hard drive I can tap out a decent sized page file.

[snowflitzer]

Originally posted by Xeyeld:

Do you have an extra $7,000.00 laying around growing mold, that you don't really need ? Thing is even if you do do you really want to spend that kind of money to play a $30.00 dollar game?

Don't get me wrong I've got 16Gig's too and if I could upgrade to 64 or 128 on the cheap I surely would as I learned a long long time ago that you can NEVER have too much memory.

Unfortunately, like you I have a laptop, and laptops are as a rule not upgradeable. Leaving me with little choice but to have a system special built or wait for new on the shelf systems with more RAM to hit the market in my area. In the mean time. As luck would have it with a 2Tb hard drive I can tap out a decent sized page file.

+1

[Пещерный гНОМ]

Originally posted by Xeyeld:

Unfortunately, like you I have a laptop, and laptops are as a rule not upgradeable. Leaving me with little choice but to have a system special built or wait for new on the shelf systems with more RAM to hit the market in my area. In the mean time. As luck would have it with a 2Tb hard drive I can tap out a decent sized page file.

TBH you usually could add RAM to laptop up to some hardware limit. Yes, many modern laptops has soldered memory, but even in this case they frequently have free memory slot for extension.

On the other hand 16 GB is very typical amount of RAM for a gaming computer. Game consoles also have 16 Gigs, so many games won't require more than that. 32 GB is needed only for selected games, like some flight sims.

[Пещерный гНОМ]

> I just got a new Acer Nitro 5 laptop that has 16gb of ram, but I have a question that is my laptop good enough for modding?

You have your laptop and you ask US? We don't have your laptop. Just f***ng try!

[MarkJohnson]

I've only seen a few b8udget laptops with soldered memory. If you are worried about upgrading RAM for your laptop, then watch youtube video on disassembling your laptop's specific model.

I think Apple solders all of their mobile devices. At least the few I've had the pleasure of working on.

[Vrighty]

you get the biggest RAM issues when you have a lot of Assets from the Steamworkshop....
Suggestion: only subscribe to a few assets.... currently i need 32 of RAM (and it is 99% full).

No workshop assets = 16 gb RAM is enough!!

[AimlessArrow]

Originally posted by Vrighty:

you get the biggest RAM issues when you have a lot of Assets from the Steamworkshop....
Suggestion: only subscribe to a few assets.... currently i need 32 of RAM (and it is 99% full).

No workshop assets = 16 gb RAM is enough!!

I have nearly 1600 asstes loaded. Set up time around 1 min. Fps drops below 30 at saving or if im watching closely a well detailed building. Thousgh my biggest town is just over 100.000 pop. So 16 GB of RAM is fine so far.

[WhiteKnight77]

If my workshop page is right, I have subscribed to 416 different mods, assets and saved games. As I stated, I have 16GB of RAM and it only takes me a couple of minutes for a city to load.

[FrxshAxr]

16 gigs is absolutely enough to run the default game with all DLC's. When it comes to how many mods you can have it depends on your GPU, I've got a 2060 with 16 gigs and can run 2000 mods to a certain extent. I would recommend 1500 being your max tho as you can't reach a high population without running 2 frames with 2K mods.

[Moa]

Personally I have 16Gb Ram and my PC use only 40% ,
I use 25-30 mods +200 assets.
My GPU is not good enough though, I have a 1660 Ti with 6Gb Vram and it is always using between 90 and 99% of the Vram wich I think is causing my game to crash sometimes while the game is auto saving :( .