How much RAM do I need?

[[idiotsandwich]]

Soon I will build a game pc for playing cities skylines. I want to use a lot of mods. Is 8GB RAM enough or should I buy more?

[Sonic]

The more ram you install, the better. You have to know that CS at the programstart loads all assets into the ram. The number of your ram determines the asset limit. I currently have 32 GB, for my game start - 128 mods, 1686 active assets - are currently 14.4 GB RAM needed. Clear is also synonymous with 8 GB, but only with correspondingly fewer assets.

[Minoris]

You guys realize this thread is more than a year old, right? I don't think the OP needs advice any more.

[lys_knight]

I must admit: I had not realized it - You're right :)

[[idiotsandwich]]

Originally posted by Minoris:

You guys realize this thread is more than a year old, right? I don't think the OP needs advice any more.

Haha no I don't, a few days after I posted this I bought 16gb of ram for the PC I wanted te built. Too bad I don't play a lot of CS because I lack the creativity and patience..

[Scourge012]

Originally posted by idiotsandwich:

Soon I will build a game pc for playing cities skylines. I want to use a lot of mods. Is 8GB RAM enough or should I buy more?

The new standard for any gaming PC is 16 GB. While it's a bit more than Skylines will probably need, even modded to the hilt, RAM is fairly cheap (usually it's just about 20-60 USD per 4 GB stick unless you buy the super premium sticks that come overlocked...in which case it's more than that). Anyway, the point is, you should fill up your motherboard with RAM (or if not--stop at 16 GB).

The parts you want to compromise over might be either the motherboard itself (honestly, it's not worth it to buy a Motherboard for 3,000 USD that can support Quadruple SLI or whatever new scam video card companies are pulling these days). Most people only one run GOOD video card. Getting a motherboard that supports more than two cards in SLI mode is way overkill and will make you compromise on things like RAM, which are fairly cheap and should be bought abundance to future proof your machine.

[HamsterVolant]

32G as a minimum if you really want to play with plenty of assets those use really a lot of memory.
I personnally have 32G w/ 2900 assets and 100 mods. Mem used is about 25G.
64G will be even better if you can afford it.

[mpkio2]

As many have said, the more RAM, the better. Though, this all comes with the players "intent" ; whether they wanna play the vanilla game or game with mods and assets. 8GB RAM is good for the vanilla game, but playing with mods and assets, 16GB is minimum.

My rig:
ASUS i5-4690K 3.5ghz
16GB RAM
1TB Hard Drive
Geforce GTX 960 4GB

Even with my specs, I am getting some big lag issues with the FPS sometimes falling below the tens and sometimes freezing altogether (Saying that, I do have 100+ mods and over 2000assets so yeah, a performance hit is exspected! :P. )
I am planning on getting another 16GB so I can play with 32GB. :)

[grapplehoeker]

Originally posted by mpkio2:

16GB RAM
1TB Hard Drive
Even with my specs, I am getting some big lag issues with the FPS sometimes falling below the tens and sometimes freezing altogether (Saying that, I do have 100+ mods and over 2000assets so yeah, a performance hit is exspected! :P. )
I am planning on getting another 16GB so I can play with 32GB. :)

32GB will be a bonus but still not enough for the quantity of assets you're already subscribed to.
Your RAM capacity of 16GB is only enough for about 800 of your 2000 unpacked assets. The remainder is being written to a page file on your hard drive.
So, as you say, more RAM the better, but also curb your Workshop addiction and try to keep your custom content within your RAM capacity.

[Slick Gamble]

8 is not enough for what you wanna do. Go for 16 at the minimum. That'll last you about 1200 assets, then you'll be running out of memory and will start page swapping. Page swapping is not desirable, even with a ssd sata drive, which is what I install CS: S and my assets on, as my drive is not just a boot drive. Hindsight, I wish I dropped the money for 32 gb memory sticks.

[Idok]

this game is very hungry for ram if interested in alot of assets and mods like 400+assets 70+mods 16GB is needed at loading screens

[[idiotsandwich]]

Thanks for all the advice, but I bought the PC more than a year ago (with 16GB of RAM btw) so I don't need all the reactions anymore.

[Marksman]

Originally posted by ualdriver:

I use 8.

I play with 15 mods and over 500 assets no problem

What is your gpu and cpu? I got about 500 asset mods and like 20 normal mods and when population is around 800k fps is like only 15 :D

[cosmiroq]

8 GB should give you enough to have a couple of essential mods, but I would recommend 16 GB if you have a lot of assets and detail.

[Metacritical]

Originally posted by kozing4ur:

8 GB should give you enough to have a couple of essential mods, but I would recommend 16 GB if you have a lot of assets and detail.

the OP bought the PC (with 16GB of RAM) three years ago...

[leftbehind]

Note that the game engine will try and push as much unused stuff out to disk swap file (paging file on Windows) so that's important too.

I have 32GB RAM but game only uses 12 GB for the actively used assets that are placed on map. It also shoves about 26 GB of unused assets out to the swap file.

Based on personal experience, manually setting Windows page file, ideally on same drive as game (I have no idea why tbh, but it works best this way) to minimum size being same as your RAM and maximum size being 2 x RAM works really well.

There's more detailed information and videos in the Performance Tuning Guide:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=465790009