would this game run better on 8gb ram?

[weeklongworld]

i run this a 15fps its playable to me would i get better framerate on 8gb ram vs 4gb i play on 4gb of ram

[¬G.P¬ мเиเ קµяקℓэ ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)]

download MSI Afterburner and instal RTSS when it asks, then u can configure it to monitor ur pc, that way u'll b able to know y u getting such crappy framerate.

[Huntsman-Cammando58]

when running beamng go control alt delete open up task manager go onto the process list right click each one taht says beamng click Set priority then select High (raeltime doesnt work for me so it goes to high) this got me from leggit 40 fps on main screen to 400+ although everytime you open or close game it will reset to priority normal

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Publicado originalmente por General-Cammando58(̲̅R̲̅)̈́Ë́C҉:

when running beamng go control alt delete open up task manager go onto the process list right click each one taht says beamng click Set priority then select High (raeltime doesnt work for me so it goes to high) this got me from leggit 40 fps on main screen to 400+ although everytime you open or close game it will reset to priority normal

i suggest u try not setting ur game to high priority and checking ur framerate again, u cant get such improvements by just setting the priority to high, also its good that u cant set it to realtime, u should never NEVER N-E-V-E-R set the priority of a process to realtime unless u actually know what u're doing.
PS: u can also try the method i suggested, that way u know what the heck is going on with ur pc.

[Rookie-31st]

Publicado originalmente por weeklongworld:

i run this a 15fps its playable to me would i get better framerate on 8gb ram vs 4gb i play on 4gb of ram

First of all, what is your graphics card? Is it on-board chip, or dedicated?

[Nadeox1]

RAM will not help much with your FPS.
It will mainly help against micro-freezes and freezes.

For your FPS, you should check CPUs and GPUs mainly.

[Los.Injurus.Bob.Blunderton]

If you press J while driving around it will pause physics:

If you see FPS go *UP* when physics is paused, get a better CPU!
If you DO NOT see FPS go up when physics paused (it remains the same), set your video options to low or lowest, and/or buy a better video card.
8gb of system ram would be a good purchase for your PC. If you have a desktop, and buy the same type of ram, you can add it to what you already have for a whopping 12gb. That would be enough to run just about anything released in the next two years (possibly longer?). If you can't afford 8gb, try just adding 4gb to your pc. Make sure to match the voltage and speed.
Turn off car collisions with other cars in the gameplay options, it may help your FPS some.
If it doesn't, you're likely video-bound and the cpu might not be the culprit. You won't be able to make a car crash into another car if this 'disable collisions' is checked.

If your CPU is slow, and pausing physics makes the game smooth again, consider updating the CPU in the computer to one with a higher GHZ rating. If you change out a 2ghz model, for the same line with a 3.5ghz model, you'd expect almost double the performance! However, not all computers made today respond well to a CPU update (if one is even available).
If you have an AMD machine you may be better off buying an intel pentium/i3 3ghz or faster processor and starting from there. Any Intel CPU model series 4xxx and higher (4xxx 5xxx 6xxx and soon 7xxx series i3/i5/i7 & pentium or celeron (if applicable) has the improved MATH CO-PROCESSOR inside the cpu. This improvement is a BIG BOOST to Beam physics calculations - almost two-fold - or atleast 50% improvement.


Example: If I set video settings to low, I can get WELL BEYOND 100fps on an i7 4790k cpu - 7 cars WITH AI is still fully fluid (though not over 100fps anymore!!!) but it cost a few hundred dollars for the cpu, a few hundred for the motherboard, and my video card just as much - same for the SSD's I bought to keep loading times down. HOWEVER, this is a purpose built Beamng.drive computer - not everyone has that. This will atleast show you what you should look at upgrading first, to help your FPS. Granted, I can use medium or high settings and still see 100+ fps in many places, but for the purpose of seeing the max my CPU could push, I turned down the settings. Crushing a whole car into a car-pancake will obviously drop the FPS a bit during the action. This is normal.

You can snag a reasonable CPU for 75$~200$, a motherboard for 75~150$ +, some ram (if it takes DDR4 instead of DDR3), and a new copy of windows (50~120$) if your's is OEM and tied to your current motherboard. You don't need an i7, you just need an Intel CPU with decent GHZ speed around 3ghz or better for nice fluid game-play and a half-decent video card (75~150$).
Video card to lookup if you need them: Radeon Rx 460 or 470, R9 280 3gb, or Nvidia 1060, or Nvidia 1050 Ti. On-cpu integrated video isn't always so good but if you don't mind 720p or 30fps max, well then it will get you by, just keep in mind it may not be officially supported by the developers of the game.

For AMD-fans out there, please don't think I am bashing AMD. I had an FX chip. It performed horribly in cpu-bound applications so I upgraded. I don't hate AMD in fact I am really stoked for the ZEN upgrade coming along next month - let's hope RyZen is good.

For anyone still with me - AMD RYZEN mentioned above (ZEN), will be out the 2nd week of JANUARY or so, in just under a month, and will feature awesome new architecture and power equivelant to a 59xx or 69xx intel X99-based workstation CPU. This is good. Rendering demos done in BLENDER program are a very reasonable benchmark of what to expect (if the demonstration wasn't rigged, and was honest) with regards to Beamng.drive physics number crunching. The FPU-(math processor!) that does physics inside the AMD cpu is also seriously improved and should offer double the performance on that alone. If this is true, it will be a true alternative and really open the floodgates for running seriously multi-car Beamng.drive races AFFORDABLY in the future. All you FX AMD users should look up Anandtech's or Guru3d's articles and previews on ZEN, and coverage of press demos. Anyone in the market for a CPU should wait until mid-January as CPU prices may drop quick in the time after - so it's worth the wait!!!

--Best of luck, will check back tomorrow.

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Publicado originalmente por Beamng.drive Tennessee USA v5:

If you press J while driving around it will pause physics:

If you see FPS go *UP* when physics is paused, get a better CPU!
If you DO NOT see FPS go up when physics paused (it remains the same), set your video options to low or lowest, and/or buy a better video card.
8gb of system ram would be a good purchase for your PC. If you have a desktop, and buy the same type of ram, you can add it to what you already have for a whopping 12gb. That would be enough to run just about anything released in the next two years (possibly longer?). If you can't afford 8gb, try just adding 4gb to your pc. Make sure to match the voltage and speed.
Turn off car collisions with other cars in the gameplay options, it may help your FPS some.
If it doesn't, you're likely video-bound and the cpu might not be the culprit. You won't be able to make a car crash into another car if this 'disable collisions' is checked.

If your CPU is slow, and pausing physics makes the game smooth again, consider updating the CPU in the computer to one with a higher GHZ rating. If you change out a 2ghz model, for the same line with a 3.5ghz model, you'd expect almost double the performance! However, not all computers made today respond well to a CPU update (if one is even available).
If you have an AMD machine you may be better off buying an intel pentium/i3 3ghz or faster processor and starting from there. Any Intel CPU model series 4xxx and higher (4xxx 5xxx 6xxx and soon 7xxx series i3/i5/i7 & pentium or celeron (if applicable) has the improved MATH CO-PROCESSOR inside the cpu. This improvement is a BIG BOOST to Beam physics calculations - almost two-fold - or atleast 50% improvement.


Example: If I set video settings to low, I can get WELL BEYOND 100fps on an i7 4790k cpu - 7 cars WITH AI is still fully fluid (though not over 100fps anymore!!!) but it cost a few hundred dollars for the cpu, a few hundred for the motherboard, and my video card just as much - same for the SSD's I bought to keep loading times down. HOWEVER, this is a purpose built Beamng.drive computer - not everyone has that. This will atleast show you what you should look at upgrading first, to help your FPS. Granted, I can use medium or high settings and still see 100+ fps in many places, but for the purpose of seeing the max my CPU could push, I turned down the settings. Crushing a whole car into a car-pancake will obviously drop the FPS a bit during the action. This is normal.

You can snag a reasonable CPU for 75$~200$, a motherboard for 75~150$ +, some ram (if it takes DDR4 instead of DDR3), and a new copy of windows (50~120$) if your's is OEM and tied to your current motherboard. You don't need an i7, you just need an Intel CPU with decent GHZ speed around 3ghz or better for nice fluid game-play and a half-decent video card (75~150$).
Video card to lookup if you need them: Radeon Rx 460 or 470, R9 280 3gb, or Nvidia 1060, or Nvidia 1050 Ti. On-cpu integrated video isn't always so good but if you don't mind 720p or 30fps max, well then it will get you by, just keep in mind it may not be officially supported by the developers of the game.

For AMD-fans out there, please don't think I am bashing AMD. I had an FX chip. It performed horribly in cpu-bound applications so I upgraded. I don't hate AMD in fact I am really stoked for the ZEN upgrade coming along next month - let's hope RyZen is good.

For anyone still with me - AMD RYZEN mentioned above (ZEN), will be out the 2nd week of JANUARY or so, in just under a month, and will feature awesome new architecture and power equivelant to a 59xx or 69xx intel X99-based workstation CPU. This is good. Rendering demos done in BLENDER program are a very reasonable benchmark of what to expect (if the demonstration wasn't rigged, and was honest) with regards to Beamng.drive physics number crunching. The FPU-(math processor!) that does physics inside the AMD cpu is also seriously improved and should offer double the performance on that alone. If this is true, it will be a true alternative and really open the floodgates for running seriously multi-car Beamng.drive races AFFORDABLY in the future. All you FX AMD users should look up Anandtech's or Guru3d's articles and previews on ZEN, and coverage of press demos. Anyone in the market for a CPU should wait until mid-January as CPU prices may drop quick in the time after - so it's worth the wait!!!

--Best of luck, will check back tomorrow.

+1, but just to add up: cpu frequency doesnt say much, for exemple, the intel Xeon E5 2699 V4, it runs at 2.2Ghz, but it has 22 cores and hypertheading, not only the frequency will be different but also the core count, hyperthreading, and performance per core, and u have to consider the application its gonna be running, in this case, BeamNG.drive. the xeon e5 2699 v4 will make the i7 6950x cry on cinebench r15, but on games things are different.
now to add to your tutorial on how-to-tell-if-its-the-gpu-or-cpu, using the MSI Afterburner with the settings to show FPS, GPU Usage and PER core usage(not an avarage cpu usage), u can tell if its the cpu or gpu that is being maxed out and need an upgrade, or the game itself is not utilizing all of ur cpu cores. i know u wanted to keep things simple but i love the complexity <3

[weeklongworld]

i have a intel core i3 4130 3.4ghz
4gb ddr3 ram
intel hd 4400 1gb

[DmAnd]

Publicado originalmente por weeklongworld:

i have a intel core i3 4130 3.4ghz
4gb ddr3 ram
intel hd 4400 1gb

eeeeek

i guess we now know what the problem is.
your cpu should be just fine for this game. You definitly need a new gpu.

[weeklongworld]

Publicado originalmente por Kain:

Publicado originalmente por weeklongworld:

i have a intel core i3 4130 3.4ghz
4gb ddr3 ram
intel hd 4400 1gb

eeeeek

i guess we now know what the problem is.
your cpu should be just fine for this game. You definitly need a new gpu.

i was thinking of upgrading to a gtx 650 2gb

[Los.Injurus.Bob.Blunderton]

Publicado originalmente por weeklongworld:

Publicado originalmente por Kain:

eeeeek

i guess we now know what the problem is.
your cpu should be just fine for this game. You definitly need a new gpu.

i was thinking of upgrading to a gtx 650 2gb

Well it depends what you pay for it. Keep in mind you can snag a Geforce 1050 (non-ti) or a Radeon Rx 470 for a semi-reasonable price and you won't already be out of driver support (performance will get better in time with the cards I mentioned especially the Radeon with it's Dx12 performance being GREAT - and Vulcan performance - where the 650's performance due to driver optimisation for newer card, will get worse). Avoid the Radeon Rx 460 though!
A geforce 1050 Ti or 1060 is even better - but those prices especially for the 1060 land you in Rx 480 8gb territory especially considering the 480 is the better card when compared to the 1060 on new games. When it comes down to price, get what you can afford. Get what works for your PC's configuration (like, does it need plugs from the power supply etc).
Your CPU is fine. Your integrated video card is not really meeting the system requirements at all. They might run on 720p with lowest of low detail, but it won't be very consistent or smooth and mods will smother your frame rate and that's where Beam gets to be the most fun!
So snag a better video card (again, what you can afford!), and get some more memory - 4gb isn't enough - 8gb should really be the comfortable minimum on a gaming computer these days - 12~16gb is optimal, but not REQUIRED.
Again, the CPU will be fine for one or two vehicles. It'll get choppy with any more, but it's surely fine and far from the 1st thing needing upgrading, and will easily be able to power a nice video card and should support up to 32gb of ram provided you have a 4-RAM-slot motherboard. Refer to your system manual to see exactly what speed and capacity of memory is supported to avoid buying the wrong type, and also, make sure while you're at it, to pop open your PC's cover when it's off and look to see if you have any power connectors for video cards (6 or 8 pin) coming from the power supply that would reach where the video card will go. If it's a pre-bought PC it might not have any - if you buy a video card that needs external power from a 6 or 8 pin PCI-express power connector, it won't run without the proper power supply! Just something to keep in mind.