RAM usage very high

[Rondomondo]

Hi!
I have noticed, that the game consumes more than 24gb of Ram. I have installed only 32 GB, so after a while of playing I notice stutters from time to time, often for over 2 seconds.
And when I save and return to main menu, it takes very long and shows a grey screen with the mouse cursor barely moveable during that.
My game is completely unmodded, I haven´t ever installed a mod. I have all 3 dlcs.
I am quite new to rimworld and now I would like to ask, if it is a normal behavior to use so much ram or if this is just an issue that I have.

[Khan Boyzitbig of Mercia]

Rimworld rarely needs more than 2gb of RAM unless heavily modded or very late game so you might want to reinstall the game as something is corrupted for that to occur in vanilla.

[Rondomondo]

Ok, i try to verify the game files and reinstalling.
Thank´s for helping!

[Rondomondo]

Reinstalling and verifying the game files didn´t help. But I have noticed since I have sold a lot of animals it has become better. I am in that stage of the game where you can research the vital monitors for hospital-beds. The longer I play a session, the heavier becomes the RAM-Impact.

[The Blind One]

Do you by any chance have a MASSIVE colony?

Like give us the lowdown on your colony setup lol.

[Rondomondo]

No, just 12 pawns, I play with Phoebe Chillout and have set to peaceful. I am very new to this game and still learning.

[The Blind One]

There is absolutely no reason your ram usage should be that high then.

[Rondomondo]

Very weird, thank you for replying.

[Thanatos]

What mapsize you play on? And also next to the 12 pawns how many tames you have?
What can help a little bit is cleaning up the map of random stuff/items on the map like slag, dead bodies and stonechunks. It is indeed not normal, however I also experienced the same issues when I started.

[Rondomondo]

Mapsize 275x275, there are about 150 animals in the pens. Right at the start of playing the game uses the 2gb ram as mentioned above. Playing a few hours and the consumption gets bigger and bigger. I didn´t have a crash yet, but it worries me what could be wrong.

[Rondomondo]

..and 20 mechs, I have forgotten them,20 little mechs are also around.

[The Blind One]

You got a pretty big list of animals / mechs. That will definitely impact performance but probably shouldn't impact ram usage that much :/

this just sounds like a memory leak somewhere.

[Thanatos]

How about your globe coverage? is it 100%? furthermore maybe try spreading your animals across the map a bit could help. Also try using shelfs to store stuff and lessen the amount of stockpile zones if you use alot of zones to organize stuff. Last thing I can think of is that you just have to much stuff on the map, you mentioned playing in peacefull mode, my guess is you have more material,stuff and animals than your colony needs.

What you could try in your next playthrough is play with half the colony you currently have and see if you still experience the same issues.

[Rondomondo]

Yes, you are absolutely right! Globecoverage is 100% and I have so much stuff lying around, that 10 colonies could live from it. My base is spread out widely and I am aware that I could never defend it properly. There must be hundreds of flowers along the paths another hundreds of dandelions in the pens.....I have chosen a very easy landing place where nearly everything can grow and so my fields also cover a lot of space.
In my next colony I will try to be more economic. That was a good hint, thank you!

[The Blind One]

In my current vanilla-esque game (only running 100 QoL mods ) I have 125 animals, 13 colonists. I'm running at 2.1 gb of ram after 3 hours of gaming. 4 years in and strong hoarding tendencies.

It's been stable at around 2 gb of ram this whole time.

I can't imagine how you're getting to 10+ gb on a vanilla game.

P.S
Global coverage does barely anything in vanilla unless you're running mods like rim war. That's because world map mechanics are so incredibly minimalistic that they are essentially not even relevant, at worst it might be dragging you down by 1% in performance and ram cost. In other words, negligent.

[Rondomondo]

I thank you all for your answers. This is really a helpful community here. I am watching this issue further, should I ever find the culprit, I will tell you