BEWARE: For Those With 8GB Ram

[Deadeye]

This game will eat up ram like crazy. Before I installed this game, I had 1.1 ram in use. Now it's 3.5 in use. Hitman 2016 didn't used up this much ram, as this this one does. So if you only 8gb ram. Beware of the usage.

[Deadeye]

I upgraded to 16gb. That should be enough for this game right? This is the first time I ever had to upgrade my ram just for a video game. it's different to upgrade the gpu or sometimes the cpu to make the game to run smoother. But for my 8gb ram that I have used playing Far Cry 5,PUBG ,Mafia 3, Sniper Elite 4 and Hitman 2016 never ate up as much ram as Hitman 2 did. I check if I was dealing with memory leaks or memory errors, couldn't fine any of those issues. It just that this game eats up more ram then google chrome with multiable windows open.

[TommyEV]

Originally posted by Deadeye:

I upgraded to 16gb. That should be enough for this game right? This is the first time I ever had to upgrade my ram just for a video game. it's different to upgrade the gpu or sometimes the cpu to make the game to run smoother. But for my 8gb ram that I have used playing Far Cry 5,PUBG ,Mafia 3, Sniper Elite 4 and Hitman 2016 never ate up as much ram as Hitman 2 did. I check if I was dealing with memory leaks or memory errors, couldn't fine any of those issues. It just that this game eats up more ram then google chrome with multiable windows open.

16 gb won't do you any harm. It's the real standard for gaming nowadays. Hopefully the game works better for you now.

[racist]

Originally posted by TommyEV:

Originally posted by Deadeye:

I upgraded to 16gb. That should be enough for this game right? This is the first time I ever had to upgrade my ram just for a video game. it's different to upgrade the gpu or sometimes the cpu to make the game to run smoother. But for my 8gb ram that I have used playing Far Cry 5,PUBG ,Mafia 3, Sniper Elite 4 and Hitman 2016 never ate up as much ram as Hitman 2 did. I check if I was dealing with memory leaks or memory errors, couldn't fine any of those issues. It just that this game eats up more ram then google chrome with multiable windows open.

16 gb won't do you any harm. It's the real standard for gaming nowadays. Hopefully the game works better for you now.

It's not the "real standard", it's overkill for any game except Hitman 2. Even the latest AC games don't need 16gb of ram.

[TommyEV]

Originally posted by racist:

Originally posted by TommyEV:

16 gb won't do you any harm. It's the real standard for gaming nowadays. Hopefully the game works better for you now.

It's not the "real standard", it's overkill for any game except Hitman 2. Even the latest AC games don't need 16gb of ram.

That doesn't mean it isn't the standard.

[Wolfmann Mike]

Originally posted by 4cylinder:

Can confirm, I'm on vacation and staying with my folks so I'm forced to use my old PC from college which has 8GB of RAM, a Core i5 2320 sandy bridge, and a 2GB GTX1050 Mini. I have to run the game at 1600x900 on lowest settings to get a playable framerate.

Youtube videos show the GTX1050 should be capable of better visuals than this... except those Youtubers are running on 16GB of RAM!

Oh well, when my vacation is up I'll be heading back to my place and will be able to play on my much newer main rig with its GTX1070 and 16GB RAM :)

A GTX 1070 is the Desktop model, you're on a GTX 1070M, not the Desktop model. and yes, xcheck Minimum Requirements to see if you can run on "High" or better settings.

[Wolfmann Mike]

Originally posted by Deadeye:

It just that this game eats up more ram then google chrome with multiable windows open.

ROFL... Oh RLY 0.o? Chrome with Multiple windows open?

[Erebus]

Originally posted by DeMountain:

People saying the issue is other people systems must be baiting, if you consider that it is normal for a game to use over 17 GB of RAM (yes, it uses this much on my PC), then sorry, but you are retarded.

RAM exists to be used. It's better than long ass loads and constantly waiting on the HDD.

Originally posted by Yash:

I have only 8GB RAM (single stick) and GTX 1060 6GB paired with i5 8400. So any chance my PC will run this on medium/high settings at 60 fps at 1080p??

Single stick configurations will never give good performance in anything "heavy". Ever.

[Erebus]

Originally posted by racist:

Originally posted by TommyEV:

16 gb won't do you any harm. It's the real standard for gaming nowadays. Hopefully the game works better for you now.

It's not the "real standard", it's overkill for any game except Hitman 2. Even the latest AC games don't need 16gb of ram.

Mate, people have been crying about stuttering in games with 8GB of RAM since ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ 2015. Only some of them wise up and fix the problem... "magically" getting better performance.

[js51472]

Just Cause 3 was the first game I got that just wouldn't stop stuttering, even on low settings, on 8GB of ram. The only solution I found for that game was 16GB of ram, though that didn't completely stop the stuttering, it just significantly reduced it.

[TooooooooBad]

16GB RAM has been the recommended RAM for a LONG time in gaming PC culture. sooo yes it IS the standard. And anything more than 16gb is overkill and pointless at this time. Maybe in the future game will requiere 32gb, but right now 16gb is the standard since a few years already.

simply follow Gaming PC building community and you understand why it is soo important. Do yourself a service and buy those last 1x8 (or 2x4) stick of RAM. Those are cheap and you can keep them in the future unless you still on DDR3
(+ RAM work better in dual slot, dont run a single stick)

[Blizz°]

In general Nvidia has exponentially higher system ram usage than AMD

[Vito Baccaliere]

8 gb of ram, 1060 3gb, g4600. This game runs smooth as it can be.

[NECROCANNIBAL]

Well...No i guess ?
8 gb ram 3000 dual channel with Ryzen CPU. Works great on high settings with 60 fps.

[PanicButton]

I'm pretty sure the speed of your RAM and disk also matters. If you only have 8GB abailable, but your system can swap it fast you won't get the FPS drops.

I have old 2x4GB DDR3 sticks running at 1600MHz with a veteran HDD (fragmented as hell...no maintenance performed for 2+ years).

I found my old 2GB sticks, and put them in. Now I have 12GB total, and the game runs smooth.

I can 100% confirm that my lack of RAM caused my issues!

[Erebus]

Originally posted by PanicButton:

I'm pretty sure the speed of your RAM and disk also matters. If you only have 8GB abailable, but your system can swap it fast you won't get the FPS drops.

I have old 2x4GB DDR3 sticks running at 1600MHz with a veteran HDD (fragmented as hell...no maintenance performed for 2+ years).

I found my old 2GB sticks, and put them in. Now I have 12GB total, and the game runs smooth.

I can 100% confirm that my lack of RAM caused my issues!

Speed definitely can impact, can have huge effects on minimum framerates in particular. Too low of capacity, bandwidth, and speed... means your CPU is going to be spending most of its time waiting on data or moving data around rather than doing work.

Originally posted by Blizz°:

In general Nvidia has exponentially higher system ram usage than AMD

Nvidia offloads more work to the driver. Plus people needa remember VRAM is going to be mirrored to the system RAM in many cases, and anything exceeding physical VRAM capacity will have a "overflow" effect and be pushed over pcie to the system RAM to avoid crashing out.

Basically always want a healthy amount of sys RAM and VRAM, else you can get this cascading cluster ♥♥♥♥ which eats performance... and lord help you if you have to dip into paging to avoid out of memory errors cause then it's gonna be a cinematic slideshow.