16GB RAM Isn't Enough

[Unfriendly Fire]

PSA, yo.

I bought it yesterday, started crashing in Hogwarts upon first arrival.

My PC is godly but I never got around to upgrading past the stock 16gb RAM it came with. Slapped another 16GB stick in this bad boy and no issues yet. 60 fps, no stutters, slowdowns, nothing of the like.

16GB is the bare minimum and if you're running anything else that'll hog even a tiny bit of RAM in the background..well, be warned. I've seen the game eat up to 24gb of RAM in some scenes. 32GB or bust for this game.

Might as well be time for all of us PC gamers to start considering 64gb the new standard.

[Darkrayne]

Sounds like you've just put 1 stick in, to make it 3 or that it only had 1 in to begin with and you now have 2.

Either way, not good. If you only had one 16gb stick in to begin with or you had 2 sticks but they were both on the same channel (slotted right next to each other with 2 empty slots next to each other), that would explain why you were crashing.

Might just be your wording though. If you've just added 16gb to dual-channel memory, you should be putting in two 8GB sticks, one in each channel.

[Sonrangeri]

If recommended specs ask 16GB, then game should work with that. Hell, you have more than 16GB with your Vram and Normal RAM combined, which should be more than enough, especially when PS5 version can run 4k with 16GB SHARED ram.

[FreddieTheGreat]

16GB is not bare minimum.
8GB is bare minimum. 16GB is recommended.
You should be able to run the game just fine on 16gb.

The issue is on Hogwarts Legacys side. As for me, it uses 1% of my gpu, Nvidia container uses 12% & 96-100% of my RAM is being used. Which is not normal.
When they recommend 16GB it's not like the game just straight up eats 16GB of ram. Thats not how it works. It will vary in usage & rarely if ever even go near 16GB. I've played far more resource intensive game than this. This just requires a performance patch.

[Rituximab]

My game runs smoothly with 16GBs.

[Azra'il]

16gb of ram is plenty, it's just the ram speeds (for me anyway).
I was running on default ram speeds, realized during troubleshooting when comparing to a near idential computer that on this one, I wasn't sure if I had setup my ram's XMP profile and voila... it was that. From 2000~ or whatever to 3600 ram speeds took my jittering gameplay (on medium and other downgrades) to High and perfectly smooth.

TLDR: Don't underestimate ram speeds.

[parent child bowl]

Do you use a low VRAM NVIDIA GPU?

[Deathraven13]

Originally posted by Honibear:

My game runs smoothly with 16GBs.

My game run smoothly with 8GBs RAM.

[Trilled Meow]

I don't think that's the real issue here. My computer is like 10 years old and past due to be rebuilt. I don't care for many triple-A new releases, but the important thing is that it managed to run this. But in any case, while performance isn't ideal, I have never had a crash in this game, either. So I would think it's something else other than amount of RAM causing it. I have like 8 gigs of RAM.

[Bouteille]

My game is fine with 16gb, my ram is a 14,5-15gb at the start and drop after a moment to 12gb

[StarPooper]

Mine runs fine with 16gb. Not sure why yours wasn't working.

[Pedigru]

I have a decent system. 16gb RAM is not enough to run the game. I had to switch on automation of virtual memory...let windows manage the pagefile to play this game. My pagefile went from 3-6gb to...a whopping 45gb pagefile. NO GAME should EVER even need a pagefile. It should run in RAM all alone.

[Silberstern]

I have 16gb Ram, and it runs perfect on high settings

[hehe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEppw0jCrhE


Yep, way more stuttering with 16GB compared to 32GB, Dogsht PC port. People who says it runs smoothly dont know what smooth gameplay actually is lmao.

[fox]

Asking gamers to buy more ram is like pulling teeth.

[Darkrayne]

Originally posted by hehe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEppw0jCrhE


Yep, way more stuttering with 16GB compared to 32GB, Dogsht PC port. People who says it runs smoothly dont know what smooth gameplay actually is lmao.

Things are different when doing close to Quad HD or 4K in Ultra. Obviously that can benefit from more RAM capacity.

OP was talking about crashing anyway, not performance.