I currently have 1GB RAM, with an A64 3700 processor and a BFG 7800 GT graphics card. I hear that an extra gig of ram can make a huge difference in some games - just wondering if this is one of them?
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Does 2gb RAM make a big difference?
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Interesting, I wonder if the game could actually use more than 1 Gb of RAM. I've got 2 and it loads fast but I dont know if only 1 gb less would change that. I know that in bf2 it does...(damn i hate that game now)
^Obviously I dont know how the computer uses ram but whatever..
^Obviously I dont know how the computer uses ram but whatever..
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I play with 2gb of ram myself... so far my game has run like a german warmachine!! I am not sure if it would run just as good with only 1 gb of ram but I know 2 gb will make your gaming life more enjoyable if you play more than one game!
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Erm... Any chance that one of you kind friendly people with 2 Gigs could take out a Gig and see if theres a noticable difference? 
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Im not willing to start digging around in my box to pull out ram, but ill tell you that Yes more Ram will make a difference. I gamed online for years with the usual amounts of ram 512, finially a gig, then 1.5gigs, now up to 3 (althogh someone told me recently that XPpro only supports up to 2 gigs ), Ive noticed a huge change with the increase in ram! Load times cut in half & im usually dancing around in a server while everyone else finially connects! More ram = goodness!
), Ive noticed a huge change with the increase in ram! Load times cut in half & im usually dancing around in a server while everyone else finially connects! More ram = goodness!
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Cowflab said:Im not willing to start digging around in my box to pull out ram, but ill tell you that Yes more Ram will make a difference. I gamed online for years with the usual amounts of ram 512, finially a gig, then 1.5gigs, now up to 3 (althogh someone told me recently that XPpro only supports up to 2 gigs
XP Pro will support up to 4 gigs of RAM, but each individual program can only address up to 2 gigs at any given time. I've got 2 right now, and I -need- the extra 2. That way I can have Lightwave 3D rendering with 2 gigs dedicated to it, and then still have juice left over for whatever else I want to do during that frigging long wait.
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For hungryhungry: 1GB is definately at the edge. May be enough if system (and ro.ini) is fully optimized, but usually all kind of useless crap is filling the memory. Take a look of free memory from system monitor after map is loaded and game is running. For me 1GB is fully used and I ordered more memory .
I noticed in mod that having RAID-0 disks made also noticeable difference for map loadings, but memory is more crucial.
.I noticed in mod that having RAID-0 disks made also noticeable difference for map loadings, but memory is more crucial.
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i only have 1 GB and im usualy one of the first on the map.
but i also have a raid0 array.
going from 512 to 1 GB makes a nice difference, everything you get over that and the differences become smaller and smaller pretty quickly.
but i also have a raid0 array.
going from 512 to 1 GB makes a nice difference, everything you get over that and the differences become smaller and smaller pretty quickly.
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Depends on all your background programs/services. If you have bloatware installed, or things running in the background you may be cutting it close. I have 1GB of ram and don't think RO itself uses more than 600 but I could be wrong.
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Whilst I'm really careful about installing anything that runs in the background, I monitored the free RAM available during a ROO load today, and it appears that 1 Gig is not enough for me. I watched the number drop and drop, until it bottomed out with less than 50mb free RAM. I think I'll look into getting some more
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Following the other posts re playing with the ini file I was able (on 1GB) to cut my load from about 3-5 minutes down to about 1 minute. Next I'll try Enditall or FSAutostart before playing to try and free up some more RAM as well. Hopefully that will give me a shot at some of the more exotic/specialist classes sometimes, without adding more RAM.
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Like I said - Im really careful about how i set up my system, following tweakguides.com etc, and with 1GB maps load in around 20-30 seconds. However, using Task Manager its clear that RO is using ALL of the RAM that is available to it, and so would make use of 2GB.
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just use task manager to find out how much RAM RO is taking up, for me, after start up of windows, we'll say 300 MB of RAM is already being used.
Steam uses about 20 MB, peak usage was 26 MB
RO uses about 483 MB, peak usage was around 485 MB
total memory being used w/ RO running for me is about 886 MB, but I have 2 GB of memory...so maybe if you have 1 gig, another 512 wouldn't hurt, but I don't think it's completely necessary.
Steam uses about 20 MB, peak usage was 26 MB
RO uses about 483 MB, peak usage was around 485 MB
total memory being used w/ RO running for me is about 886 MB, but I have 2 GB of memory...so maybe if you have 1 gig, another 512 wouldn't hurt, but I don't think it's completely necessary.
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You buy it. I'd recommend buying a recognised make too, cheaper stuff can be unreliable. Try www.crucial.com I've always found them to be very good.
512 -> 1 gig sees a halving of time taken to load, if that helps at all.
512 -> 1 gig sees a halving of time taken to load, if that helps at all.
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