RAM Lower performance????

petri1 · Sep 10, 2004, 02:44 PM

Does my 512mb of ram lower gaming performance IE FPS?

i thought taht since i seldom have over 300mb freeram it has to have an imnpact on gaming benching and so on coz the appz need ram and if there is little to use maybe they show less score stutter more and so on????

CrimsonKnight13 · Sep 10, 2004, 09:16 PM

You might want anywhere from 784MB to 1GB of memory since you have a high amount of memory usage without running a game.

Judas · Sep 10, 2004, 10:18 PM

....depending on the game... 512 is starting to show some lower preformance results.... i myself have learned that while running 1gb.... i wasn't aware of 512mb being so slow.. (currently running 512)

big difference in FPS and overall system preformance.. BIG time

GutterPunk · Sep 11, 2004, 01:20 PM

going from 512 to 1024 i jumped 10 fps w/ overall smoother gameplay... that was also going from pc2100 to 3200

petri1 · Sep 11, 2004, 03:22 PM

i have 2*256mb dual kit twinmos so putting in another 1024 corsait value matched 2*512mb shold give real smooth gameplay

mrQQ · Sep 22, 2004, 10:57 AM

ram itself doesnt affect fps.. if you run out of ram, then you'll notice jerky gameplay, cause your pc will be flushing oldest memory to swap file.. but then it will be back to normal.. for longer or shorter period

Shinjikun · Sep 22, 2004, 11:08 AM

For any PC 'gamer' I recommend at least 1 GB of ram now for good gameplay. Going from 512 MB of ram to 1 GB for me was a huge difference in every game that has come out this year so far. This has been the year where the bar has been raised to 1 GB for optimum performance in today's games.