4gb enough for gaming?

[HURRIC4NE]

4 gigs is enough, but its risky, you never know what type of stuff comes up.. 8 gigs is the way to go..

 

[Psyside]

I leave my Win7 VM running for weeks at a time and the performance stays the same. If that's not the case for you then you have some bad piece of software causing your issues, not Windows itself.

Ye, if you keep your pc doing nothing sure, try to surf, watching youtube and other regular stuff and check again.

 

[Nothinman]

Ye, if you keep your pc doing nothing sure, try to surf, watching youtube and other regular stuff and check again.

My PC does a lot more than nothing. Our ticketing, invoicing, etc app is a hog, I routinely leave IE, FF, SSMS 2005, VS.Net 2005, Excel, Outlook, Exchange 2010 Management Console and others running for weeks or months at a time. I really doubt adding a youtube video here or there will change much.

 

[Psyside]

K.

 

[gmaster456]

A 32 player game on BC2 only used around 8-900mb of RAM of that gives you any idea.

 

[Smoblikat]

I would consider 8GB as with 4GB I would experience some hard drive thrashing after shutting down a game. This would cause my system to slow way down and take longer to open up programs.

After I upgraded I have none of these problems.

or unless you got 16gb DDR3 2133 CL9 for 100$..............

 

[Psyside]

Whatz up, told you so?

"Initially we began testing with just 8GB of system memory in the review system. After a significant amount of gameplay, we were noticing that 8GB of memory may not provide enough space for the game. We were experiencing memory being swapped out to the hard drive in virtual memory, meaning we were exceeding 8GB of RAM and this was affecting our smoothness and performance"

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2013/10/10/battlefield_4_beta_performance_preview/4

 

[KingFatty]

Whatz up, told you so?

"Initially we began testing with just 8GB of system memory in the review system. After a significant amount of gameplay, we were noticing that 8GB of memory may not provide enough space for the game. We were experiencing memory being swapped out to the hard drive in virtual memory, meaning we were exceeding 8GB of RAM and this was affecting our smoothness and performance"

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2013/10/10/battlefield_4_beta_performance_preview/4

Hmm, they say more testing needs to be done, and it's just weird how the memory usage kept increasing over time. That suggests to me that it may be a memory leak, seeing how the game is still beta?

I mean, they literally say, that even with 16 GB of ram, that:

after several hours of gaming, that the RAM will be pegged through the roof,

So you get 8 GB, it won't be enough, and you get 16 GB, it still won't be enough. That just seems like a bug/memory leak, and not the intended behavior of any game.