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Conor Barcoe

Conor Barcoe

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I want to know how much ram will effect my gameplay, I currently have 8gigs of ddr3 but I'm able to add another stick so if I got an extra 8 would there be a big difference performance wise, I tend to get between 30-40fps on high. Thanks

 
You will notice absolutely no difference...

The biggest change you can make to get better FPS is a better CPU but obviously that can be really expensive. 

 
dankdoge said:
I want to know how much ram will effect my gameplay, I currently have 8gigs of ddr3 but I'm able to add another stick so if I got an extra 8 would there be a big difference performance wise, I tend to get between 30-40fps on high. Thanks
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As @Mclovininin said - an extra 8gig of ram isnt going to effect gameplay much, if at all. It might run a little smoother but it'll hardly be noticable. Arma is CPU bound, so a better CPU/higher clock rate will do you more justice.

 
Thanks guys for the help, you saved me £40-50

 
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Actually you can get a performance increase, although only slight, it is noticeable. 

When having at least 12 gig of ram, you can disable your page file, this will stop writing ram to your HDD therefore recall is quicker and reading from disk as well. 

It is well worth doing imo. Especially if your on spinning rust. 

You can do the same with 8 but will most likley have issues due to too not enough memory.

I generally recommend that anybody with a ssd look at disabling their page file to increase lifespan. Ram is cheap. 

 
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lionel said:
Actually you can get a performance increase, although only slight, it is noticeable. 

When having at least 12 gig of ram, you can disable your page file, this will stop writing ram to your HDD therefore recall is quicker and reading from disk as well. 

It is well worth doing imo. Especially if your on spinning rust. 

You can do the same with 8 but will most likley have issues due to too not enough memory.

I generally recommend that anybody with a ssd look at disabling their page file to increase lifespan. Ram is cheap. 
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After reading this I went and checked out the about disabling the page file. I read a lot of conflicting information so I decided just to decrease it from 16GB to 1GB just to be on the safe side :)

 
Fraid that won't make any difference, either the traffic is there or it isn't 

Also decreasing your page file while not increasing ram will leave you susceptible out of memory errors, you should be ok with 8gig but it is close to the limit whilst gaming on arma. Close Firefox first ;)

I'm not saying doing this will turn any ol machine into a gaming monster, but if your trying to get the most of what you have this is a very good step. 

 
lionel said:
Fraid that won't make any difference, either the traffic is there or it isn't 

Also decreasing your page file while not increasing ram will leave you susceptible out of memory errors, you should be ok with 8gig but it is close to the limit whilst gaming on arma. Close Firefox first ;)

I'm not saying doing this will turn any ol machine into a gaming monster, but if your trying to get the most of what you have this is a very good step. 
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When I was looking into deleting the page file I read that setting it lower would prolong the life of my SSD. It was set at 16GB before I changed it and from what I understand windows had access to all my memory when writing the page file. I don't really understand it fully so like I said I took the advice from a thread in Tomshardware (I always read that site if I need advice or have pc problems) and some people said they deleted the file and had problems others said it was fine so I went with the advice most people were giving the OP of the thread which was just to lower it.

I've just upgraded parts of my pc (mobo and ram) and have been slowly adding new bits when I can afford it so it's not exactly high end but it's better than it was.

:)

 
Basically if your computer writes a chunk of data to ram, if it starts to run out of physical ram the os will then store it temporarily on the hard drive, as an extension of itself. Aka virtual ram. 

For a performance increase you would need to disable it completely, but yes the less you write to your ssd the longer life you can expect from it. HDD are not designed to be a replacement or extension of ram, it's not their designed function. 

 
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@lionel A friend was telling me the other day that I could use my memory to store files on, like a super fast hard drive. I know that I only really need 8GB (I bought two sticks of 8 as it worked out cheaper) for the stuff I use my pc for but I cant see what I could use the 8GB for. Theoretically if a pc had a spare 16GB ram stick could Windows be installed on it?

 
Yeah you could make a ram drive, but don't turn it off ;)

You can also get hardware solutions with offline storage and battery packs to save your data in the case of a power cut. Much better imo. But pricy. 

https://youtu.be/j4wJlg53hlQ

 
lionel said:
Yeah you could make a ram drive, but don't turn it off ;)

You can also get hardware solutions with offline storage and battery packs to save your data in the case of a power cut. Much better imo. But pricy. 

https://youtu.be/j4wJlg53hlQ
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There's a UPS on the server where I work. I could probably replace it with a shoebox painted black and the manager wouldn't notice. I am only half joking when I say that. He called me in one day because 'ZOMG the network has gone down!'. I had a little look, flipped the wall socket switch back on, told him to tell the cleaner not to touch any plugs near the server and went back home.

Just watched that benchmark video and I noticed that someone commented that they use a RAMdisk when rendering video and now I am intrigued. :)

 
lionel said:
Quite old now, not sure if any use anymore. 

http://www.acard.com/english/fb01-product.jsp?idno_no=270&prod_no=ANS-9010&type1_idno=5&ino=28
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Shame it only supports DDR2, it's like finding chickens teeth for sticks anything over 2GB. I know because until recently I only had 2x2GB and finding 4GB sticks that weren't a small fortune was impossible, except for cheap looking stuff on eBay and I didn't fancy getting that. It was cheaper to buy a new motherboard and 16GB of RAM.

I'm going to look into using RAMdisk for rendering video. The free-ware version only allows disks up to 1GB so if I like the results I'll probably buy it eventually.

 
For rendering video, you should just be able to scrub to ram, depending on the software your using and if you have enough.

They generally don't make them anymore due to the headway ssds have made, m.2 drives are freaking amazing, but tbh if you looking for processing storage, yeah your prolly better off with a ram drive and save your ssd. 

 
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