StrayWolf Posted April 27, 2011 Posted April 27, 2011 I have a question - would increasing the RAM to 8GB provide ANY benefit to A-10C? Right now I have 4GB and its running fantastic, but I was wondering whether increasing RAM would permit the sim to fly better - increased texture loads, etc etc. Any ideas/opinions? Windows 10 Pro | i5-8600K | MSI Tomahawk Z370 | 48GB DDR4-3000 A-DATA (LED) | EVGA Superclocked 2 GTX 1080 8GB DDR5 | 256GB M.2 NVe A-DATA | 512GB M.2 NVe A-DATA | HP Omen 32" 2560x1440 | Thrustmaster Warthog, CH Pedals Oculus Rift S VR
rextar Posted April 27, 2011 Posted April 27, 2011 Hi well I have 3 gb of ram and getting 50-70 FPS Still stutters slightly, I'm on the same boat and looking to get 8gb Not sure how much this will affect a-10 ?? Intel i5 3.2 ghz 8 GB crucial ram gtx 660 superclocked 2gb 500watt corsair psu win7 64bit extreme pro track ir5 Turtle beach x12
asparagin Posted April 27, 2011 Posted April 27, 2011 Your Win X64 must feel neglected when you "only" got 4 GB ;) Spoiler AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, MSI MEG X570 UNIFY (AM4, AMD X570, ATX), Noctua NH-DH14, EVGA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti XC3 ULTRA, Seasonic Focus PX (850W), Kingston HyperX 240GB, Samsung 970 EVO Plus (1000GB, M.2 2280), 32GB G.Skill Trident Z Neo DDR4-3600 DIMM CL16, Cooler Master 932 HAF, Samsung Odyssey G5; 34", Win 10 X64 Pro, Track IR, TM Warthog, TM MFDs, Saitek Pro Flight Rudders
sobek Posted April 27, 2011 Posted April 27, 2011 FPS wise, you probably won't see any difference. Good, fast, cheap. Choose any two. Come let's eat grandpa! Use punctuation, save lives!
Teriander Posted April 27, 2011 Posted April 27, 2011 Adding more ram can help when it comes to loading and unloading memory. The only time you will you see stuttering is when it must unload data such as scenery or objects. But if you have enough RAM, the better the chances of the game LOADing the data, then unload unused data in the background. This is why people with more RAM wont notice the stuttering. Its also useful if you run a lot of applications in the background. If you have enough RAM, you can play the game, run skype, browsers, and tons of other applications with no problem. I have 12gigs and will soon get 24. Im a 3D Artist and need the ram!
Frederf Posted April 27, 2011 Posted April 27, 2011 I had some RAM problems a while back and was down to 3GB or so temporarily from 6GB. I had severe FPS problems with less amounts of RAM.
vortex360 Posted April 28, 2011 Posted April 28, 2011 If your 4 gigs aren't bottoming out then you won't see any difference.
StrayWolf Posted April 28, 2011 Author Posted April 28, 2011 Thanks for the replies. Yes, as I expected 4GB appears to be OK for the sim. Even with Firefox and Foxit (Adobe PDF replacement) running in the background, my box does not consume more than 3GB with A-10C running. I've actually never seen the 4GBs used. I am sure that there might be some additional benefits of adding additional RAM but I don't think that it would increase FPS. Right now its pretty much stable around 70-90fps with everything maxed out. When it does dip, never goes below 40fps from what I have observed. :thumbup: Windows 10 Pro | i5-8600K | MSI Tomahawk Z370 | 48GB DDR4-3000 A-DATA (LED) | EVGA Superclocked 2 GTX 1080 8GB DDR5 | 256GB M.2 NVe A-DATA | 512GB M.2 NVe A-DATA | HP Omen 32" 2560x1440 | Thrustmaster Warthog, CH Pedals Oculus Rift S VR
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