Stop whining and moaning about system spec requirements.

[kimosabi]

Originally Posted by genbrien

The only think that I fear that could lower my perf with the game is my 4gb of ram. Tried to search for 4 more GB of the same Mushkin ram but it's discontinued....

And please people, if you buy a new system with a new OS, dont buy a *@&$*@$ 32bit...

If you're running that Q9550 @ >3.9gHz 24/7 I can pretty much guarantee you that another 4gb of ram will do your system good. I was lucky to find another set of 4gb of my discontinued G.Skills myself but they had a different heatspreader on them. Luckily the timings, speed and voltage were the same as my old ones so I pulled the trigger. Works like a charm. My experience was a much smoother gameplay and a few FPS extra. Flightsims dig ram IMO. But you have a 2gb graphics card though so you might not get the same increase as me.

[swiss]

Originally Posted by kimosabi

If you're running that Q9550 @ >3.9gHz 24/7 I can pretty much guarantee you that another 4gb of ram will do your system good. I was lucky to find another set of 4gb of my discontinued G.Skills myself but they had a different heatspreader on them. Luckily the timings, speed and voltage were the same as my old ones so I pulled the trigger. Works like a charm. My experience was a much smoother gameplay and a few FPS extra. Flightsims dig ram IMO. But you have a 2gb graphics card though so you might not get the same increase as me.

You got a few extra fps in IL2 thanks to the additional 4GB?

[kimosabi]

I'm sorry I forgot to mention but IL-2 didn't see much FPS increase besides the object rendering over cities etc. went smoother. RoF gained 2-5FPS as well, depending on the map and number of pilots. I'm @ 3.8-3.9gHz on my Q9550. So no, I don't think it was the RAM that got me the extra FPS but it gave my cpu some extra workspace and that's always a good thing when you have lots of tasks cluttering up in your memory on occation. Like when you're flying over a city etc.

[swiss]

Originally Posted by kimosabi

I'm sorry I forgot to mention but IL-2 didn't see much FPS increase besides the object rendering over cities etc. went smoother. RoF gained 2-5FPS as well, depending on the map and number of pilots. I'm @ 3.8-3.9gHz on my Q9550. So no, I don't think it was the RAM that got me the extra FPS but it gave my cpu some extra workspace and that's always a good thing when you have lots of tasks cluttering up in your memory on occation. Like when you're flying over a city etc.

Interesting, during play my system uses 2.5GB, and not even all the Ram of the GPU(~600MB of 800).

[kimosabi]

What operating system do you have and how many applications are you running? I'm on Vista x64 and over big cities like Berlin or Caen my system is up to the 4gb mark. Same in RoF.

[WhiteSnake]

Originally Posted by kimosabi

If you're running that Q9550 @ >3.9gHz 24/7 I can pretty much guarantee you that another 4gb of ram will do your system good. I was lucky to find another set of 4gb of my discontinued G.Skills myself but they had a different heatspreader on them. Luckily the timings, speed and voltage were the same as my old ones so I pulled the trigger. Works like a charm. My experience was a much smoother gameplay and a few FPS extra. Flightsims dig ram IMO. But you have a 2gb graphics card though so you might not get the same increase as me.

Theres no point in having more than 4GB if the game iswritten in 32 Bit... even if your OS is 64 Bit, the Game (or any other 32 Bit aplication) will still be restricted to using a Maximum of 2GB Memory Max.

Hopefully Oleg has made a 32 Bit and 64 Bit version, just like they done with Crysis and FarCry for example.

[kimosabi]

True, but the game isn't the only thing running. I have 55 applications running at one time usually and free memory when gaming is about 600mb. The rest is cached. When I ran 4gb I had almost no free memory, everything was cached.

[swiss]

Originally Posted by kimosabi

True, but the game isn't the only thing running. I have 55 applications running at one time usually and free memory when gaming is about 600mb. The rest is cached. When I ran 4gb I had almost no free memory, everything was cached.

W7ux64, 65apps.

You probably have some BS running in the background.

I will check on the Berlin map 'tho.

[kimosabi]

Doesn't matter, swiss. You're on 7, not comparable to Vista's resource management, or hogging, at all. But hey, install another 4gb and fly an object rendering intensive mission and see for yourself. That's the only way to know for sure. Whatever you say in this thread, I'm not gonna remove 4gb of ram because I know the differences it made to my system. LOL

Keep on truckin'.

[major_setback]

I'm sorry if this has been asked before, but what are the system specifications?

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