Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Good enough CPU, and video card. RAM not quite enough. What should I expect?

Talking specifically about Dragon Age: Origins. My CPU is 2.4 dual core, Video card is 1024mb but I have 2 GB Ram, which is in between the 1.5 required and the 3.0 recommended. What sort of things will this affect in game performance? Will it run smooth on a lesser setting?|||For starters, saying that your video card has 1GB means diddly squat. It could be a low end piece of crap or a high end powerhouse and have 1GB of RAM.



Second, 2GB doesn't quite cut the mustard, especially if you're running Vista or Windows 7. It'll run, but don't expect great things. 4GB of RAM is the sweet spot for gaming these days.



SEAN, if you think that Readyboost is even remotely close to physical RAM then I have a bridge to sell you. It's only slightly better than virtual memory on your hard drive, which is a completely piss-poor substitute for real RAM.|||it should be fine as long as your within the parameters set. However this is the minimum recommended most likely which can and will be affected by background progams such as your anti virus etc. go to canurunit by sytemrequirementslab to find out where you may need to improve. Click on the recommended tab to see that. Just click the dropdown menu and scroll to the dragon age version you are attempting to play.|||ugh. usually the minimum required is what allows something to run, it will look horrible but run. dunno about that game, but usually I'd have to tweak the setting waaay down for newer games. I just hope you aren't running vista.|||Simple, buy a cheap pen drive, 4gb. Put it into the usb, type ready boost into the start search box, apply and you now have an extra 4gb of ram. Daw.|||2gigs will probably be enough. i don't think an extra gig will help much, but if anything, it may slightly speed up how fast your game loads. that's about it.

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