Crysis Framerate Benches with 2gb vs 4gb ram?

[[EOCF] Tim]

Why all the talk and no benchies? Run the benchmark, Rip out two sticks, run the benchmarks again, and take a note of loading times. Done.

I can't do it right now, because I only have 2Gb.

[Crow_Nest]

I just upgraded to 3GBs of RAM today, upgraded from 1GB. And i didnt notice any difference in framerate. But the loading times are slightly faster, and there is a lot less stuttering in the game. Which feels almost like a dream come true.

[Armed_Baboon]

If your motherboard supports memory hole remapping, you can have all 4GB of ram with a 32bit OS. google it.

[Darkoz]

Originally Posted by Armed_Baboon

If your motherboard supports memory hole remapping, you can have all 4GB of ram with a 32bit OS. google it.

It's a 32bit operating system limitation not a hardware one, a 32bit Os will not utilize all 4GB of RAM.

[[EOCF] Tim]

Originally Posted by Darkoz

It's a 32bit operating system limitation not a hardware one, a 32bit Os will not utilize all 4GB of RAM.

Precisely, you cannot have the full 4Gb in any 32bit OS environment, maybe it will show up in Computer properties or whatever, but it can't use the full 4Gig.

[Gaco]

I'm thinking about upgrading from 2gb to 4gb very soon. I'll run a bench with FRAPS enabled if I do

[FastRedPonyCar]

Video Ram > System Ram

[fps_dean]

Originally Posted by CaptNKILL

Yeah.

Think of it in terms of average FPS.

If the benchmark records 30-40fps 10 times per second for a few minutes then averages the results together, a few drops to 1-5 fps (a hitch\stutter) will hardly make any difference in the final average but will be very obvious in gameplay.

About the only way to show the results of a memory upgrade would probably be a line graph like [H] uses, to show the framerate throughout the entire benchmark. Ideally, more memory would result in fewer low spikes on a graph.

Fraps can record data like that. It probably wouldn't be too hard to do.

I'm trying to find more info on 2gb vs 4gb. What I've actually been finding is that 4gb performance is almost all in people's head, but still not done researching yet...

4gb RAM is much harder to overclock and you can get RAM at higher speeds and lower latency in a 2x1 configuration than 2x2. Check this out which places a 2gb of faster RAM vs 4gb of slightly slower RAM. Even without overclocking, 4gb gets a slightly better max framerate which results in a slightly higher average, but 2gb of faster RAM provides a marginally higher mininmum which will translate to less choppy gameplay which you will notice more than the extra .5 average fps.

[AngelGraves13]

If you really wanna be brave.

8 GB RAM and tun off the paging file. Big difference. x64 only of course. Less writing and reading to the drive without the paging file.

[ASUSEN7900GTX]

isn´t turning off the paging file like sending vista to oblivion i mean does it work properly afther that and how to tunr it off?

Originally Posted by AngelGraves13

If you really wanna be brave.

8 GB RAM and tun off the paging file. Big difference. x64 only of course. Less writing and reading to the drive without the paging file.

I've heard it works well with 4Gb also, which I'll find out next week (x64).

[AthlonXP1800]

Originally Posted by fps_dean

I'm trying to find more info on 2gb vs 4gb. What I've actually been finding is that 4gb performance is almost all in people's head, but still not done researching yet...

4gb RAM is much harder to overclock and you can get RAM at higher speeds and lower latency in a 2x1 configuration than 2x2. Check this out which places a 2gb of faster RAM vs 4gb of slightly slower RAM. Even without overclocking, 4gb gets a slightly better max framerate which results in a slightly higher average, but 2gb of faster RAM provides a marginally higher mininmum which will translate to less choppy gameplay which you will notice more than the extra .5 average fps.

4GB RAM much harder to overclock? That a load of nonsense. My friend used 4GB 800MHz DDR2 OCZ Platinum, it very easy to overclock his Q6600 to 3.6GHz through Vista x64 with BIOS settings set to Auto.