WoW vs RAM

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Chainer

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Is it true that World of Warcraft requires lot of Ram to run nice?
Will I be able to play it using 512 ??
And 64 video card ???
Thx in advance
 
Chainer said:
Is it true that World of Warcraft requires lot of Ram to run nice?
Will I be able to play it using 512 ??
And 64 video card ???
Thx in advance
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that will work, but you will be laggy, any spells that you cast will lag your computer and when you log in and out it lags alot. You will laso get alot of menu lag.
 
Yes I'd imaging it will stress your system a bit, but it will run. Use lower settings and you should be ok.
 
well.. he said a 64Mb grafic's card.. as far as i know, those are all like goforce MX 440 - ish.. so they couldnt handle the game maxed out anyway :)
 
[-0MEGA-];524651 said:
800MB, wow! How did you figure that out, or are you just guessing?
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well i used a RAM estimator thing before and with only WoW and that running it estimated at just over 900mb, so it was kind of a guess (or Guesstimate), it still uses a hell of a lot though, my pc Lags to hell if i try and minimise whilst playing!
 
[-0MEGA-];524651 said:
800MB, wow! How did you figure that out, or are you just guessing?

Dark Messiah MM uses about 550-650MB of my 2GB.
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heh... when im playing my 1,5Gb is used for 95%.. so it uses 1,25Gb of my RAM when playing. its pretty simple.. the more RAM you give it, the more it will use.
 
here we go. i found it funny that it uses less memory in full screen mode but more CPU usage.

before game:
ram: 484 mb
PF: 374 mb
VM: 859 mb

game in window mode:
ram:928 mb
PF:811 mb
VM:1740 mb

game in fullscreen:
ram:904 mb
PF:723 mb
VM:1627 mb


here are the screen shots(look all the way to the right for the stats as its on the second monitor)


i am not playing the game here. its my background
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It depends how long you play for. Whenever you go into a new "area" it loads the environment onto your ram, and after you leave, it deletes it off your ram, but there are some stuff that gets left behind. So after about 3 hours of so, it will use up to 1gb of ram. You can run it on 512mb ram, you just have to restart the game every 2 hours or so so it doesn't start to use virtual ram.
 
Motoxrdude said:
It depends how long you play for. Whenever you go into a new "area" it loads the environment onto your ram, and after you leave, it deletes it off your ram, but there are some stuff that gets left behind. So after about 3 hours of so, it will use up to 1gb of ram. You can run it on 512mb ram, you just have to restart the game every 2 hours or so so it doesn't start to use virtual ram.
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well, me and Michelle were playing for about 9 hours last night... where's your logic now :P
 
Motoxrdude said:
It depends how long you play for. Whenever you go into a new "area" it loads the environment onto your ram, and after you leave, it deletes it off your ram, but there are some stuff that gets left behind. So after about 3 hours of so, it will use up to 1gb of ram. You can run it on 512mb ram, you just have to restart the game every 2 hours or so so it doesn't start to use virtual ram.
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you know that thats called a memory leak, no? :) and i can assure you, i havnt noticed that yet.. right at the start it uses that much memory already :o
 
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