Any problems with 1 Mb RAM?
 

Anybody running the game with the minimum of 1 Mb of RAM? Any issues or problems encountered?

1 meg? :huh:

Assuming you mean 1 GIG, then it would depend on other factors such as video card and processor. As a rule though, SH4 really needs 2 GIGs of RAM to perform at the highest graphical settings.

Seriously, this game is a RESOURCE hog! Especially if you intend to run most if not all of these wonderful mods. 1 GB is just simply not enough for most games nowdays most importantly SH4. Go over to www.newegg.com and see what you can pick up, generally you can find memory deals that are astounding, and most of all, if you have a decent system and decent video card then don't go cheap by trying to skimp by on only 1 gig of RAM. Hope you find this helpful and Newegg is just my personal favorite so I'm not trying to sell you on them or anything....:D

Yes, I meant 1 GB. Woops. :oops:

Hold on....

I'm doing great with 1 gig of ram. And only a P4 2.4 Ghz cpu.

My savior may be my X1950 Pro video card, but it still means 1 gig of ram is okay.

I have all my settings cranked to max, at 1680x1050. I get 50 fps interiors, and 30 outside, which is more than fine.

I was just wondering because I have 1 Gb RAM, and I have long load times, and when I quit the game, it takes about 45 seconds to 1 minute before my desktop comes into view. I don't know why this happens.

In game, I get a few stutters, and it takes a few seconds to switch from the interior of the submarine to the bridge for example. I was wondering if my low RAM specs were mostly reponsible for these things.

BTW, I have a GeForce 6800 with 256, and P4 2.4 cpu.

I have only 1GB ram (actually 1024MB) and P4 3.4Ghz with Nvidia 8800GTS 320MB card, runs very smoothly.

With 2 gb of ram it takes a second for the desktop to reappear, the load times are better and the switching between stations is instantaneous.

While playing in the career, SH4 uses 1.3 gb of ram. So 1 gb of physical ram is not enough. Windows has to seriously use the swap file.

Sea Demon, in terms of your slow loading times, and what I call "Ram unloading" while you wait for the desktop to return, yes, that's directly and specifically related to the RAM. More Ram would speed that up.

But specifically to playing SH4, I do fine with 1 gig. Maerean_m's post above maybe correct about the 1.3 G Ram, but my game does play fine. It takes me a moment as well to go from inside to outside while the exterior textures load, but it's not a game killer for me.

And lets not forget fellas, XP is a resource hog as well, 2GB over 1MB is cheapest way to upgrade your box an see an instant performance increase. :arrgh!:

Its the graphis card that runs the game . The other stuff helps .

I ran it with 1 gig without issue. When I added the second gig I notice a switch from station to station was much faster. The magnifying of the navigation map was much quicker in both directions. I can TC now up to highest and it is still smooth. It does help with game play.

what will also help the game in running
 

Is if you match up your virtual memeory manualy to the same as your physicle memory.

So if you have 2gb physicle set the virtual to 2gig's as well.

This game slowly eat's it all up especialy if your window's program dosn;t make the ram release on it's own. So little by little it will slow down over time playing it.

This is a big generalization that varies widely from game to game.

Some games are VPU heavy, some games are CPU heavy.

SH4 is a bit of both. The reason that the game stutters during TC, is because of all the CPU processing of all the entities on the game world. At that time there's ZERO drain on your video card.

Like AVG stated, RAM helps enormously during CPU heavy cycles, like TC.