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I'm surprised about the video RAM if I'm honest. Such stats are useful to me as a scenery developer, I can see I have to be more careful

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I'm using 32GB as well, I don't find it a limiting factor (Unless you have 8GB or less). Video RAM, yes absolutely

 

With the extended scenery they were recommending as much ram as possible. 16 seemed logical, but I wanted a bit more futureproofing. So..... 32 it is.

 

Even though I suspect it's massive overkill.


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How much RAM is too much RAM? I don't think you can have too much, I have 64GB, that will probably be a drop in the bucket a couple of years from now. Remember when 4kbytes was enough to go to the moon. :-)

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With the extended scenery they were recommending as much ram as possible. 16 seemed logical, but I wanted a bit more futureproofing. So..... 32 it is.

 

Even though I suspect it's massive overkill.

 

It's not overkill if you use the UHD terrain mesh. In XP10, 16 GB was recommended as the minimum for UHD mesh, and 32 GB was recommended if using the (then) optional extended .dsf scenery loading. Now that extended .dsf is a default feature and can't be turned off, that makes 32 GB pretty much a requirement for the UHD scenery and having enough overhead. The lower-res HD terrain mesh still only needs 16 GB, I think. 

 

And yeah, there's no such thing as too much RAM, just for overall system stability if nothing else. My current box can take up to 64 GB but I won't upgrade until it seems necessary. We're just at the start of the XP11 run. There's no telling what will come along in RAM-hungry scenery, aircraft, or weather effects (pretty please!) in the next few years.


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There's no telling what will come along in RAM-hungry scenery, aircraft, or weather effects (pretty please!) in the next few years.

 

I made sure i had room for another 32gb for my rig but if that gets filled, I guess I'll have to just download more ram!  :Big Grin:


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