Just got another 16GB (2x8GB) to bring me to 32GB of DDR4 3200. 

At $58 prime on Amazon for a set of g.skill ripjaws (what I already had) shipped to my door by Saturday, there's really no reason to fight with 16GB. I was thinking upgrading would be around $120 but the prices have apparently dropped a ton. 

If you were thinking it'd be too expensive to do right now, maybe revisit. 

Edited August 20, 20205 yr by bonchie

Agreed. It's just that up until this week, there was no reason to have 32GB. 😉

 

(Okay, I know that for video editing, music composition and other such tasks, some may need 128GB. But I just recently went from 3GB usable to 16GB, and I'm happy.)

Do you have evidence that MSFS 2020 performs better with 32 gigs of ram compared to 16?

Another question --

Is there any evidence it performs better with 64GB?  ...this assuming the gpu isn't capped out,

Brian

 

34 minutes ago, bonchie said:

Just got another 16GB (2x8GB) to bring me to 32GB of DDR4 3200. 

At $58 prime on Amazon for a set of g.skill ripjaws (what I already had) shipped to my door by Saturday, there's really no reason to fight with 16GB. I was thinking upgrading would be around $120 but the prices have apparently dropped a ton. 

If you were thinking it'd be too expensive to do right now, maybe revisit. 

Same brand of 32GB DDR4 3600 going into my new system as we speak for $119 (Microcenter).  Wonder if the memory pricing will ease the GPU prices for the 3000's.

Edited August 20, 20205 yr by fppilot

FWIW my MSFS RAM usage fluctuates between 10GB and 20GB, so the upgrade from 16 to 32 is being used.

I previously had 16gb RAM and just upgraded to 32gb before this game released.  My task manager consistently shows MSFS using 15gb or more.  Very glad I upgraded, this sim very much needs 32gb.

Taking it a step further and buying a whole new rig with as much RAM as it and the new ampere cards will hold 🙂

23 minutes ago, fppilot said:

Same brand of 32GB DDR4 3600 going into my new system as we speak for $119 (Microcenter).  Wonder if the memory pricing will ease the GPU prices for the 3000's.

I've always had good luck with g.skill. Cheap and they run what they are advertised at. I OC my CPU pretty extensively (my 8600K is at 4.8ghz on air) and they do fine there as well.

45 minutes ago, SeanMo said:

Agreed. It's just that up until this week, there was no reason to have 32GB. 😉

 

(Okay, I know that for video editing, music composition and other such tasks, some may need 128GB. But I just recently went from 3GB usable to 16GB, and I'm happy.)

XP11 will happily eat up over 16GB of RAM. P3D probably never gets that high but I never checked.

48 minutes ago, Ricardo41 said:

Do you have evidence that MSFS 2020 performs better with 32 gigs of ram compared to 16?

Yes, it's RAM hungry...    This is just at KPHL with a simple aircraft.. Max settings all around..

I9 9900k @ 4.7 (all cores) / 32gb Gskill / 2080Ti / 1440p

 

Edited August 20, 20205 yr by styckx

I was in the Alpha, but forget to do this test (I don't bought the sim, yet).

I dont' know if performance gain is enought by the money (RAM is getting cheaper, take a look next months).

But if anyone with 64GB or 32GB can do a test without removing any slot, you can do it natively under Windows:

msconfig -> Boot -> Advanced options -> Maximum memory (in megabytes)

8192=8GB

16384=16GB

32768=32GB

Look for "msconfig ram limiting" at Google for references.

Edited August 20, 20205 yr by zalox

I just installed the other 2 16gb sticks, but it rarely goes over 16 for now.

I'd like to see a side by side comparison of running the sim with 16 gig compared to 32 gig. Does performance significantly improve as you go from 16 to 32?

2 minutes ago, Ricardo41 said:

I'd like to see a side by side comparison of running the sim with 16 gig compared to 32 gig. Does performance significantly improve as you go from 16 to 32?

I don't think it's going to improve performance unless it becomes the bottleneck, which it should in heavily populated areas if you are running really high settings.

If this thing is already eating up 16GB, it's probably bottlenecking at some point. Others are showing well over 20GB usage at times. And that's without add-ons.