WoW and RAM

[DeepGrey]

Would WoW perform better going from 2x512mb to 2x1gb? Is there a significant difference to make the upgrade?

 

[ScotteusMaximus]

assuming you don't have any other bottlenecks in your system (slow CPU, video card, internet connection, etc), 2 gigs of RAM will most definitely improve your WoW experience.

 

[lethial]

2x1GB gets my vote

 

[GrandGod]

I've been playing WOW for a few weeks, I have 2 gigs and have never seen it use more than about 800megs of ram. That's with windows shit running to. WOW was made to be playable for everyone. Low resultution textures, low LOD (Poly count), and such. So no I don't think it would make a difference. But it never hurts!

 

[Martyr]

a gig is good unless you alt-tab alot. or try to encode video while playin wow. oops.

 

[Umi.Ryuuzaki]

Performance also kinda depends on the server you're on. I've seen days where i'm on my friend's comp (A64 3500+, 2gb of ram, 7800GT) and the servers can just perform like total **** somedays.

 

[Baredor]

Crowded areas, like Ironforge or battlegrounds, or heavy events like Nefarian, you will see a difference. Otherwise I'd say 1 gig is plenty. The real problem is Blizz's asstastic code.

 

[DeepGrey]

Thanks for the replys. I ask because of the Corsair 2gb Kit that is on sale at the egg. I may just bite on it.

 

[Volume]

Newegg gave me a 2x1gb OCZ 2-3-2-5 kit for $199

 

[Neurofreeze]

Crowded areas, like Ironforge or battlegrounds, or heavy events like Nefarian, you will see a difference. Otherwise I'd say 1 gig is plenty. The real problem is Blizz's asstastic code.

Le sigh... it's one of the perennial truths of gaming. Remember Diablo II? It wasn't uncommon in the expansion to use up over 700MB of RAM for all the sprites, not to mention the whole thing was Glide optimized, years after 3dfx's demise.

 

[PWMK2]

I have a cousin who is a WoW fanatic... but I was shocked to learn upon going over to his house a few days ago that his "gaming PC" is actually one of those crappy Emachines with onboard video and 256MB of RAM... he gets like 5FPS, but it's still playable to him.

Yeah, upgrade the memory if you're noticing any problems.

 

[ameoba]

I've been playing WOW for a few weeks, I have 2 gigs and have never seen it use more than about 800megs of ram. That's with windows shit running to. WOW was made to be playable for everyone. Low resultution textures, low LOD (Poly count), and such. So no I don't think it would make a difference. But it never hurts!

That might be all that's resident but you forget what cache might do for you...

I remember seeing this when the game first came out:
http://hardware.gamespot.com/Story-ST-x-1304-x-x-x&body_pagenum=6
It only goes up to 1GB, but 512M to 1024G made a pretty noticable difference.

 

[Orr]

The more RAM you have for playing an MMO the better.