admin89 you're doing something very wrong with your OS if your RAM usage is that high. Or you're using custom textures and you should specify that.
I have a 4 GB system on Windows 7, 10, and I manage a couple 4 GB systems on 7 at work and they run perfectly fine on x64. Their RAM usage only gets high on my machines when I got a bunch of chrome tabs open.
It's normal since I don't use virtual memory . I disabled it and run Windows/Dolphin on real memory (Ram) . Yeah , I'm also using custom textures but even if I don't ... Windows has already ate up 3.3GB . I reinstall windows every 6 months and my PC has no bloatware , not even a useless anti virus software . So I doubt there is anything wrong with my OS
I also had Dolphin run on 4GB system before and it was fine (soft of...) . I'm not saying you can't run Dolphin on a low memory system , it's just that you won't be able to use the maximum potential of your PC
For gaming , 8GB is definitely better than 4GB and RAM is just getting retarded cheap these days
So you say you're doing something extremely non-standard with your OS, and use custom textures, and then tell users they need more RAM than that because your experience? Please don't do that if you're going to be using configurations like that.
Also, no RAM clearly isn't "retarded cheap" as OP has stated.
Anyways, under a sane OS config, 4 GB is fine. I literally have 4 GB systems/KVM VMs that I test PRs on. It makes no difference unless you're putting in custom textures or have a bunch of chrome tabs open.
(03-15-2017, 12:49 AM)admin89 Wrote: [ -> ]It's normal since I don't use virtual memory . I disabled it and run Windows/Dolphin on real memory (Ram) . Yeah , I'm also using custom textures but even if I don't ... Windows has already ate up 3.3GB
FYI, virtual memory in Windows is not unintelligently managed; It will never page the application you are currently using.
If you are gaming in Dolphin it is highly unlikely that you are accessing 10 tabs in [your internet browser here], MS Office, File Explorer, and other background system processes all at once. It's actually slowing your system down and endangering its stability to constrain its memory space like that.
Think of it this way: VM is like having your background programs and processes crouching and ready to pounce from your hard drive when they are selected again. With your limited system memory, instead of leaving them crouching in wait on your HDD in the page file and disk cache, Windows may end those processes altogether, and no longer store relevant information in your disk's cache (or RAM, obviously), so when you go back and select that program or your system needs that background process, it has to load the thing
completely from disk, rather than get you started with what's in the disk cache, and pull the rest up afterward. My analogy is flawed in a number of ways, but I hope the gist of it gets across. The page file is a useful thing.
Quote:Anyways, under a sane OS config, 4 GB is fine. I literally have 4 GB systems/KVM VMs that I test PRs on. It makes no difference unless you're putting in custom textures or have a bunch of chrome tabs open.
Good luck with your 4GB of Ram then . I don't disagree with you , I never said you shouldn't game on 4GB of RAM , I said 8Gb is better than 4GB and every single benchmark on the internet disagrees with you , why don't you get it ?
Here , 4Gb vs 8GB vs 16GB :
http://www.techspot.com/article/1043-8gb-vs-16gb-ram/
The OP doesn't even have 4GB , he has 3GB ...
with dolphin
we're talking about dolphin.
When RAM costs literally twice as much where the poster lives, no. 4 GB is fine when they literally. Asked. About. Dolphin.
Please stop giving bad advice.
Ok thanks , this is getting nowhere , I'm out :/
Maybe the Windows´ RAM usage has to do with the edition (Home, Ultimate and things like that)?
I have the Home edition of Windows 10, and it normally sits around 1.2 GB used. And I have never seen Dolphin using more than 500 MB of RAM in my case (that is, unless I use Vulkan or DX12...).
I´m not really sure, but who knows?
Dolphin is pretty conservative with memory usage under sane OS configs. It will get very high if you have custom textures.
It's also possible that Windows dynamically scales its RAM usage based on how much is available in order to give the best performance without choking other programs.