Ram upgraded to 3GB still no increase in performance

[KEN]

I upgrade my ram from 1 gb to 3 gb and i still dont see a increase in performance....its still the same as i play gta sa on low at full speed with 1 gb ram and now with 3 gb when i put them on medium or high it becomes laggy as it used to b before....so do it depends on video card for textures at low or high????
and in wat things have this ram upgrade given me speed boosts?

[Sethioz]

amount of ram does not give any speed boost, you need to learn what RAM is. even if you would have 30gb, it would still be same, it only allows you to run more applications at same time. however gta should get small boost, because 1gb for gta 4 should not be enought, but not sure. RAM speed is what would make applications faster.

[KEN]

ok a little boost :)

[MagicalSilence]

Hmm yes its not really big boost but there is noticeable between 2gig 4gig could still upgrade to 8 from 4 but no point really since i dont run anything what 4gig isint capable to handle.

[KEN]

yes i think 3gb is enough for me coz i play games and do just a little use of movie maker and other programs so i think i dont need anything more than that?

[Ritterkreuzträger]

Offtop a little, but i have 6GB, but can use only 3GB, because for more you need 64bit system(and as far as i know, nothing works as it should to at 64bit ones), so i created a disc out of another 3GB of RAM, and filled it fully with pagefile.

[KEN]

hmmm........after like 12 hours ram crashed and stopped working then i went to retailer and replaced it and now new ram gives a huge boost in speed.....i did not expected that much increase in speed....i player on 512x512 resolution dbz bt3 at 50fps and now with 1024x1024 resolution i get over 60 fps =O
so ram upgrade gives a nice boost but the problem was in the ram stick in this case.......

[Sethioz]

512x512 is wierdest resolution ive heard, but if you have SAME ram models, they are like synchronized and works better.

[KEN]

lol u can use and resolution u want on pcsx2 like 900x900 and 512x512 is the lowest.....

[Sethioz]

noob ... on emulators it doesn't matter how much ram you have, or how good cpu or graphics card you have, emulators have nothing to do with pc specs, it is enought to have lil bit better than console itself. everything depends on the sunchronization of the BIOS, which cannot be emulated so well.

[KEN]

wat?
so y i get more performance with more ram and less performance with the new ram removed?
ram increase and video card upgrade gave me a nice increase in performance....

[Ritterkreuzträger]

He told you, what RAM capability or anything else is not matter that much, enough is to have something better than console"s one.
Of course this will give you "increase", in windows and in window"s games at all. If you meant console"s ones, then it is means what you had WORSE than consoles hardware before. If the game you are playing have a 60FPS, will the new hardware give any "performance boost"?

[KEN]

yes my hardware was worse than console hardware before thats y on lowest resolution i hardly got 50fps but now i can get beyond 100fps if i dont limit it.....