Is 2.43 gb of RAM enough?

geolawyerman

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I plan on getting civ 5, but I'm not sure if my laptop has enough RAM to play the game, and I'm not the greatest with computers, so can you tell me if I have enough RAM (2.43gb), and if not, explain to me, in simple terms, how to get more RAM, preferably for free. I have a 32-bit os and my processor is an intel core with 2.40 GHz, whatever that is. I checked on can you run it, and my video card isn't good enough. Recommendations?


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You really need more RAM than that to play it.It might could play it, but my computer(desktop quadcore)has about 3 or so gigabytes of RAM, and it has a pretty rough time on Civ5, although some of that might be due to my graphics.

I don't know if there's any way to get more RAM for free, but you might could buy some pretty cheap.If you live near a Best Buy or some place like that, I think they usually sell RAM.

Btw, welcome to the forums!
 
Is it possible to devote some of your hard disc memory to Ram?

I think it is possible, although I don't know how/if it's even possible to do manually.I think computers may sometimes do it automatically when they don't have enough RAM to perform what they're doing.

But if you have a flash drive, it's possible to use that as extra RAM somehow.
 
Not only slow, but on my below spec laptop, I had a lot of file corruption going on. Depending on how many steam games you have, you may want to put steam on a separate thumb drive or external drive. USB is not going to slow the game down any less, than constantly accessing the same drive for both RAM and the game itself.
 
Or just playing on smaller maps might work fine, but if you're like me, you don't like those as well.
 
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