Something must be wrong with your PC, Black Desert Recommended Requirements 6 GB of Ram.
http://www.game-debate.com/games/index.php?g_id=7996&game=Black Desert Online
There is nothing wrong with his computer. It recommends 6GB for basic settings and general game play. They aren't doing a stress test for somebody who will play the game for several hours. They can't possible predict every move a player will make within a game and players are bound to push the boundaries of the game code and their hardware. I know there is a general understanding on the forum of having an "efficient amount of memory", but the truth really is that technology will always continue to out pace what we have learned to be an acceptable allocation of speed and space.
I don't play WoW anymore, but it is a great example of a game that could be played on a system with only 1GB of RAM and a 256MB graphics card. The minimum requirements to this day are 2GB and a 512MB graphics card at 1024x768... But nobody - or very few people - actually play WoW at 1024x768. You KNOW that you're not going to have a good time trying to play WoW on a dual-core, 2GB, 512MB GFX system. It just won't happen. Not with the addition of UI mods and intensive raids.
This point stays true for every other game out there. Once you get into the more intense moments in the game it WILL push your hardware to it's limits and what we currently believe is an acceptable amount of memory, graphics power, or CPU speed just simply won't cut it. In the case of this thread it is memory. Older games and newer games alike are being updated, modded, and constantly changed in ways that leave their "minimum" and "recommended" specs completely obsolete.
It seems (anecdotally) that more and more software is coming with memory leaks. Browsers, games, etc.. I would guess it follows the same pattern as any hardware capability-the better the gear the more sloppy code takes advantage of the fudge factor. They don't start to optimize in earnest until they bump up against the hardware limits. Then we get another generation of hardware and BOOM! off to the races again. That's probably why there is a sub culture of overkill (us
) in hardware.
This is a major factor as well. Games, web pages, and applications all demand more and more resources to run efficiently. Just because you can run version "x" on 8GB of memory doesn't mean you won't be running version "y" in 6 months or a year on 8GB and have the same experience. I have seen this particularly with Starcraft 2. I played the original just fine on 4GB, but as soon as Heart of the Swarm released I was not getting the same performance. So I upgraded to 12GB by adding an additional 2x4GB to my system. Then as they came out with each patch it generally started to use more and more memory to the point where 12GB wasn't enough and I was reviving the same error Woomack is getting (not enough system memory).
I thought there might be something wrong with my system as you have suggested, so I reformatted and was left with the same end result. I simply could not play the game at my desired level of settings with 12GB and run any other program at the same time. The games I prefered to play in the arcade are just giant memory hogs because of the amount of units that are placed on the map at any given time. The bottom line is that there are games out there with specific modes that just EAT memory until you have nothing left (unless you're running 32GB+). Even then I can see in the next 2-3 years some one releasing some sort of revolutionary game that tests systems with excessive amounts of memory when they are set to their maximum settings.
That's the real point for some one like myself - to play the game at the absolute best settings with the best performance and I don't believe you can do that with next gen games having only 8GB of memory. 16GB is probably going to cut it close over the next 2 years and the obvious choice for Gamers is going to be 32GB given it's price point and availability.
It's just not worth the possible bottleneck when you can spend under $100 (based on the fact you've already got 8-16GB) to alleviate the worry of not having enough memory when you go out to buy the latest and greatest game.
