Ram upgrade Question!

[vjicecool]

Will upgrading my ram from 4gb to 8gb increase my gaming experience.
I have a mac book pro 4gb ram, 2.0 ghz intel core i7 with 750 gb hard disk.
I am running x plane on it
If i increase the ram from 4 gb to 8 gb, will i see any increase i n performance . I find it little bit slow even if i played it with settings.
Please suggest guys

 

[GGJstudios]

Affect of 4gig ram to 8gig ram upgrade on gaming performance?

 

[whoathere]

I would imagine an increase will be noticed. But I'm def no expert in gaming.

 

[EndlessMac]

I think the quickest way to find out is to play your game first and then open up System Preferences and check for how much page outs you have. If there is a lot then you'll benefit from more RAM. If not then there will probably be no benefit.

You should restart your Mac before doing this test so that all the page outs will be from your gaming and not from other things you do with your Mac.

 

[snaky69]

Will upgrading my ram from 4gb to 8gb increase my gaming experience.
I have a mac book pro 4gb ram, 2.0 ghz intel core i7 with 750 gb hard disk.
I am running x plane on it
If i increase the ram from 4 gb to 8 gb, will i see any increase i n performance . I find it little bit slow even if i played it with settings.
Please suggest guys

Most games are not RAM intensive but CPU and GPU intensive, I strongly doubt you'd see any performance improvement at all.

 

[bobcan]

I think the quickest way to find out is to play your game first and then open up System Preferences and check for how much page outs you have. If there is a lot then you'll benefit from more RAM...

You might also get a 'decent idea' by opening up The Activity Monitor and seeing what the System Memory usage shows you.. I would think that for the price, an 8GB Upgrade would be well worth it on any MBP..

 

[GGJstudios]

I think the quickest way to find out is to play your game first and then open up System Preferences and check for how much page outs you have

I think you probably meant "Activity Monitor", not "System Preferences", as the latter doesn't show page outs. See my post in the thread I linked to in post #2.

 

[EndlessMac]

I think you probably meant "Activity Monitor", not "System Preferences", as the latter doesn't show page outs. See my post in the thread I linked to in post #2.

You are correct. I meant Activity Monitor.