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IGB Ram. Is it enough?

LashersLashers Member Posts: 186
in Lord of the Rings Online

I know it says 1 GB in the recommended stats, but I am experiencing moderate lag at times and upgraded my graphis card to a Radeon 1650 pro to fix it.  I still have some lag and am wondering if my 1 GB of ram may be the problem?  Not sure why it would be if it is okay as far as recommended specs goes.

Do you think adding 1 or 2 GB of ram will help?

 

Thanks

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  • xcaliburxcalibur Member Posts: 571
    Originally posted by whitewolf


    I know it says 1 GB in the recommended stats, but I am experiencing moderate lag at times and upgraded my graphis card to a Radeon 1650 pro to fix it.  I still have some lag and am wondering if my 1 GB of ram may be the problem?  Not sure why it would be if it is okay as far as recommended specs goes.
    Do you think adding 1 or 2 GB of ram will help?
     
    Thanks
    Describe the 'lag' to us.  Is it just choppy or does it kind of freeze up and read off of the hard drive?
  • dbenthamdbentham Member Posts: 5
    well with the price of ram at the moment why not upgrade..
  • SKIPADISKIPADI Member UncommonPosts: 37

    I find having 2 gb of RAM to be very helpful.  On my older XP system 1 gb was sufficient to run with settings on high with intermittent lag.  With 2 gb my lag has cleared up and I have been able adjust certain setting much higher.

    On my wife's newer Vista system 2 gb was absolutely required since Vista is a real system hog.

    Hope that helps.

    When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other in order that the people may require a leader.
    -- Plato

  • rshandlonrshandlon Member Posts: 173
    I would recommend 2gig of ram.  I am currently running 1g on a midrange system with a new vid card and I get the choppiness and lag that comes from not enough memory.  Turbine's AC2 engine which is in LoTR is a real beast and loves all the room it can get. 



    I am not dissing the thing, it just loves to work with as much memory as possible.



    I will soon be upgrading my ram and also thinking about getting a Killer NIC card too.
  • LashersLashers Member Posts: 186

    That sounds like my situation.  I have a Dell xps 400 with xp.  It has 1gb ram.  I just installed a radeon 1950 pro graphics card but that didn;t clear up the moments of lag entirely.

    I am planning on putting in 2 more GB of ram tonight and see how it runs then.  Hopefuly that will clear it up.

  • LordSlaterLordSlater Member Posts: 2,087

    http://www.microdirect.co.uk/ProductInfo.aspx?ProductID=9851&GroupID=1146

     

    This link will lead you to the best brand of ram chips on the market [corsair] and the price is great ive got 2 in my rig and no problems at all.

     

    I hope it helps.

     

    Oh also for £60 you can get a 3.4 Pentium D processor. Not bad really.

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