How much does RAM effect MMORPGs?

[Kevin]

It has nothing to do with EDO. It had to do with the packaging. 72 pin SIMMS on a wider (32 bit) bus needed to be added in pairs. But you could get EDO, FPM and other types of modules on a 72 pin SIMM package. In a 486 system (16 bit bus) you could add those SIMMs singly. DIMM's only need to be added singly in most cases. Of course if you are using dual channels, then you need matched pairs again, and with 2 512MB sticks on a dual channel board you only have 512MB of memory, but you have a lot faster access to it.

But again, it isn't EDO (Extended Data Out) that was the problem it was the SIMM packing and they only required pair matching in certain usage situations.

There are other issues with older boards where you couldn't use dual sided modules and having different speeds would cause issues as well. But most boards that will run a 1GHz processor don't have these limitations.


As to the question. 256MB of RAM is piddly. 512 is my minimum level for doing much of anything on a modern system, read running WinXP (D2 will see a performance increase going from 256 to 512 as well, just an FYI), and 1GB is starting to creep down to the entry level line. I hate working on 256MB systems, way too much disk swapping for me.

Just some NITs really.

Out of curiosity, what MMORPG is it?