How much memory?

[Sandman1969]

How much memory should the game use on low settings?

I have noticed that when the game freezes,which it has done a LOT of today, it's using a gig & a half of RAM out of 8GBs.

So what should the normal usage be?

 

Had the game freeze 5 times in 5 minutes in one match earlier.

 

According to event viewer, it stops interacting with windows.

[Czevak]

Assuming you are using an old computer for LOOOOOOOOOOOOW settings, it should use around 1-4 GB (depending on RAM and system)

 

High settings? (assuming great computer) about 1.5 GB RAM

 

It's basically the same for RAM, it's the CPU's usage that really changes on different settings.

[Sandman1969]

For reference, I am using 8GBs of Corair XMS RAM. Game's graphics on low with fps limited to 60. Game hits 1.5GBs almost as soon as I load the game.

Been playing WG games for a few years now & have never had so many game freezes as I have had today alone.

[Lert]

Running WoWS on maximum settings, 1.5gb ram taken up.

[gurudennis]

In the Task Manager, go to Details and right click on the column header, then click on Select Columns. In the dialog, remove any columns that have to do with memory and add the one that's called Commit Size. It's the best measure of memory usage, everything else being a bit of a misnomer to an average user.

 

Now, look at Commit Size for WorldOfWarships.exe. If it's approaching 2 GB then you may have an issue, otherwise it's business as usual.

[garfield001]

System requirements

 

Game Version: 0.5.9

To install the World of Warships game, launch the downloaded file.

Installer file size: 9 MB.

Space needed on hard drive for game installation: 32 GB.

System requirements for Windows

Parameter	Minimum Requirements	Recommended
Operating System:	Windows XP x86/Vista x86	Windows 7 64-bit or newer
Processor (CPU):	Core2Duo 2.7 GHz (Core2DuoE6750) AMD Athlon II 3 GHz X2 250 (Athlon II X2 250) Mobile Intel Core i3 2.5 GHz (i3 3120M)	Intel Core i5 3rd gen "Ivy Bridge" (Intel Core i5-3570) AMD Six-core 3.5 GHz (AMD FX 6300)
Active Memory (RAM):	2 GB *2.5 GB for configuration with integrated video	> 4 GB
Graphics Card (GPU):	nVidia GeForce 8800GT/9600GT IntelHD 4000 nVidia GeForce 620M AMD Radeon HD 4650 VRAM: 512 MB Minimal supported resolution - 1280*720	nVidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti AMD Radeon R7 250x GeForce GTX 560M VRAM: 1024 MB Screen resolution: 1920*1080
Audio Card:	Compatible with DirectX 9.0c	Compatible with DirectX 9.0c
Free Space on Hard Drive:	32 GB	32 GB
Internet Connection Speed:	1024 Kbps or higher	1024 Kbps or higher

[Sandman1969]

In the Task Manager, go to Details and right click on the column header, then click on Select Columns. In the dialog, remove any columns that have to do with memory and add the one that's called Commit Size. It's the best measure of memory usage, everything else being a bit of a misnomer to an average user.

 

Now, look at Commit Size for WorldOfWarships.exe. If it's approaching 2 GB then you may have an issue, otherwise it's business as usual.

 

Just ran WGCheck, found a damaged file & recovered it. Loaded wows. Under processes, it's using 764MBs and climbing. Under commit it's at 974,920 K. << is almost over a million now.

[gurudennis]

Just ran WGCheck, found a damaged file & recovered it. Loaded wows. Under processes, it's using 764MBs and climbing. Under commit it's at 974,920 K.

 

Seems totally normal to me.

[Sandman1969]

 

Seems totally normal to me.

 

On low graphics settings?

[gurudennis]

On low graphics settings?

 

While graphics settings have some effect on memory usage, it's not always going to be that simple. With a discrete GPU, the graphics settings should impact graphics memory usage and rendering performance more than anything else. So yes, I think around 1 GB is more than reasonable for a game of this size.

[Sandman1969]

 

While graphics settings have some effect on memory usage, it's not always going to be that simple. With a discrete GPU, the graphics settings should impact graphics memory usage and rendering performance more than anything else. So yes, I think around 1 GB is more than reasonable for a game of this size.

 

1GB overall or 1GB on graphics?

Using an HD 6870 1GB card with 8GB RAM.

[PhonkEL]

I don't know what they're thinking with these minimum requirements because Windows 7 uses over 2GB with a fresh install. In my experience (a PC I use exclusively for WoWs) 4GB is barely enough, 8GB is perfect.

 

How much video memory do you have? That's more likely to be the cause of the freezes you experience.

 

Edit: you beat me to it. Your setup should be sufficient for medium settings so there's something else.

[gurudennis]

 

1GB overall or 1GB on graphics?

Using an HD 6870 1GB card with 8GB RAM.

 

Task Manager doesn't have a column for GPU memory usage as far as I'm aware. We're talking main RAM only.

 

If you want to look up GPU memory usage, try GPUz (a third party tool).

[Sandman1969]

Game just crashed twice and both times, it's commit charge was at 1.5 million K.

[PhonkEL]

Do you have the latest video drivers installed?

[Swine_007]

Main RAM mine uses about 1.5gig of the 12 installed on average.  It's on a desktop so video ram is not shared it's running on a GTX 750ti.  I would expect 1.5 is about normal.     

[Halli_SPARTA]

Ok lets use the task manager and make Wows the top user of the system ram.

So open task manager (ctrl, alt , del,) click processes, at bottom click box that say's show processes from all users.

Next left click worldofwarships.exe   , Scroll down to priority and set to high.  DONE!!!!

 

[Sandman1969]

Windows 10 doesn't seem to be able to do that. Nevermind, you gotta go under details in task manager & right click it. Will try that after.

Currently reinstalling to an HDD from an SSD.

[CylonRed]

Windows 10 doesn't seem to be able to do that. Nevermind, you gotta go under details in task manager & right click it. Will try that after.

Currently reinstalling to an HDD from an SSD.

 

Reinstalling alone may help rather than where the game is installed to.

[Sandman1969]

 

Reinstalling alone may help rather than where the game is installed to.

 

Have done a few reinstalls already.

[Sandman1969]

Ok lets use the task manager and make Wows the top user of the system ram.

So open task manager (ctrl, alt , del,) click processes, at bottom click box that say's show processes from all users.

Next left click worldofwarships.exe   , Scroll down to priority and set to high.  DONE!!!!

 

 

 

That didn't work either.

The only thing that has changed since I started playing wows is wows.

Not sure what changed with 5.9 but the game freezes a hell of a lot more than it did a few patches ago.

I really wish WG could figure it out, but they can't.

I really don't want to quit the game because of this crap.

[CylonRed]

According to event viewer, it stops interacting with windows.

Need more info on the crashes because the above really means nothing.  The game should have a log file associated with it - possibly in the WoWs 'crashes' folder.

 

Not sure what the Radeon 6870 compares to on the nVidia side of things....

 

Literally - there are hundreds of things that can causes of crashes - and likely a ton more potentially caused by the game.  I have had games crash on me and found the cause months later - with the OS/system.

[Sandman1969]

According to event viewer, it stops interacting with windows.

Need more info on the crashes because the above really means nothing.  The game should have a log file associated with it - possibly in the WoWs 'crashes' folder.

 

Not sure what the Radeon 6870 compares to on the nVidia side of things....

 

Literally - there are hundreds of things that can causes of crashes - and likely a ton more potentially caused by the game.  I have had games crash on me and found the cause months later - with the OS/system.

 

And after submitting a ticket awhile back, WG literally gave up as they cannot find a reason for the cause of the crashes. If it was my system, they should be able to determine that. They did not.

Going to reinstall win10 since I can't have a good round of wows at all anymore.

[CylonRed]

If it was my system, they should be able to determine that. They did not.

Actually - the above logic is flawed.  They do not have your system to play with and experiment with to determine a cause.  All they can do is try and lead a user to test the game - the only thing support would know about.  They do not know your specific install or hardware with your specific set of drivers.

[Max_Dispersion]

Have you also stress tested your whole rig ?

What temps are you getting on Both GPU and CPU max ?

 

When was the last time you did a fresh OS install ?

I would strongly suggest running a few hours in memtest and then a few hours in a stress test and monitor all temps.