Is there a way to make gmod use more memory? I'm asking because gmod was running fine when I was using it yesterday, but now I noticed it was running slower and using less memory.
No, that's not how it works.
[QUOTE=Robotboy655;46899295]No, that's not how it works.[/QUOTE]
What do you mean? How does it work?
You don't force things to use more memory and it wont run faster if it would have more memory.
Something else is causing your problem. ( An addon? A background process on your PC? )
[QUOTE=Robotboy655;46899346]You don't force things to use more memory and it wont run faster if it would have more memory.
Something else is causing your problem. ( An addon? A background process on your PC? )[/QUOTE]
The reasoning isn't flawed, though, a program using more RAM has more things loaded into it, thus accessing these resources faster. Maybe something forces the game to use a set amount of RAM, causing slowdown as resources need to be loaded more frequently.
Buuuuuuut I'm pretty sure this is not what's happening here
[QUOTE=Splatpope;46899459]The reasoning isn't flawed, though, a program using more RAM has more things loaded into it, thus accessing these resources faster. Maybe something forces the game to use a set amount of RAM, causing slowdown as resources need to be loaded more frequently.
Buuuuuuut I'm pretty sure this is not what's happening here[/QUOTE]
If the engine is limiting the amount of RAM, then forcing it through Task Manager or whatever other means won't change anything since you can't just override the engine.
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;46903691]Also that's not how RAM works. You can't actually make shit run faster with more ram. A cache would be better suited and a less shittier HDD. But if the engine is limiting this you can't force it. Not unless you change the engine entirely.[/QUOTE]
If the application reaches the maximum amount of RAM it may use, then it will have to load resources from permanent storage and accessing the latter is at least 1000 times slower than accessing it from the RAM. It gets even more hectic if the application may use more RAM than the computer actually has, thus delving into page fault management, which is even slower.
In the end, low RAM usage can be a bottleneck if you don't have a SSD, which can lower framerate very badly as it needs to load resources before even trying to process it and build the frames.
Actually, poor memory management is the reason many newer application run badly on older machines.
Admittedly, increasing RAM usage/availability surely wont magically make things run smoother, but it may be a bottleneck.
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;46904570]Excellent explanation.[/QUOTE]
If an application can take advantage of more RAM, then yes it can run faster.
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