Does the amount of RAM effect games performance?

KMSquire

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I currently have 8GB of RAM installed, when I play GTA V I get frame drops and I notice that i have no free memory. To in increase the performance and to gain more memory should I upgrade my amount of RAM?
 

KMSquire

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Nope, nothing apart from task manager. Specs are:

Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2.0
AMD Vishera FX-8350 4.0GHz
Thermaltake 730W
1TB Seagate Barracuda
Windows 7 Home premium 64bit
Corsair vengance 8GB DDR3
XFX 2GB AMD R9 270X