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Question Question about RAM and Performance

sno0ks

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Jun 11, 2015
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Does RAM improve performance as you play a game? Like as you play, and more and more stuff gets loaded into the RAM, do stutters and stuff diminish as it goes to the RAM to pull the data instead of the hard drive?

I ask, because I've been playing a lot of Mordhau, my CPU is my bottleneck, and it seems like it stutters/hitches way more when I first log in for the day, but as I play for an hour or so it starts to smooth out. I can't tell if it's just me adjusting and not noticing or if it's actually happening. I think I'm pretty good at perceiving this stuff.

(If it isn't obvious, I don't know much about how computers work)