Abnormal memory usage?

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I'm consistently seeing memory usage of around a gig of Sins in Task Manager. It doesn't seem to affect performance or multi-tasking (I'm on dual-monitor), but it seems a little odd when most (much more demanding) games are 200-500mb at max.

What's up?
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
I just started playing my first large map with 1.3 (single star) and well about 4 hours into the game it came to a complete halt. Task manager said Sins was using 1.9 gigs of memory.? I managed to save the game and tried to reload it and ran into the same problem. Computer stats below, and if anyone has a guess as what's going on, thanks.

Windows XP (32bit)
Intel e6700
4 GB RAM
320 HD
8800 GTX
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
The high memory usage is normal when you play with everything set to Highest (graphics).
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
The game will gladly use the memory available to it. Highest textures in particular will require large amounts of memory.
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
I do have every graphic option set to Highest so I'll try turning that down a little, but for some reason that doesn't seem like it should cause the game to stop responding, especially when I was completely zoomed out in the map view. Thank you.
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
The game will gladly use the memory available to it. Highest textures in particular will require large amounts of memory.
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Ah, that makes sense. I'd expect less of that to go on in the system memory rather than the graphics card's memory, though. I suppose with the higher-res and detail it makes sense.
Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top
So does SINS benefit from having 4 gigs instead of 2gigs? Or video memory is most important. I always thought anything above 2 gigs now was a waste.
Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top
The game uses a lot of memory but it's very stable and I'm very happy with the stability..

Simon
Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top
So does SINS benefit from having 4 gigs instead of 2gigs? Or video memory is most important. I always thought anything above 2 gigs now was a waste.
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In general x64 is a waste unless you go around 6GB or higher.
Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top
So does SINS benefit from having 4 gigs instead of 2gigs? Or video memory is most important. I always thought anything above 2 gigs now was a waste.
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I don't believe Sins is large-address aware, so even on a 64 bit system it'll still be capped to 2gb.