I tried to address this long ago with this guide. Many players that aren't tech savvy will see that and think well hey I have 4GB RAM, so I'm good to go, but they don't take into account that at least half of their RAM is already being used and therefore they have less than half the available memory required. There is a more fundamental problem than Paradox' laxness in updating the requirements and that is that many players don't even comprehend what's written there. It wasn't a lie when the game was released, but it is poor Store page maintenance. So information about 4 Gb minimum is just a lie - it's enough only to run menu, but not to load any city. Processor: AMD FX 8370 Black Edition 4.0 GHz (4.3 GHz Turbo). If youre a gamer and want to ensure you have enough RAM for some current. (PassMark 2,017), and should be more than enough for.
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Then i rebooted PC completely and started game again - it ate 5.6 Gb (vanilla, without any DLC or mods, because DLCs are not on free weekend). you should have no problem using 4GB of RAM. 4GB of RAM and a 128GB SSD, for 425, which they said they could upgrade to 256GB in the future if needed. That makes 4GB a good minimum specification for most users.
Originally posted by Shogal:I ran this game with 4 free Gb RAM, but when i started first city - it started to eat my RAM quickly and half of windows programs crashed because they could not allocate heap memory. Having at least 4GB of RAM will let users load up a reasonable number of browser tabs and leave enough RAM for using email, working with applications like Microsoft Word, and playing casual games.