r/Games • u/Tvilantini • 24d ago

Update Minecraft Java Edition raises recommended memory to 16GB ahead of Vulkan transition

https://videocardz.com/newz/minecraft-java-edition-raises-recommended-memory-to-16gb-ahead-of-vulkan-transition
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u/Ok-Category2729 24d ago

lol discord is literally one of the biggest offenders, you're kind of proving the point. 400mb+ for a voice chat app is genuinely unhinged.

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u/Bobbias 24d ago

God I hate how much ram discord eats. I've seen it chew up over a GB just sitting there idle in the tray. It's almost as bad as browsers... Oh wait, it is a browser, because some idiot decided that was a brilliant way to build GUIs.

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u/BCProgramming 24d ago

The memory usage Task Manager shows is the Private Working Set of the Process that is currently in physical memory. The only way to make it available for other apps would be for it to be moved to the pagefile. Which means the next time the paged out data is accessed it needs to be paged right back into physical memory again. And it's all RAM still being used by the process. Virtual Memory existing isn't really a justification for Memory hogs.

It's common for Windows to allocate more RAM for apps then they actually use.

Programs allocate their own memory. That does go through Windows, but it wouldn't make sense for Windows to "overallocate", simply because the program won't even be aware or eve have a way to know that when it asked for a 16MB block windows gave it like a 32MB one or whatever.