Memory Usage Issue

[charliesheen]

my gpu useage in town goes down to like 40% but my cpu isnt sweating at all. all cores are at like 20% max, sometimes below... the i-7 they recommend isnt even close to being used. Its a limitation they made for whatever reason.
But i think one is the heavy HD usage ALL THE TIME. This game loads every shit, every sec from HD, i think that is the reason why its so slow. IT just won'T use the memory. This might be one of the stupid ps3 limitaion issues. but ... why do WE PC USERS have to suffer for that BS? Can't they just make these limitations for the ps3 crowd, like all other ps3/pc games? Its not new that pc games look far superior by now then the ps3 twins.

The reason it does that (load from drive/virtual memory) is because the things that matter in the game seem to cost a lot of memory. I really got interested in this after reading the topic about people wanting zones redesigned, someone posted a link to an interview with the devs in which they said textures cost too much memory and that's why they copy and pasted terrain.

I'm not proposing that they convert the game to 64-bit and uncap memory usage as it would spiral out of control due to how much memory some stuff takes in this game. Primarily we are talking about the amount of players within your zone, it seems to rise and rise even if there is only 100 players for instance. If they let it go uncapped, the game could be trying to use tens of GB someday.

This is a two stage problem: first of all they need to change the way the game uses memory (by this I mean there is clearly something wrong if terrain costs so much memory, or loading a player costs so much memory) or in other words optimize it. Then they need to address the fact that the game is bias towards Virtual memory rather than Physical memory, and as such isn't making full use of the hardware. Even within the 2GB addressing limit of 32-bit, if they optimize it, things could be much much smoother for everyone.