YEP 
60fps are enough to fool the eyeā¦ LOLĀ³
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Nice explanation but still wrong, 1 gb of VRAm is not enough to run this game properly, your own screen shoot shows it, on ur 2 gb gpu the mem is maxed out and it is even using ram, also a vid with less than 100+pop and units firing or buildings rumbling doesnāt represent the true performance in games.
The game before the january update wasnāt using all that Vram but it was using up to 6 gigs of ram, but it seems like using more vram was a good step to improve performance and reduce RAM usage, but with guys with gpus with not enough memory they will keep reporting high ram usage for obvious reasons.
Donāt use USB memory stick as virtual memory, you will kill that little device pretty fast, since they have poor writing life span.
The scenario used to carry out the tests + the CBA.scn with population limit 400.
I will install on this pc an RX 580 card with 8gb of ddr5 just to see how much VRAM uses. Iāll post the resultsā¦
If the VRAM is saturated (if the game needs to put more data into the video memory size) the video card downloads part of the load on system memory: This slows down performance, as the video RAM is much faster than it does. system system system. IN theory RAM and VRMA therefore do not add up, unless there is need. Usually the video card reserves a system RAM space, but it is used when the vrma is full and not under normal use. Itās a bit like paging. Data that is not in RAM is put in a virtual RAM on hard disk, but this must NOT happen, it is a great thing.
In cpus with built-in CPU and GPU, there is no VRAM, but the video card and CPU share system RAM, which doubles as a VRAM through a unified structure (AMDās is called HUMA) that allows the GPU and the CPU simultaneous access to memory.
Turning on v-sync doesnāt make a difference for me, still generally smooth but speed rampings now and then.
To update you all, I made a defrag of the hard drive today, then the game speed up a little on loadings.
I then tried to play some games and, i the bigger one, it was bf4v4, in imperial age it was a little laggy (those frame drops I talked about before 120 goin to 80 fps), and lags when my Italian Genoese xbows were shooting 30+ arrows at the same time.
For the rest, the game was smooth, all graphics off.
Interesting this articleā¦
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition ā How to Increase Performance (FPS)
Operating System
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
CPU
AMD FX-8320 40 Ā°C
Vishera 32nm Technology
RAM
16,0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 832MHz (9-11-11-29)
Motherboard
ASRock 980DE3/U3S3 R2.0 (CPUSocket) 38 Ā°C
Graphics
SMBX2450 (1920x1080@59Hz)
SONY TV (1920x1080@59Hz)
8192MB ATI Radeon RX 580 Series (XFX Pine Group) 57 Ā°C
Storage
931GB Western Digital WDC WD10EZRX-00L4HB0 ATA Device (SATA ) 27 Ā°C
119GB Crucial_CT128MX100SSD1 (SATA (SSD)) 28 Ā°C
Optical Drives
Optiarc DVD RW AD-7261S ATA Device
Audio
Realtek High Definition Audio
Installed an XFX RX580 8GB VRAM.
The gameās performance has barely improved compared to the Sapphire 7850 even though the use of VRAM has drastically decreased. FPS playing online remain the same in both cases ā¦
Operating System
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
CPU
AMD FX-8320 38 Ā°C
Vishera 32nm Technology
RAM
16,0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 800MHz (9-11-11-29)
Motherboard
ASRock 980DE3/U3S3 R2.0 (CPUSocket) 35 Ā°C
Graphics
SMBX2450 (1920x1080@59Hz)
SONY TV (1920x1080@59Hz)
8192MB ATI Radeon RX 580 Series (XFX Pine Group) 48 Ā°C
Storage
931GB Western Digital WDC WD10EZRX-00L4HB0 ATA Device (SATA )
119GB Crucial_CT128MX100SSD1 (SATA (SSD)) 28 Ā°C
Optical Drives
Optiarc DVD RW AD-7261S ATA Device
Audio
Sound Blaster Z
VRAM on lobby
VRAM on playing game
With a lot of VRAM or with little VRAM the game played online does not show big performance improvements. Whoever has a dated computer, must aim to replace the video card and increase the ram memory. The CPU will work less and does not need to be replaced.
Iām hopeful for the February update. Played one game now and had no speed rampings as far as I could tell.
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The new update optimizes execution from ram memory. He should commit vRAM less, but to make a comparison with a metaphorā¦ it works like the world economy, you take off one side and you add to the other side, basically nothing has changedā¦ The number of instructions and graphic quality has its price and results in the purchase of a new video card from at least 4gb or more and at least 8gb of ram. The processor consequently decreases its usage and saves the cost of a new cpu processor 
Yeah, but graphic cards are much expensive, is better to focus on RAM, so more people can get less problems with low spec pc.
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I recommend buying on Steam, checking if you can run it, and if you canāt ā¦ just get a refund 
Itās hard to tell for sure without trying the game because one of my specs doesnāt technically meet the requirements but Iāve had no problems running the game and can get over 1100 in the ranked benchmark test.
As for V-sync, Iāve always gotten a higher FPS and better peformance with it OFF. But, again, the only way to really tell how your PC handles that is to try it.
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Sure :> The performance from my old configuration, compared to the new one, has not changed 
I try with amd fx 6300 black edition on gigabyte pro mainboard and two cards R7 240 with 2GB of vram each in crossfire. I am sure that this discreet configuration achieves higher qualitative performances as much as one RX 580 8gb and ryzen 5 2600
Update: I had a few small speed rampings today in a post-imp 1v1 game, bot nothing too crazy. Still well playable with 1 GB VRAM and 8 GB RAM, vsync off and all other programs closed. I agree with the idea to optimize more for low VRAM than for low RAM since the required GPU is more costly than RAM these days.
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