How to allocate more ram to overwatch

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Just curious - what are you attempting to do here? OW will consume all the RAM it needs assuming you have sufficient RAM to start. The only settings I can think of that might make it take more would be the Reduced streaming setting…

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I was just wondering if my ow was using efficient ram. I have 16 gigs of ram but I’m not sure how much ow is using.

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Close your Chrome browser

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I think it automatically allocates the appropriate amount of RAM when you play it

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It won’t use much beyond 4 GB if that, I have it up now on Paris, takes about 2.5 GB with the launcher.

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Are u having problems?. Usually the OS and game decides it automatically. So u don’t have to allocate anything.

Disable unnecessary process and u disable some of the services you can read it here -

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theres a thing called task manager…

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I know… but how do I see how much ram is being used in task manager?

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you click on it, processes, find Overwatch the look to the right where it says “Memory” and should give you a value and %

also you cant allocate more ram it happens automatically

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You don’t need to worry. You have far more memory than Overwatch will ever need.

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Press ctrl + alt + delete.
Click on “task manager”
Click on “more details”, else you don’t and you will see “less details”
Click tab “performance”
Click on “Memory” to see there details.

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i have a question, i only have 8ram, does blizzard automatically put 8 or do i have to do it manually

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Me too buddy, me too.

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It doesn’t use more than 3,5 GB no matter how much more you have and it doesn’t need to use more if everything that is already loaded.

Also don’t necro old threads.

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Ah so we’ve evolved from asking how to allocate more RAM to minecraft

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If OW would take up all 8 gb of your memory your pc would stop functioning.

There’s tens/hundreds of background OS processes that require at least some cpu time / memory to make your pc function correctly.

For example if you use a bluetooth mouse or keyboard there’s a couple of services responsible for handling that.
If you need web connectivity(you do) there’s a couple of services responsible for it.

If you like having a GUI(Graphical user interface) and not just type in commands on a command line there’s services needed for that.

Then there’s drivers to make all your hardware function properly if at all.

All in all, usually your OS will need at least 2 GB available to it to function in a timely fashion

It might function with less but your performance will drop like a rock the lower it goes.

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haha

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You don’t. It’s automatic.

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Chrome will use ALL available system memory and a lot of your pagefile.

If you’re reluctant to “lose all your tabs” you can have Chrome save all your tabs and re-open them with all the histories of each tab as if Chrome had crashed. You need to go into:

  • Settings
  • Scroll all the way down to the bottom
  • under “On Start-up” there are THREE (3) tick boxes
  • Select the tick box for “continue where you left off”.

Chrome will still be purged from your memory when closed but will then re-open eveerything exactly where you left it when you re-open chrome.

There’s probably the same thing for other browsers like Firefox, IDK.