| radishhead said: How come PCs require so much more RAM than consoles? |
Consoles directly access the games and the games are made so the hardware can directly access it. Pc's have windows the OS is always turned on not like on consoles and therefore uses ram and PC ressources. The games also cant directly communicate with the hardware they need for example DirectX DirectSound etc... all this needs ressources and thats one of the reasons why your Pc has to be better than your console to play the same games with same graphics.
The other reason is because of 100 different geforce or amd cards etc the games cant use the graphics cards etc. whole power because programming all software to use the maximum of every gpu, cpu etc. out there costs to much money and time. You cannot optimize games on PC like you can on a console.
