BATTLETECH considered complete with one last patch coming, Harebrained moving on

Base game was and still is playable even with only 6GB of RAM if you have a decently sized SWAP partition/file on SSD. You will feel it though and will need to restart every other mission.
8GB makes it more enjoyable, but there will still be some swap activity in career/campaign mode (skirmish mode was always fine even on 6GB + SWAP)
The game could and should do a better job of memory management (Linux, Mac and Windows versions alike), but it is still absolutely playable with 8GB. Deactivating SWAP space is none standard behaviour, so one can not fault a game for crashing with a system configured that way.

Quoting: orochi_kyo

Quoting: The_Aquabatyou are lucky I guess just check the user profiles here there is still A LOT people using hardware more than 4 or 5 years old. You miss the point Linux is about extending the lifespan of old hardware. this has been discussed before but contrary to popular belief we Linux users are not bleeding edge lords... again check the profiles and you will see there are lots of ppl and on really old hardware.

Yeah, one has to be lucky for having a job that gives you the pleasure of changing your PC every two years, the same reason console users use against PC gaming because people like him are a minority, but really vocal, they actually make people think that you have to be buying new GPU and memory modules every 2-3 years.

I make $12 an hour. I live very cheap. I don't drink or smoke, don't eat at restaurants, don't date. I would like to do all of those things, but that takes money I don't have. I had saved $2000 for a 3900X/x570/x500XT system last year. Then an $1100 car repair on a Nissan Murano that then threw a rod 35 miles later forced to me buy a very used Ford Explorer for the remaining cash just to get to work. Instead of what I could have gotten I'm using a $150 mobo, a CPU I got on sale for about $100(If I had known about the 1600AF for $85 I would have bought that), a NVME that I've had sitting for six months because I bought on sale it in anticipation of the good system, along with the PSU I also bought at that time. Instead of the x500XT I was going to buy along with an LG 144 hz 32 in monitor, I carried over my existing gtx1060 and $120 Spectre 60hz tv.

The 16GB DDR4 3200 I bought instead of the 32GB 3600 I wanted is about $75 on newegg. If you have a job you can afford that. The 2600 is overclocking using it pretty okay. I'm only pushing it to 4GHZ, nothing bleeding edge. Cooler is a CM 212 EVO($29.99) with an extra fan carried over from the CM 212 EVO on my 2013-ish era Phenom II that is now just sitting there waiting to be some kind of server.

You know why I didn't buy a new GPU+monitor? It's because I need to build a CNC gantry router. I've been picking parts for literally years and should have the final pieces this next month or two. I'm hoping to do a Bitchute/Youtube channel featuring it as well as take side jobs using it because frankly no is calling me back when I send them my resume, so I guess I'm going into business for myself. I don't need the processing power for games, I need it for video editing.


Last edited by jarhead_h on 15 February 2020 at 6:48 pm UTC

I have 32GB DDR4 as per my profile. Memory leaks are not just about a game gradually chewing up memory, that is bad sure but WHAT is chewing up memory is also important, because those things can also eat CPU and GPU processing cycles which slow down the overall experience. As is the case with this game!