This is a broadly substance free post. But I assume most VR headset owners have at this point at least tried Half Life: Alyx.

It therefore follows that most of you are familiar with this dumb popup you get the first time you run it:

Fair enough, on my old PC I only had a Sandy Bridge i7 2600K and a GTX1080Ti. Maybe I was below the recommended requirement even though I played through the entire campaign just fine.

Well, I just built a new PC containing a Ryzen 9 9900X, a Radeon RX 7900 XTX with 24 gigs of VRAM, and 64 gigs of system RAM.

And I still get that dumb “low memory” popup.

This game came out four years ago, Valve. What the hell did you expect people to play it on? A Cray EX254?

  • CodilingusEnglish
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    10 days ago

    This message is mainly from the game thinking Windows’ paging file/swap aren’t large enough. I’ve seen it default to static sizes, to Windows controlled and small, and to (what I think is best) Windows controlled and its the size of your RAM.

    When I last played, I was using w11 from a custom .iso install. It was static set to like 2gigs, and setting it to match my 16gigs of RAM made the warning go away.

    Most people don’t know, but a lot of programs are designed to use an amount of Windows’ paging file, and/or a Linux swap partition or the newer zram.