Good time of day. I’ll make one thing clear right away, I don’t want to conflict with you. I almost don’t know anything about IT. But a game tester is not the same as a game developer or an IT engineer.
I get my knowledge from dozens and hundreds of reviews on computer components and video games. I admit that I may not know something, or be mistaken. But could it be that the tech experts on dozens of major, reputable IT channels are all also wrong too?
I know that 16 GB of RAM is enough for most modern games. This is usually true for games created on the original proprietary engines (at such big studios as Rockstar, Capcom, CD Projekt, & etc). And it is true for games with good optimization, honed over several years. For example Cyberpunk 2077, which has many bugs and errors at the start, but in 5 years it has become almost the ideal, benchmark of optimization. It requires less than 16 GB of RAM even in 4K resolution with RTX.
But also I know about the games that have been in Early Access or Beta-Test for many years, or raw releases with terrible optimizations.
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1st example - Escape from Tarkov. The game has terrible optimizations! It can requires 30 GB of RAM and 30 GB of video memory (in high resolutions), but graphics still remain below average.
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2nd my lovely example - MindsEye. Terrible game with terrible optimizations on Unreal Engine 5. At the start, the game required more than 24 GB of RAM. But after 6 hotfixes 16 GB is already enough. It’s was the most failed release of 2025. RTX 5090 + 9800X3D (at one blogger on YouTube) can show 95 FPS in native 1280x720 resolution. It’s not the player’s fault, it’s not the PC’s fault. Just optimizations of the game.
I’m not misleading anyone. It’s just that the full picture is broader.
inZOI in Early Access and developed on Unreal 5.
And your second accusation - “I damaging precious components”. My PC is copes great with other games that are not in early access (already released), and which are developed on original proprietary engines. All components have normal workload, temperature and other indicators (according to the monitoring utility).
This bug with flying car may have different causes. I have never seen this bug, so I naturally assumed that your PC doesn’t have time to process the game with poor optimization because the lack of RAM. I could be wrong.
Are you trying to convince me that the Earth is flat? (I repeat, I don’t want to conflict with you). Best of luck