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> most emulated games will need at least 16 Gigs of RAM at minimum That's because the RAM is shared with the GPU and most of these games would require a GPU wi
by jillesvangurp 2y ago
> most emulated games will need at least 16 Gigs of RAM at minimum
That's because the RAM is shared with the GPU and most of these games would require a GPU with at least 2-4GB on top of the normal system requirement to have at least 8GB. So, 8GB of RAM would be cutting it close on a mac since part of that would have to be sacrificed for the GPU.
- GeekyBear 2y agoAlyssa lays out the reasoning in the linked blog post. They are running emulated games in their own separate virtual machine, because Intel games expect a 4k page size and the OS is running with a 16k page size. Virtual Machines require their own chunk if memory overhead, so the resource usage can't help being higher than a native MacOS game's would be.