I have a single stick of 8GB RAM and I saw on some other Battlefield forums some people bought another stick and saw a big increase in performance. right now i get like 60-80 fps on ultra 1080p 100% render. is my cpu bottlenecking me or is my RAM giving me bad fps. cuz imo i think i should have more fps than this.
my specs are:
i5 4570 non K
GTX 1070
1 stick 8GB 1600 MHz
i would like to know this as well.
No.
Your single stick is not causing your issues. Your CP:U is not the bottleneck and neither is your GPU.
You may have a swap file issues yes, but that single stick or rather DDR is not the issue it may be the lack of available RAM but I doubt it.
A slow or old HDD may cause failure if it does not keep up with the speed the swap file requires. Or a lack of buffer on a HDD or SSD or available swap space.
An additional stick of 8GB would solve such issues but the single stick would not be the casue, rather the lack of RAM overall…but I doubt that’s what it is anyway.
The simple answer is YES.
If you are not running in dual-channel mode, you loose considerable performance when related to memory calls, etc.
The games optimization is that is what is holding your fps back.
Dual Channel is always better but it’s not gonna create miracles and give you 10+ fps so I highly doubit it.
I got a single 1x8GB stick too.
I’m going to look around and see if I can find anyone that is selling the exact same stick 
I’m sure it’ll make a little difference? I’ll take even a bit of performance boost for BF1 atm. (fps drops in intense battles and parts of the maps are not fun at the moment)
the game is just very poorly optimised, i went from 8 gb to 16 gbmyself and it barely did anything but my cpu is always at 100% so that seems to be the bottleneck
Are they dual channel or single though. The amount of the ram is a different thing.
i5-4690k @ 4.2ghz, rx 480 4gb, 2x8gb 1600mhz, BF1 installed on SSD. My pc was on single channel for months now, lol. I reinstalled them in dual channel and the frame drops to 30-40 fps don’t happen anymore. I thought it was optimization, dx12 was crazy 30-90 fps with stuttering, dx11 30-60 fps but definitely more stable. I had drops even on medium. It’s stable 60+ fps on ultra now, no more stuttering on dx12. Dual channel matters.
my 16GB DDR3 was in single channel for whatever reason (me being a most likely). When I put it on Dual Channel, I saw a significant increase.
Yes it does. Absolutely yes. I was on 1x8gb and now I bought another 8gb so it’s 2x8, now it’s flawless. Before I couldn’t reach 60 and would play at 30-45 fps with a RX480 and it 6500
I have seen benchmarks using single, dual and ,quad memory and the results are within a few fps of each other . So I don’t think it really makes much difference . More memory is more important than configuration . People on here say they put an extra stick of ram in to do dual memory and the game ran better . Go into bios and set single channel and I bet its still fine
Why are people so afraid to put ram in their computer? It’s the cheapest upgrade you can do.
I went from 8G to 16G (Both dual channel, BTW) and it made quite a difference. BTW, I wouldn’t get too hung up on FPS, but more about how it plays. Given the general problems with the game, I’d question the accuracy of any game feedback from EA.
Do you have a lot of orange warnings on the left of your screen?
Ive seen a lot of people mention dual channel but I think most that are upgrading from single channel probably only had 8gb so going to 16gb should net them some benefits anyway unless you have a super lean installation of Win10. I’m not sure if dual channel specifically has much if any impact at all.
However, like the previous poster says, ram is cheap and future games are only ever going to use more so just bite the bullet and get it now.
No need to either get exactly the same ram, just get the same type eg DDR3 or DDR4 and the same speed and you should be good to go. Kingston or Crucial are generally compatible with most boards & cpu’s
Went from a single 8gb ddr4 2400 to dual and it made zero difference at my end.
Usually the i5s start to bottleneck in large matches at around the 70-80FPS mark. There are numerous videos, benchmarks and posts elsewhere which include a range of i5s and found that, in these scenarios, that they started to bottleneck at around 70-80FPS.
I would advise posting on dedicated hardware forums or subreddits for hardware help rather than here though.
On a side note, RAM isn’t cheap anymore. It’s been increasing in price for months and is set to continue. It’s almost doubled in price compared to what it once was.
True but its still only £40, you certainly cant upgrade your cpu or gpu for that kind of money
Yeah paid £38 for some Corsair ddr4 2400 and then 6 months later same ram was £50!