If a game needs x ram and a PC only has x ram, what happens when you try to play it?
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RAM recommendations are more about playability and performance. A game will usually work with less RAM, but will be slow or freeze up temporarily, making it hard to play normally.
More specifically, when a computer runs out of RAM, it takes some memory you haven’t used for a while and writes it to disk, freeing the space it was using. When it needs something from that memory, it has to write some other memory to disk and read that memory back again. This is known as swapping, and because disk reads and writes are hundreds of times slower than RAM too much swapping can bring a computer to its knees.
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