Vyor
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It legitimately is not full of more content, certainly not enough on screen at once to warrant 32 damned gigs of memory.
That's...What? About 10 Crysis running at the same time?
It's just heavily, heavily unoptimized. And its only going to get worse as talent in the industry fades.
Be ready for 32 gigabyte CoD MW2 remasters!
4k, so shitloads more pixels than any game from 2005 was made for(which means textures and shadows will be higher res too, along with geometry). Then you have the raytracing stuff which is... extremely RAM sensitive and greedy.
Then you have much, much, much, muuuuch longer view distances, which means you have more AI loaded into RAM at once(and objects in general).
Crysis has very short view distances, helped by very aggressive culling and map geometry made to hide things, and was a linear game with loading screens: not an open world game without them.
Is Forespoken shit? Absolutely. Is it poorly optimized? Not really.