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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It's not that the RAM hungry ones don't run, it's that they fill up the RAM and create stuttering - sometimes even with a big page file. Emulators can do this, for example.

And more RAM is particularly good because the CPU and GPU pull from the same pool of RAM in the device.