Microsoft Quietly Scrubs 32GB RAM Guidance For Windows 11 PCs
Microsoft is quietly rewriting its hardware guidance for Windows 11. Not long ago, the company made headlines for calling 32GB the "no worries" sweet spot for gaming on Windows. Now that recommendation has vanished into thin air as Microsoft pivots to promoting performance optimizations designed to accelerate machines with just 8GB of RAM.
It's not quite a hard pivot. To be fair, Microsoft never recommended 32GB as the baseline, and instead said that upgrading to that amount "helps if you run Discord, browsers, or streaming tools alongside your games." Microsoft maintained that "16GB RAM is a must, 32GB is a no-worries zone." Microsoft also said that 32GB "gives newer titles more breathing room as memory demands continue to rise."
Fast forward a few weeks later and that document, titled "Gaming features: What the best Windows PC gaming systems have in common," is gone. There's not even a trace...
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