Marvel Rivals massive PC RAM usage will be fixed in Season 2 as devs admit its a “very big problem”

NetEase’s Marvel Rivals is a fairly effectively optimised sport, particularly for an Unreal Engine 5 title. Whereas the crew behind the sport has managed to optimise Doctor Strange’s portals and environmental destruction, they’re conscious of the sport’s large RAM utilization on PC.

Because it stands proper now, Marvel Rivals on PC is a RAM glutton with current patches nearly requiring 32GB of RAM. (You could possibly in all probability make do with 24GB however who does that?) Chatting with PCGamer, sport director Guangyun Chen promised {that a} new function is coming to treatment this subject.

Marvel Rivals RAM utilization can be fastened

Speaking to the outlet at GDC 2025, Chen defined that the superhero sport can be introducing an “experimental function” to the sport that ought to repair the absurdly excessive reminiscence points.

“On PC, we understand that [optimization] is a giant drawback, particularly for the reminiscence consumption,” the sport director stated. “So it could be that in Season 2, we can have an experimental test field in our launcher gamers can use to cut back reminiscence [consumption] considerably.”

On launch and even in early beta exams, Rivals ran simply effective with 16GB of RAM on PC. Moreover, the sport runs extraordinarily effectively on console, together with Xbox Collection S which has simply 10GB of GDDR6 RAM. In actual fact, solely 8GB of that’s used for video games.

Within the interview, Chen admitted that Marvel Rivals RAM utilization is a really large subject for the sport proper now. With tens of millions of gamers internationally, lots of these seemingly don’t have entry to high-spec PCs, and fewer gamers means much less cash for NetEase.

“It’s a really large drawback, however it’s lots of work to prepare [a fix],” the director continued. “We can’t simply launch it in a small patch, we’ve to completely take a look at it. However we understand the issue and we’re going to maintain optimizing.”

Chen additionally put a good quantity of blame on Unreal Engine 5. Whereas the engine is nice to work with, it may be a pig to optimise, and that’s the difficulty NetEase is dealing with proper now. “It’s laborious for all builders to make use of the engine and make it good,” the director defined. “It’s a brand new engine for us. We’ve lots of laborious work [ahead] to optimize it.”

Nevrtheless, Rivals is constant to go ahead with heaps of latest content material. With a new hero coming every month-and-a-half with new occasions, maps and modes, gamers at all times have one thing to do. What’s this I hear a couple of twerking Venom?