So, I’ll give a little update with the Ram situation after spending days contacting many. This maybe a surprise, but my PC specs aren’t compatible with windows 11! After doing a clean install to windows 10 they’re (touch wood) are no BSOD at all.
Anyway, that said thanks for those advising
Yeah, I’ll just leave this here 
. I have seen over 30GB usage as well. It depends what you throw into the addon blender to get your cocktail.
EDIT: Mind you, this was also TLOD 9.00 Mountain detail to the horizon
TLoD 9 isn’t even the scenario that Guru3D tested, so you’re definitely a corner case.
Yes sir, that was a way back then shot though. Now with top shelf hardware, and inside of top 200 world record OC’s I can manage TLOD 4. Get some Demoken google rip photogrammetry in the mix see what this drives, it’s only 32Gb. 16 will handle this well. Buenos Aires- High detail [1/4] for Microsoft Flight Simulator | MSFS Everyone hates high detail 
EDIT: The freeware providers aren’t backing off those Gigies
