Attached is a screen shot of the game booting. I have 16 gigs of ram, and unless I close down everything, the game crashes on start up. This ram is released after loading, and I can re open anything I like. I have seen that Ashes front loads all assets, which I see in game, little loading times, but why does it use over 7 gigs, when even big campaign maps it's barely hitting 4. Graphically my settings aren't super pretty, which makes me wonder why this is. It should be noted that the game is on steam, and the library is on a 2 disk raid, not sure if it's causing issues(being it really should only see it as 1 drive).
Don't see any screen shots.
What GPU you got? What OS? Are you playing DX11 or DX12?
Are you playing with any switches when the game launches?
I don't see anything wrong with the game using that much, then releasing it when you exit the game.
P.S, never disable virtual memory, it is used by lots of things, and windows is smart enough to only use it when it needs it.