>>216360807
Realistically the FPS in a Europa Universalis game don't matter much, it's all about the CPU so you can go at speed five.
My laptop will struggle with it, if the game runs atrociously I might have to get a new PC earlier than I expected but I don't think it will be that bad.
>>216361781
Europa Universalis V will have lots of pops in lots of different provinces, on memory that will look like a massive matrix and you want to keep all those numbers in RAM, also like any other game the CPU needs a representation of the 2D images and 3D models that then will ship to the GPU so the GPU can render an image, both of those things obviously require lot of space in RAM.
I think those are the two biggest things that will occupy space in RAM.
>>216362219
The minimum is 16, 32 is probably there because in some occasions the game might need more than 16 so it will start doing swaps, so performance at 32 will be better overall but probably for 90% of the game the game will be equally as fast with 16 as with 32.