During loading, which took a fair bit of time which I suppouse is normal considering the modcount, the RAM usage climbed to 8.2GB, almost starving my system to death. After I reached the main menu it lowered down to 6.7GB just waiting there. Is this normal or is something messed up? I did grab that zipfile with various fixes and put the unzipped ones in the mod folder properly, and I got research pal to not group by tech stage.

Does the fact that I'm loading from an SSD instead of a HDD affect it? Or will it start freeing up memory once I start a world? Are there alot of purely graphical mods or pawn customization option mods I can give the boot to without reducing gameplay elements?