It prevents you from playing at all.
What a load of shit lol I knew the recommended specs were gonna turn out to be a crock of lies to but to stop it launching? Fucking hell.
What about all the other stuff people run in the background chewing up RAM? Just having Chrome, Steam, Skype, Spotify and Teamspeak open and and my memory usage is at 5.86GB before I even start a game. If I close off Chrome before I start I end up at 3.27GB.
That seems awfully high. I'd be running something similar with Firefox and I'm nowhere near that sort of usage. Closer to 2.5GB for all that.