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I know the question has been asked in the Vista reference thread, so I am creating a new thread where a discussion can take place.
Do you believe that 1GB is really the minimum requirement to Run vista (with Aero), or do you believe that 2GB is really the realistic minimum?
After messing around with Vista for a week I can personally say that 1GB is not going to be enough to do anything other than 1 or 2 programs at a time. Multitasking is going to be a serious nightmare and good luck playing some video games while listening to music in the background without 2GB of RAM and constant hard drive grinding (virtual memory anybody?).
Just sitting on the desktop with almost everything gutted out of Vista other than the sidebar 4 gadgets, mIRC, my antivirus and IE open I am still using 570MB of RAM. After I play guild wars and close it out, this increases up to the mid 600's because Catalyst Control Center is then loaded (right now it's off because CCC is a piece of crap and doesn't always stay loaded in Vista, woohoo for bugs!).
When I get into Guild Wars without any heapsize changes, my RAM usage while in guild wars is well over 1.1GB, if I have music playing in the background or any other programs up on my secondary monitor while I am playing this can increase to 1.2GB or even 1.3GB during level changes.
A friend of mine running Vista business has 1GB of RAM and is constantly having issues. He says he can't even listen to music while he's working in his photo editing program without getting massive memory errors and having his computer crash.
I strongly recommend that if you plan on buying Vista or upgrading to Vista that you have at LEAST 2GB of ram as the realistic minimum. 1GB will hardly get you by, 1.5 could be uncomfortable if you multitask and 2GB is just perfect (as of right now).
IF anyone has any input otherwise, dicuss ahead, this thread is your stomping gounds!
Do you believe that 1GB is really the minimum requirement to Run vista (with Aero), or do you believe that 2GB is really the realistic minimum?
After messing around with Vista for a week I can personally say that 1GB is not going to be enough to do anything other than 1 or 2 programs at a time. Multitasking is going to be a serious nightmare and good luck playing some video games while listening to music in the background without 2GB of RAM and constant hard drive grinding (virtual memory anybody?).
Just sitting on the desktop with almost everything gutted out of Vista other than the sidebar 4 gadgets, mIRC, my antivirus and IE open I am still using 570MB of RAM. After I play guild wars and close it out, this increases up to the mid 600's because Catalyst Control Center is then loaded (right now it's off because CCC is a piece of crap and doesn't always stay loaded in Vista, woohoo for bugs!).
When I get into Guild Wars without any heapsize changes, my RAM usage while in guild wars is well over 1.1GB, if I have music playing in the background or any other programs up on my secondary monitor while I am playing this can increase to 1.2GB or even 1.3GB during level changes.
A friend of mine running Vista business has 1GB of RAM and is constantly having issues. He says he can't even listen to music while he's working in his photo editing program without getting massive memory errors and having his computer crash.
I strongly recommend that if you plan on buying Vista or upgrading to Vista that you have at LEAST 2GB of ram as the realistic minimum. 1GB will hardly get you by, 1.5 could be uncomfortable if you multitask and 2GB is just perfect (as of right now).
IF anyone has any input otherwise, dicuss ahead, this thread is your stomping gounds!