Vista and RAM usage - leave some for the games

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Not much leftover memory for all graphics on ES4 - even with all of the
visuals turned off. Is there any way that Vista can possibly ease up, or is
purchasing more memory the only answer?


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John

PC: (XPS Gen 1 800FSB) laptop
Mem 1 gb
processor P4 3.4HT
Video ATI 9800 256 MB
Vista RC1 build 5600/5728 dual
Base score 4.3
 
JJ said:
Not much leftover memory for all graphics on ES4 - even with all of the
visuals turned off. Is there any way that Vista can possibly ease up, or
is
purchasing more memory the only answer?


--
John

PC: (XPS Gen 1 800FSB) laptop
Mem 1 gb
processor P4 3.4HT
Video ATI 9800 256 MB
Vista RC1 build 5600/5728 dual
Base score 4.3
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It is fairly specific that, for a premium version of Vista (Ultimate
qualifies), 1 GB of RAM is the recommended minimum specification. Remember,
when XP was introduced, the minimum recommended RAM was 64MB, and it is a
rare person that believes XP doesn't need more than the minimum to run well.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/capable.mspx
 
JJ said:
Not much leftover memory for all graphics on ES4 - even with all of the
visuals turned off. Is there any way that Vista can possibly ease up, or is
purchasing more memory the only answer?
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What you on about? Doesn't use that much. Needs 1GB at least though
IMO.



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Vista uses a fair chunk of RAM for its SuperFetch pre-caching. When running
a game, it should turn down SuperFetch to allocate more memory to the game.
As they say in the BSD world, "free memory is wasted memory!"
 
I think more ram is the easiest and overall best answer. I did do some
tweaking on my system, to cut down on the amount of ram Vista gobbled up, at
least on bootup. On boot, my system was using around 450 MB of ram. I turned
off a series of services that I don't believe I'll be using, Like tablet
support, network location awareness, and so forth and got it down to 311MB.
Still about 100MB more than XP uses on boot.

Of course, I'm still tweaking around with Vista, so it's hard to know if I
turned off too many services, so it will probably be a few months and alot
of trial and error to figure out what I do and don't need.

On a side note, I do have 2GB of ram in my systems to test with, especially
for gaming, it seems 1GB is just not going to be enough anymore
 
Too be honest... you should probably have 2 GB of RAM installed in your
system. Currently I have 4 GB. You can NEVER have too much RAM. NEVER.
 
I've got 2.9Ghz Pentium 4 processor, 1 GB RAM, 160GB HDD and 256 MB Graphics
card and vista won't start past the welcome display. Am I supposed to run in
safe mode until January?
I seriously doubt whether consumers will bother getting Vista. XP's good
enough as it is why would anyone bother?
 
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