Hey I was wondering say I have 1gig of ram how much is that really for a game that requires 1 gig of ram is there a way to tell how much you really have for games because I know vista hogs ram,,, is there a site like systemrequirementslab.com thats vista friendly because for example that site says I can run Doom 3 pretty well but in reality i cant because of the hogging of ram. Is there a way to know how much ram is really being hogged? thanks
how much memory does vista really take?
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1 gig of ram will run vista fine....and most games fine....but running 2 gigs of ram will make you see a noticeable difference. Also, with new DX10 games coming out, 2 gigs of ram will be the norm in computers.
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My laptop I got the day before Black Friday came with 1gb RAM and with Vista. I just upgraded to a single stick of 2gb about 6 hours ago. So far, I don't see a really noticable speed difference, however it seems to have more tolerance with more programs running, which definitely comes from the higher RAM of course.
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yeah on this backup pc im on i have 1gb pc3200 and vista. memory constantly sits at around 48% with just this IE window and winamp running.
windows aero Off btw.
runs as smooth as butter unless I try doign a ton of things at once. That's a given though.
windows aero Off btw.
runs as smooth as butter unless I try doign a ton of things at once. That's a given though.
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Its not so much processes using the memory up in vista..but more so the limitations of the 32-bit vista OS...that entire address space thing..and using the first 1GB of memory space...and having a video card with larger memory thus taking away more for available memory.
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