How much RAM are you running on Vista - Page 3

intrepid · **8th February 2007, 09:18 PM**

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Originally Posted by ExtremePC

Games? I didn't know they had released any games for vista yet?

That was a joke, no? Anyway... yes - I can play every game that I own on Vista, from "Battlefield 1942" to the "Battle for Middle Earth 2", they all play as well as they did on XP, and in some cases, better on Vista.

pantonious · **8th February 2007, 09:25 PM**

there are a few games made for Vista...

Like MS Flight Sim X and Company of Heroes...

and so far i have only found one game that will not play on Vista...thats Final Fantasy 7!!!

intrepid · **8th February 2007, 09:28 PM**

@pantonius - You're talking about the Games For Windows program. This means that they are tested to work on Vista x32 and x64 (as well as XP).

Great idea really, seeing this logo means I know it'll work with my Windows Vista x64.

pantonious · **8th February 2007, 09:30 PM**

yes...that was what we were talking about, right???

i never said they were EXCLUSIVELY for Vista...

you think they made the games, and were just lucky that it worked under Vista so they stuck the logo on there???

mick5au · **8th February 2007, 11:59 PM**

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Originally Posted by intrepid

That was a joke, no? Anyway... yes - I can play every game that I own on Vista, from "Battlefield 1942" to the "Battle for Middle Earth 2", they all play as well as they did on XP, and in some cases, better on Vista.

How about "savage"? That fails with a "requires OpenGL 1.2" message box.

I have 1GB with Vista Home premium and have no problems. I do have a 256MB Readyboost disk (it was $10 all right :-))

vlad · **9th February 2007, 05:30 AM**

Croc and bella ,
Gentleman, you will never agree anyway, so what's the point of arguing?

I think that we need to ask Mike to create a special forum called Arena where we could argue our differences

Back to the topic:
I am using 1 GB of RAM, but have mentioned that HDD is used more than on 2005, so will get another 1GB today

mattylees__ · **9th February 2007, 06:20 AM**

Talking about games, I am looking fwd to halo 2 being released in march for Vista only

I run 1gb ram on vista though, could do with some more but it runs pretty sweet atm

logifuse · **9th February 2007, 09:53 AM**

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Originally Posted by TiggerK

It uses RAM a lot better than XP, and wants as much as you can give it, especially when you've got multiple apps going.

MS Exchange Server (SQL too?) does this (at least 5.5 did). It supposedly says, "I'll hang on to the RAM & pass it out when it's needed." Problem is (well, was) that it just wouldn't release it & you'd be using the pagefile despite the massive amount of RAM in the server. In Exchange 5.5, a reg hack was found to limit it & it worked so much better. Without the hack, the server would be so unresponsive.

One thing I use in old low end machines with XP on them is RAM Idle. You can get a significant boost in machines with a lowish amount of RAM (usually something like 256 or 384MB).

I wonder if anyone's tried something like RAM Idle in Vista?

Justin

logifuse · **9th February 2007, 09:57 AM**

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Originally Posted by intrepid

You're talking about the Games For Windows program.

Is that like toys for guns? You hand in your copy of Windows & get a free game?

Justin

supafly · **9th February 2007, 10:09 AM**

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Talking about games, I am looking fwd to halo 2 being released in march for Vista only

Taken their sweet bloody time havnt they. lolol. The thing has been discontinued for the original Xbox. Come to think of it all Xbox games are on their way out now

Means i can sell more 360's

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Ive never really like the Halo games anyway.