Vista Gaming (a resource hog)?

[blackentangled]

RECENTLY we managed to spend some time using a Vista machine. The machine had Athlon 4000+ and 2 GB of memory with Geforce 7800 GTX card. We installed a game and we didn’t have anything else than Far Cry at the moment. We wanted to check how much memory you actually will need to play games on Vista. We know it is a beta, but it will at least give you a feeling what could you expect from the final one.

 

We moved the community with our story where we said you need up to 800 MB memory just to run Vista. You can read it here and we have to say that we do know the difference between page file and the actual physical memory, but trust me you need 1GB memory just to work in Word or Paint using vista. People were claiming that the machine used 400MB of physical memory but it will work like a beaten horse with 512MB. It works slow even with 2GB.

 

source http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30503

 

woot is it too early to say? or needs more room for improvement?

[xequence]

I think it will be slightly better then that for the final release. It will take people awhile to start using it for games.

[spclffred]

its way to early give it some time, trust me

[dponmac]

yeah, I wouldn't read too much into that. got another 7 or 8 monthes until we see the final product..