how many new games require 1gig+ of ram?

FrenchTart · 23 Nov 2006 at 21:50

Good enough yeah...but also a waste for a graphics card of that calibre...

dave00 · 23 Nov 2006 at 23:31

I play BF2 + BF2142 with an X800 GTO2 LE and 512mb ram and they perform very well imho.

FrankJH · 24 Nov 2006 at 08:29

As stated above as soon as 64bit OS's are common 4GB of ram will undoubtedly be amongst the things we will have to consider to get max benefit

At the moment however there is no advantage at all above 2Gb

HangTime · 24 Nov 2006 at 22:02

I'd be suprised if we see any benefit from >2gig RAM until 2008, at least on WinXP.

Not sure how Vista will shake things up in terms of memory requirements. I'm guessing it is gonna have a pretty hefty footprint (200meg+ on boot).

FrankJH · 24 Nov 2006 at 23:33

HangTime said:
I'd be suprised if we see any benefit from >2gig RAM until 2008, at least on WinXP.

Not sure how Vista will shake things up in terms of memory requirements. I'm guessing it is gonna have a pretty hefty footprint (200meg+ on boot).

Thats what I was stating Win XP is only 32 bit , so you wont see any benefit about 2GB - unless you count Win XP 64 bit but the drivers for this are still not complete for everything.... and most games arent optimised

Vista will come in 32bit and 64 bit varieties also , so depending on the version you run you still may not see any benfit over 2GB of RAM