The Hangout: I didn't need to see Harry Potter's wand.

[Cosmic]

I ran XP with 385MB SD-RAM 133MHz for over a year. It was fine.

I've ran XP with 256MB of DDR RAM.

It's liveable.

Liveable but slow. Dunno really. My dad always complained about how laggy it was on 256mb, but we upgraded to 512mb and XP ran so much better it was just ridiculous.

[Panda Man]

Xp ran fine with 256mb, and vista will run fine with 512mb . Pending you get those performance updates though Now you'll only be able to efficiently run Internet Explorer, Outlook, Word, Excel and minesweeper with only 512mb of RAM in vista, but still it will run well. Vista on my PC only actually uses about 300mb of RAM after startup.

[crusher]

Because I'm a nice guy I'm uploading a track from the remastered Rockman ZX Advent Soundtrack (ZXA Tunes). It's one of my favorite tracks. Can't wait for the game to be released!

http://rapidshare.com/files/53173555...stiny.mp3.html

[Panda Man]

Liveable but slow. Dunno really. My dad always complained about how laggy it was on 256mb, but we upgraded to 512mb and XP ran so much better it was just ridiculous.

that is obviously not an out of box installation then, XP will run fine with 256mb. What all did he have running?

[Evans]

In WA3 you couldn't buy berries and there were no trees. Instead there was a secret garden where you could grow additional berries. Only once you find the garden of course. Much much later into the game.

Had the game, loved it, but seem to have forgotten... I remember the garden, which was virtually useless. I know I used magic to heal myself... Can't remember how it got replenished, though.

[Cosmic]

I had XP on my old PC, which had 128MB of ram, and it ran pretty well. Especially compared to Windows M....Windows...Windows ME. /is sick

Oh man, don't get me started on Windows ME. They took 98 and removed anything that you might actually want to use. I had so many old games that wouldn't work because the DOS mode was inexplicably left out.

[Inferno.]

XP I was running it for a while with 128mb of RAM.

When people say you need blah RAM to run this. It's all lise!

I'm reckoning Vista will be live-with-able with 512.

but I'm going to ensure I get 1GB, for my XP needs.

[skullpoker]

Xp ran fine with 256mb, and vista will run fine with 512mb . Pending you get those performance updates though Now you'll only be able to efficiently run Internet Explorer, Outlook, Word, Excel and minesweeper with only 512mb of RAM in vista, but still it will run well. Vista on my PC only actually uses about 300mb of RAM after startup.

Remember MS-DOS, back when you were lucky to have 1MB of RAM??? Now Vista you need over 300MB... Gotta get back to hunter/gatherer SOON

[Evans]

Well that's what people are saying if you want to get the most out of it. Remember how bad XP ran with anything less than 512mb?

Pfffft, runs fine on my machine.


crusher: III [Rockman Zero 2 Soundtrack ~ REMASTERED TRACKS ROCKMAN ZERO - Idea (Disc 2)] - Awakening Will

[crusher]

Had the game, loved it, but seem to have forgotten... I remember the garden, which was virtually useless. I know I used magic to heal myself... Can't remember how it got replenished, though.

The garden was pretty useful actually. I rarely used magic to heal myself because I needed the magic for other stuff. At one point in the game I had some real issues trying to survive a boss fight just because my berries were used up. Once I found out about the garden, I started growing berries like crazy.

Loved it too. Awesomeingly awesome game.

[Mikey]

Oh man, don't get me started on Windows ME. They took 98 and removed anything that you might actually want to use. I had so many old games that wouldn't work because the DOS mode was inexplicably left out.

Windows ME was the first Windows OS I used. Pitty me? That OS was horrible. I had BSOD so many times. I used to format like once a week.

XP I was running it for a while with 128mb of RAM.

When people say you need blah RAM to run this. It's all lise!

I'm reckoning Vista will be live-with-able with 512.

but I'm going to ensure I get 1GB, for my XP needs.

Yep.

[crusher]

Pfffft, runs fine on my machine.


crusher: III [Rockman Zero 2 Soundtrack ~ REMASTERED TRACKS ROCKMAN ZERO - Idea (Disc 2)] - Awakening Will

Win! I love the Remastered tracks. The track I posted above is from the ZX series Remastered Tracks, if you didn't get that. ZXA got way better music than ZX. Not better than Z2 though. Awakening Will is lovely.

[Inferno.]

http://www.epforums.org/hangout-crea...ml#post1002538

Whoa shit..

Sapphire ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail

£100 including VAT. :O

[Cosmic]

that is obviously not an out of box installation then, XP will run fine with 256mb. What all did he have running?

As far as I know he only had AVG running in the background. No idea what he did with it to be honest, we ran spyware scans quite often and usually they'd all come up clean. We even formatted the hard drive every few months and it would run fine for about a week before he claimed I'd done something wrong and broken it, despite him being the only person in the house who actually used that computer. All I know is that it sped up considerably when we increased the RAM. You'd be waiting about ten minutes for the thing to shut down, after that it was pretty much instant. I didn't even format the hard-drive before the upgrade.

[crusher]

http://www.epforums.org/hangout-crea...ml#post1002538

Whoa shit..

Sapphire ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail

£100 including VAT. :O

But are Sapphire cards good? I've heard both positive and negative comments...