vista upgrades

[zack_rage]

hey guys just want to know how much memory or clock speed does vista requires for stability and for future upgrade of my os(still xp) does vista still in beta? just curious about vista? maybe to try the os

thanks!

[IronAces]

Vista is released afaik. check your local online computer store for prices. i'm running 2gb of memory at the moment, i would suggest at least 1gb, however, it will run fine on 1gb memory, from my experience anyway, however i wouldnt like to think of the performance going below that.

[zack_rage]

do you think vista can run on 512 memory? what do you think 1gb seems high

does it have compatability issues on hardware specs? tying to ask only

[MishY]

Hi,

You can find the min requirements here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/capable.mspx

[IronAces]

i think you could run it fine on 512mb, just without all the features running

[zack_rage]

ok thanks try to ugrade in future

[khanibal]

My buddy has it on his laptop -- it's a P4 like 2ghz with 512 ram and it runs decently fine. He cannot use Aero though since his video card doesn't support it. If you want the nifty 3d stuff you'll have to make sure your video card can support it.

Needs this:

-supports WDDM driver
-Supports DX9 with pixel shader 2.0
-Supports 32 bits per pixel

[30111987]

I just upgraded my laptop. I had vista on 512mb and it took ages to startup and shutdown. Once it was on the desktop it was OK (almost as fast as XP) but it certainly is much much better with more ram.

I'd suggest 1GB to run it without aero and even more if you are going to be running aero.

[PCCam]

Will you be able to run Halo 2 for PC without Visa OS?

[30111987]

Will you be able to run Halo 2 for PC without Visa OS?

Short answer: no

But you could buy an Xbox and Halo 2 for less than the cost of a Vista license ;)

[Pi rules]

512 is the minimum you should have to run Vista. I'd recommend at least 1 GB, though. Still, I ran Vista with VMware Server (free) with 760 MB of RAM and it worked fairly well considering it was a virtual installation. When I dual booted with it it worked well enough with 1 GB, but certain memory-hogging applications may require more.

But you could buy an Xbox and Halo 2 for less than the cost of a Vista license
Maybe Ultimate Retail, but OEMs are much cheaper. :)

[agithegreat]

Halo2??? Episode one and the original halo 2 both run fine on XP, maybe ME even.... however, i do believe episode 2 does requires vista