Aero and 1 gig

disabled the pagefile, so everything in memory. 2 Gb seems is just not enough, 3 is ideal believ me.

1 gb is definitly not enough, sure you can manage, but you need more, certainly is you use Sata drives.

François

hello all,

i bought my notebook first with 1GB RAM. Because of the fact, that i want to play games on my laptop i bought additional 1 GB for it. In windows i noticed no diffrenece of performance. In the games and programs (for example, Visual Studio, SQL Server) i was happy to have the additional 1 GB. (Dell M1710, Core 2 Duo T7400 with 2,16 GHz, GeForce 7900 GTX with 512 MB, former 1GB RAM now 2 GB RAM)

On my old notebook i installed Windows Vista x32. In normal office using (surfing in the internet, writing text with office, using messenger, hearing music) it was definitly ok and not slow! (Asus M6800M, Intel Pentium M with 1,5 GHz, Ati Raedon 9600 with 64 MB, 512!! MB RAM)

In both configuration i cant notice problems with Aero.

with best regards from germany.
Nico

On my laptop, I have 1 gig of Ram installed, and it works quite well for me, even with Aero on. I do some gaming, and quite often browse the internet, but my computer is still running good.

However, if you can get 2 gigs, I recommend it. I am thinking of getting 2 gigs of Ram myself.

On my workstation, with 8gigs of memory Vista still keeps 1-1.5gigs of the swapfile in use.

Swapfile allocation, by itself, is not an indication of how much RAM is enough. I have no idea what exactly Vista is putting in the paging file... but everyone needs to remember that Vista has a radically different approach to resource consumption that previous versions of Windows.

As to the parent's question: I honestly don't feel that 1gig of RAM is enough for any real use of Vista. With that little memory, you're going to be actively using your swapfile. Even if the system is only used for little-old-lady web surfing and emailing her grandkids, I recommend a bare-minimum of 1.5gig. 2gigs seems to be the sweet-spot for multitasking and the like.

It depends on what you want to do on your computer. If you're just the average home user, than it should work out fine.
Anything beyond that, like photo management, extreme gaming or animation should run at least on 2 gigs, 4 is better and 8 is the best.

2 gigs is best.

Basically the way windows vista allocates memory is by sharing a decent sum of your physical ram w/ your video card... i have a GeForce 8600 GT 256mb ddr3, it shows in properties as 1gb, 256vram / 768 shared... Basically, it learns to use what you give it... you might be susceptible to occasional slow downs where it might take a milisecond for the window to drag or something like that...but it should work. However, don't bother using Dreamscene until you can get more memory, it'll eat up your ram like you won't believe...

i currently have 2gb pc2-5300, typically i have about 40%-50% physical memory in use by windows and misc. background apps... i've only seen it go as high as maybe 70%... get another gig and you should be pleasently surprised... it's all about finding the bottleneck, and w/ vista, you want to eliminate them for the best experience possible.

nice to see some guys can actually USE "dreamscene". I installed it succesfully some 5 times and that is it. It does not show in the installed programs. Furthermore Vista keeps telling me there is one upgrade available. I gave up on dreamscene.

François

What is 'DreamScene"?

I agree w/crito the restore points kill your storage, ax all the shortcuts
and run disk cleanup. also check firewalls and or security applications.
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Thanks / Mikerrr


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