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Answer» Wether a person is a hard core gamer, or plays once a month, a sale is a sale. Although it's changing recently, many of the computers I've seen in adverts for lower-mid range people often had 512MB on them. By making a game that requires a minimum of 1GB would completely wipe out the possibility of lots of people potentially buying this game. Look at Doom 3. They weren't originally, but eventually they made it so the older GeForce MX cards were still supported because so many people were still using them. In the future of course, but I was refering to today's games. And releasing a 1gb minimum game would be bad, because there are still so many people with only 512MB. Yes your right, After Vistas release, Pcs made to run vista will really need to run 1gb at least and i'm sure some will offer 1.5gb/2gb as an upgrade, Soon after games with a higher minimum will be released.Quote Show me a game, available now, that has a minimum ram higher than 512MB? But some games have a 1gb reccomended, Running with 512mb is sometimes OK but won't let you GET the best out of the game.Yea , I'm Sorry , i got the Whiff of an over powering Stench.. i lost my composure for a moment. But you see , i am a Hard core Gamer, i have a SLI machine with 2 Geforce 7900's and i put almost as much money into Getting Fast ram , to Keep up with the GFX card, See if you don't have fast ram , you GFX card cant Get the Data It needs, Rendering it useless, if you have Slow ram and a massive GFX it a complete waste of money. The 2 COMPONENTS are the most important parts when it comes to gaming, and if they don't work well togeher... well its a complete waste Try Running TES4 Oblivion On 512 I have noticed in recent years processors have been becoming less and less important, whereas at one stage they were the be all and end all. Anyone else noticed this trend? I think it is becaues more of the processor's tasks have been handed down to the graphics card. For EXAMPLE, the first processors actually handled drawing the screen as well and graphics cards were optional, and all the first graphics cards did was act as a second mini processor to draw the screen, leaving the processor freed up for other tasks.And now there Even taking the Maths for Physics off the CPU and making a Card for that , soon our CPUs will do nothing.. kinda makes you wonder what the CPU does in games now don't it?Calculating the players score is VERY demanding on the processor.i think the Actually 3D environment is still Processed by the CPU and then it hands it over to the GFX card to make it Pretty, all the Wile the CPU and GFX card are Exchanging information trough the Shared Medium of ram... i wonder if slow bad small ram could cause a problem in this interchange of Vast amounts of information... just thinking out load |
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