To run vista you will need fairly high end hardware, is your machine good enough now? - Page 2

germanjulian · May 17, 2006, 12:32 AM

well it will run it but if it eats so much ram that my 2gig feel like less then 1GB when I game vista will never touch my current rig

BWX · May 17, 2006, 05:52 AM

By the time it comes out my rig will be fine I am sure- but that doesn't mean I will be running any bloatware OS on my gaming rig.

**Vikingod** · May 17, 2006, 06:39 AM

wont be buying the new OS for at least a year, but ym current system is more than enough.

swimtech · May 17, 2006, 08:19 AM

No way on the current desktop machine - great excuse to build a new one early next year after the dual core battles settle a bit and the mainboards mature some...

The Mac should do ok...

niceguyrichy · May 17, 2006, 08:42 AM

nope, not a hope I would say.

not worried, I'm happy enough with xp pro atm, can't think of any reason why I'd want vista for now.

hazeldene · May 17, 2006, 11:30 AM

Do you really think that micro$oft will release an operating system that will require a massive machine spec to be run on?

I dont think so, it would be against all business logic. I would presume that it will run on all but the most basic of setups, but some of the features would be disabled. Saving these for the higher spec'd machines.

I also would be very doubtful that it would require a DX10 Class graphics card as nobody has one of those yet, meaning that on release nobody would be able to run it!!

Why have Vista when you can have LINUX anyway?

lol.... watch those sheep!!

***Zardon*** · May 17, 2006, 11:34 AM

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Originally Posted by hazeldene

Do you really think that micro$oft will release an operating system that will require a massive machine spec to be run on?

I dont think so, it would be against all business logic

Well when they released windows XP, the requirements then were quite high too if you look at it in hindsight. double the memory of Windows 98. that caused quite a fuss at the time.

dipstick · May 17, 2006, 11:44 AM

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Originally Posted by hazeldene

I also would be very doubtful that it would require a DX10 Class graphics card as nobody has one of those yet, meaning that on release nobody would be able to run it!!

Nah, it doesnt require a DX10 card to run but DX10 itself is exclusive to Vista. Also there quite a few nice games that will require Vista and/or DX10 -Halo 2, Alan Wake, and Hellgate London are just a few that come to mind.

hazeldene · May 17, 2006, 11:48 AM

You're right it needed 64mb to run when 98's min spec was 32, but most machines were running more than that at the time anyway, it was the older P1 and P2 class machines that had the problems. Looking at some of the replies here, you would think that min requirements will be 2 gig memory, dual core processor DX10 class gfx etc... come on get real guys. I suspect that min specs will be around 1.4ghz cpu, 1024mb memory & 128mb DX8 class graphics card.

you will probably need at least a 300gb hdd though to get all the bloat on there!!

Pluvious · May 17, 2006, 12:33 PM

June's issue of Maximum PC has a large feature article on this very question. Are You Ready for Vista? Here's the last page:

Sandok · May 17, 2006, 12:53 PM

According to that I should get a 4... w00t!

BWX · May 17, 2006, 01:11 PM

5 for me by the looks of it..

niceguyrichy · May 17, 2006, 01:14 PM

i might actually scrape a 4 based on that..

wonder what the 2.8g 1mb l2 P4 and X800 gto I just built my gf would do?

Judas · May 17, 2006, 01:38 PM

guess i'd be a 6?

PangingJr · May 17, 2006, 02:21 PM

i'll never know until i actually use it.
if i find Vista works better than XP and it�s worth the money, i think, i'll like to use it. so the only real requirement is money.
if i have money i'll upgrade my computer's hardwares or just buy a whole new computer hardware if it can make the Vista runs even better.
if i don't have money, i guess i'll have to forget about it for the time being at least.
but i don't think i will be using it on a minimum requirements machine as i think it won't functioning well in the real world anyway and just keep using the XP till i can upgrade...