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Anonymous   08-29-2008 at 05:12:55 PM

should i get more ram for Vista. i currently have 2gig and i want to max settings on COD4 it works fine on XP but i know how vista takes up more memory.

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ilovebarny   08-29-2008 at 05:36:04 PM
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i would suggest if you do upgrade dont go more than 3gb ram. if you put 4gb in your system your not going get all four gigs anyway. although ram is cheap. i dont know why you would have any problems with your setup though. i run a 2.6Ghz core two duo, 2gb of ram, and a 8600gt, and i can max out COD4 at 1680X1050 resolution. with vista 32bit.


Message edited by ilovebarny on 08-29-2008 at 05:58:20 PM
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vertigo_2000   08-29-2008 at 05:51:03 PM
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Depends on his version of Vista. I don't see where he said he has 32 bit version.

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ilovebarny   08-29-2008 at 05:53:50 PM
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true. i just assumed because most people that have 64bit os say it.

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rochin   08-29-2008 at 05:57:21 PM
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Yes getting more ram in Vista is a good idea. I went from 3GB in Vista Ultimate 64 to 8GB and still noticed a difference. A good spot for Vista is 4GB. With all the updates and such, I do not know why people are still using XP.

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dtq   08-30-2008 at 10:27:15 AM
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4gb for vista is a sweet spot, I found quite a difference between 2gb and 4gb. I now have 8gb so I could turn off the pagefile completely, Ive had the pagefile off for a long time now with no problems, no more disk swapping for me.

On the subject of disks, I Should have my SSD drive monday as well, am going to be very interested to see what that does for performance in mmorpgs, and system boot speed etc. :)

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sarwar_r87   08-30-2008 at 03:32:49 PM
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i played COD4 (max settings@1440x900) with 2GB of RAM on vista and got 45fps. i used 9600GT. i dont see y wou should have a problem with 2GB.definately 4GB ram is goin to help things but i dont see y u need u get more ram to play COD4.whats ur fps......also, i noticed that the latest driver (177.xx) seems to degrade the cards performance......i use 175.19.....

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