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Originally Posted by CaptainHaplo
I have to disagree on the ram issue. I am running SH4 on a machine WAY below the minimum specs - and I run it fine. Although I don't know it 512 would be enough.
My machine is a 1.5Ghz AMD (below minimum spec of 2GHz), 768Megs of Ram (below minimum of 1Gig) and a ATI 9800 Pro (that meets recommended specs). My rig runs fine - on mid level detail at that. Only time I have performance issues is when I go above 2k time compression or when a torp hits - then I get a couple of seconds pause. Granted - OS tweaking helps a bit also.
With the specs you gave - the question is what is the chip on your ATI card? If its 9600 or above - you should be set with it. I dont know how it would run on half a gig of memory - expect long load times (which I have as well) - but if its able to swap enough info it should work. You may see some performance issues - but it would likely run.
Good hunting - in either pond!
Captain Haplo
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Well, the only time I see sh4.exe using less than 1gb is when it is loading and slowly building up to that point. In translation, that means your 768 is not sufficient to hold the game in ram, much less the OS, tuned or not. This means you will swap to disk.
That you are stable with low ram simply means your machine is in good shape.
Stability aside, I think performance is a different story, and that you would be astonished how much better it would run on your system with your ram doubled to 1.5g.