Sh5 with xp??

[TheDarkWraith]

Originally Posted by Faamecanic

If you are running a 32 bit Operating System the MAX any program will use (without some creative and possibly dangerous mucking around...search the mod forums if you want to try this) is 2 GB. Its a OS limitation.

Can be upped to 3GB very simply

so then I should strive for 64 bit xp(Im not even aware if thats out there) or w 7 then to get the most out of my ram?? But the other problem is the card then.. hmm

[TheDarkWraith]

Originally Posted by USNSRCaseySmith

so then I should strive for 64 bit xp(Im not even aware if thats out there) or w 7 then to get the most out of my ram?? But the other problem is the card then.. hmm

XP64 is available and I don't recommend it because Win764 is much better. I own every OS Microsoft has made and XP64 was a great OS in it's day but Win7 just blows it away.

Originally Posted by TheDarkWraith

XP64 is available and I don't recommend it because Win764 is much better. I own every OS Microsoft has made and XP64 was a great OS in it's day but Win7 just blows it away.

Okay, my one concern is now that since it could run it on all low with 4 gigs, would that extra 4 do any good in allowing me to inrease the graphical performance? Or is that ALL video card??

Or does it work like, the video card is what kind of graphics it can display and the ram is how much at one time and how fast??

[TheDarkWraith]

Originally Posted by USNSRCaseySmith

Okay, my one concern is now that since it could run it on all low with 4 gigs, would that extra 4 do any good in allowing me to inrease the graphical performance? Or is that ALL video card??

Or does it work like, the video card is what kind of graphics it can display and the ram is how much at one time and how fast??

The video card does the rendering. The CPU provides the needed info to the graphics card and it does it's own thing. Adding more ram is not going to allow you to increase the graphical performance per se. It all depends on what your graphics card can do (throughput, # of cores it has, what it's capabilities are, etc.).

You can have a superb video card and have lack-luster performance if your CPU can't feed the video card fast enough (the video card idles while waiting for more info from CPU).

So the only real way Id know is if I actually put the ram in it then ?

Im just going by an earlier poster who said he got it to work smooth on all low on his air (Which has a slightly slower processor) and it worked on high just stuttered, so more ram should fix this am I not correct? Only one way to find out I guess

[mobucks]

Sometimes ram can be the bottle neck to performance. Sometimes it's the CPU or GPU. Post your computer specs and we can tell you more.