hardware requirements

Is the hardware of my 3-4 year-old pc good enough for Windows Vista?
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium 4 2.4 Ghz Chipset: Intel(R) 845G Chipset Grahpics: 64Mb Intel(R) 82845G Graphics Controller HDD: UATA/100 (1gb/s) RAM: 760mb (512+256)
I'm very worried about my display card now. It has a very low performance.
Thanks in advance.

Your hardware seem to be good to run Windows Vista... but without aero.
Your graphics controler must support DirectX9 and Pix shader and have at least 128Mb.
Best Regards / Cordialement, Sébastien FERRAND Consultant Indépendant Microsoft Visual C# MVP http://blogs.developpeur.org/sebmafate
Christopher a écrit :

Is the hardware of my 3-4 year-old pc good enough for Windows Vista?
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium 4 2.4 Ghz Chipset: Intel(R) 845G Chipset Grahpics: 64Mb Intel(R) 82845G Graphics Controller HDD: UATA/100 (1gb/s) RAM: 760mb (512+256)
I'm very worried about my display card now. It has a very low performance.
Thanks in advance.

Generally, the computer should run fine as it's above the system requirements. As Sébastien said, it might not get the Glass working, but everything else should be fine.
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--: Original message follows :-- "Sébastien FERRAND" wrote in message

Your hardware seem to be good to run Windows Vista... but without aero.
Your graphics controler must support DirectX9 and Pix shader and have at least 128Mb.
Best Regards / Cordialement, Sébastien FERRAND Consultant Indépendant Microsoft Visual C# MVP http://blogs.developpeur.org/sebmafate
Christopher a écrit : Is the hardware of my 3-4 year-old pc good enough for Windows Vista?
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium 4 2.4 Ghz Chipset: Intel(R) 845G Chipset Grahpics: 64Mb Intel(R) 82845G Graphics Controller HDD: UATA/100 (1gb/s) RAM: 760mb (512+256)
I'm very worried about my display card now. It has a very low performance.
Thanks in advance.

Sorry, I left something. It should be a 60GB HDD but there's only about 16-17 GB of free space.
"Christopher" wrote:

Is the hardware of my 3-4 year-old pc good enough for Windows Vista?
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium 4 2.4 Ghz Chipset: Intel(R) 845G Chipset Grahpics: 64Mb Intel(R) 82845G Graphics Controller HDD: UATA/100 (1gb/s) RAM: 760mb (512+256)
I'm very worried about my display card now. It has a very low performance.
Thanks in advance.

The specs are good, I just don't know about graphics, since Windows Vista requires a minimum of 1 GB dual channel memory for onboard graphics with 512 MBs dedicated to the system. As for the hard disk space, Windows Vista BETA 2 needs a minimum 10.1 GBs, Vista uses about 8 GBs of that, so make sure you have substantial disk space if you plan on testing it thoroughly with third party applications installed since those will eat up diskspace too. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Christopher" wrote in message

Sorry, I left something. It should be a 60GB HDD but there's only about 16-17 GB of free space.
"Christopher" wrote:
Is the hardware of my 3-4 year-old pc good enough for Windows Vista?
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium 4 2.4 Ghz Chipset: Intel(R) 845G Chipset Grahpics: 64Mb Intel(R) 82845G Graphics Controller HDD: UATA/100 (1gb/s) RAM: 760mb (512+256)
I'm very worried about my display card now. It has a very low performance.
Thanks in advance.

Does your computer have an AGP slot? If so, get a new video card. (An FX-5200 or an Ati Radeon 9500 is all you need to get Aero glass.) I wouldn't worry too much if you're using AGP 4x or 8x. If you don't have an AGP slot, you could have some problems. While I've heard of some success stories using a PCI video card that works with Aero Glass, I don't know if it would actually work. If push comes to shove, you could give it a try if you don't have an AGP slot, but I don't know if it would actually work or not. "Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote in message

The specs are good, I just don't know about graphics, since Windows Vista requires a minimum of 1 GB dual channel memory for onboard graphics with 512 MBs dedicated to the system. As for the hard disk space, Windows Vista BETA 2 needs a minimum 10.1 GBs, Vista uses about 8 GBs of that, so make sure you have substantial disk space if you plan on testing it thoroughly with third party applications installed since those will eat up diskspace too. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Christopher" wrote in message Sorry, I left something. It should be a 60GB HDD but there's only about 16-17 GB of free space.
"Christopher" wrote:
Is the hardware of my 3-4 year-old pc good enough for Windows Vista?
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium 4 2.4 Ghz Chipset: Intel(R) 845G Chipset Grahpics: 64Mb Intel(R) 82845G Graphics Controller HDD: UATA/100 (1gb/s) RAM: 760mb (512+256)
I'm very worried about my display card now. It has a very low performance.
Thanks in advance.

I would find out first if the AGP slot on the board is 4x or 8x, since I have been told, and 8x card in 4x slot can cause damage. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Travis King" wrote in message

Does your computer have an AGP slot? If so, get a new video card. (An FX-5200 or an Ati Radeon 9500 is all you need to get Aero glass.) I wouldn't worry too much if you're using AGP 4x or 8x. If you don't have an AGP slot, you could have some problems. While I've heard of some success stories using a PCI video card that works with Aero Glass, I don't know if it would actually work. If push comes to shove, you could give it a try if you don't have an AGP slot, but I don't know if it would actually work or not. "Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote in message The specs are good, I just don't know about graphics, since Windows Vista requires a minimum of 1 GB dual channel memory for onboard graphics with 512 MBs dedicated to the system. As for the hard disk space, Windows Vista BETA 2 needs a minimum 10.1 GBs, Vista uses about 8 GBs of that, so make sure you have substantial disk space if you plan on testing it thoroughly with third party applications installed since those will eat up diskspace too. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Christopher" wrote in message Sorry, I left something. It should be a 60GB HDD but there's only about 16-17 GB of free space.
"Christopher" wrote:
Is the hardware of my 3-4 year-old pc good enough for Windows Vista?
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium 4 2.4 Ghz Chipset: Intel(R) 845G Chipset Grahpics: 64Mb Intel(R) 82845G Graphics Controller HDD: UATA/100 (1gb/s) RAM: 760mb (512+256)
I'm very worried about my display card now. It has a very low performance.
Thanks in advance.

Well... not necessarily. I asked a friend from Hardware Labs to help me get a suitable video card for Vista (at the time, was build 5308) - and gave me the following advice:
4x card in a 4x AGP slot works fine. 8x card in a 8x AGP slot works fine. 4x card in an 8x AGP slot works fine - but only runs at 4x because it's the max. the card will go. 8x card in an 4x AGP slot works fine - but only runs at 4x because it's the max. the slot will go.
So they will work - but will only go the maximum speed of the actual device :o) Hope this makes sense.
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--: Original message follows :-- "Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote in message

I would find out first if the AGP slot on the board is 4x or 8x, since I have been told, and 8x card in 4x slot can cause damage. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Travis King" wrote in message Does your computer have an AGP slot? If so, get a new video card. (An FX-5200 or an Ati Radeon 9500 is all you need to get Aero glass.) I wouldn't worry too much if you're using AGP 4x or 8x. If you don't have an AGP slot, you could have some problems. While I've heard of some success stories using a PCI video card that works with Aero Glass, I don't know if it would actually work. If push comes to shove, you could give it a try if you don't have an AGP slot, but I don't know if it would actually work or not. "Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote in message The specs are good, I just don't know about graphics, since Windows Vista requires a minimum of 1 GB dual channel memory for onboard graphics with 512 MBs dedicated to the system. As for the hard disk space, Windows Vista BETA 2 needs a minimum 10.1 GBs, Vista uses about 8 GBs of that, so make sure you have substantial disk space if you plan on testing it thoroughly with third party applications installed since those will eat up diskspace too. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Christopher" wrote in message Sorry, I left something. It should be a 60GB HDD but there's only about 16-17 GB of free space.
"Christopher" wrote:
Is the hardware of my 3-4 year-old pc good enough for Windows Vista?
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium 4 2.4 Ghz Chipset: Intel(R) 845G Chipset Grahpics: 64Mb Intel(R) 82845G Graphics Controller HDD: UATA/100 (1gb/s) RAM: 760mb (512+256)
I'm very worried about my display card now. It has a very low performance.
Thanks in advance.

Can i use vista only with 256mb Ram
Sry 4 my english

Diablo wrote:

Can i use vista only with 256mb Ram

Install - perhaps...
Use - not.

Sry 4 my english

U R welcome;-)
rOy

I've heard of a few people using 256MB of RAM with Vista even with Aero Glass, but if you really wish to install Vista with 256MB of RAM, you definitely need to shut off some features and I wouldn't recommend using Aero Glass even if your video card meets the requirements because DWM eats 40-50MB of RAM when Glass is on. Also, performance would probably be very poor. "rOy cOOrne" wrote in message

Diablo wrote: Can i use vista only with 256mb Ram
Install - perhaps...
Use - not.
Sry 4 my english
U R welcome;-)
rOy