It makes your very informative posts very hard to read on a monitor.

I fear some folks will just give up and move on, thereby missing out on your
Wisdom.

I'm going to paragraph it a bit below -- so I can read it.

DSH

"Travis King" wrote in message
...

I just tend to not write paragraphs in newsgroup. I started a bad
habit... I am using Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit on an AMD Sempron
64 2800+ processor overclocked to 2GHz. I'm using an Ati Radeon X1600PRO
AGP 8x video card with 256MB GDDR2 video RAM. I'm using 1.5GB of PC-2700
RAM.

My primary hard drive that Vista is on is just a Western Digital 120GB IDE
8MB cache 7200RPM hard drive - nothing real new. I'm running the system
at a 1280x1024 resolution, but the video card is capable of running up to
much higher resolutions than my monitor can support. (My monitor's
maximum resolution is 1600x1200.)

According to the properties, my video card can handle up to 1920x1080
resolution with Aero. I've run my card at 1600x1200 with Aero on before
and it had no problems running it - it's just that things look way too
small on that resolution for my CRT.

Right!

Having more video RAM most definitely wouldn't hurt if you're wanting a
video card that will go into the future gaming, but 256MB should work fine
for the next year or two for modern gaming. My Windows Experience Index
Rating on my computer is a 4.0 with my overclocked processor, and the CPU
is what's holding my score down the most.
Here's a list of my ratings for the Windows Experience Index:

CPU: 4.0
RAM: 4.3
Graphics (Aero): 4.4
Gaming Graphics: 4.8
Hard Drive: 5.0

Without an overclock, my score is around a 3.4 or 3.5. I can also tell
that my processor is indeed the part that is holding my system back the
most on Vista, but even so, it still runs smoothly.

"D. Spencer Hines" wrote in message
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Thank you kindly.

I mean that Most Sincerely...

But have you ever heard of the invention of the PARAGRAPH? g

Travis from Texas?

DSH

"Travis King" wrote in message
...

RAM is a very touchy subject and can vary greatly depending on what you
do
with your computer. My system has 1.5GB of RAM and I never see the
usage
go above 50% even when I have Windows Media Player running, Internet
Explorer, five or six instances of paint open, and Microsoft Digital
Image
or Adobe Photoshop all running at the same time. So for me, 1.5GB runs
Vista without a hitch. You could probably do all that well with 1GB
also,
but probably not much below a gig. If you're the kind that just reads
e-mail, surfs the web, plays solitaire, and the like, 512MB probably
would
work fine. Now if you're a heavy gamer, I'd say that 2GB would be a
good
place to be. And you're also asking how much video RAM for good
performance... Do you want to know how much video RAM for running Aero
Glass well or gaming?

Yes, please & which version of Vista are you running?

For Aero Glass, if you're running at a resolution around 1280x1024

Yes, that's where I am on resolution. I'm currently running on an NVIDIA
GeForce 6800 with 256 MB.

or lower, then 128MB should be fine. If you're running at 1024x768 or
lower, you might even do fine with the bare minimum of 64MB. If you're
going to run higher resolutions than 1280x1024, I'd get 256MB of video
RAM. If you do light gaming - in other words, occasional gaming where
you're not playing games every day and play older games such as Quake
III,
128MB should not be a problem. If you're doing "newer" games starting
with Doom 3 on Vista, 256MB should be fine.

But next year at this time, God willing, I may need 512 MB to run a
state-of-the art game with grandson, or granddaughter -- Right?