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Originally Posted by endgame
I'd suggest, respectfully, amending that to the only real "first step" toward solving your problem. I took a bit of digging to find it, but the minimum System Requirements does list 256MB, while recommended exceed that to 1GB.
I don't want to sound overly critical of the marketing department, but if the minimal requirements don't allow for inclusion of the top side custom options, Facegen notwithstanding, without meeting recommendations, then it would be helpful to state which items may or may not be able to be implemented easily "at minimum." I think that's only fair to the user, who otherwise ends up in tech support being told what we're telling him.
All right. Editorial whim aside, RAM helps, solves a lot, but may not be the problem. Before you elect to add more (and that IS a good idea!), you may want to create a bare minimum league, say 8 teams or so, no Facegen, nothing fancy, etc.. and see if it will run / boot up, with no error messages. It's safe to say that a minimum game should run at minimum recommendations. If it doesn't, something else is at work bugging it up.
Sound fair enough, ggpa? Again, not trying to be contrary, only trying to come at it from a start at square one angle.
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Well, all I can say is this, many many programs including games put down a minimum of ram needed to use the program or game and then a recommended ram. Always go with the recommended ram because minimum rarely works unless you unload everything on the machine and then load the program...which, with todays complicated computers, especially Vista, you just can't unload everything. Where they come up with these minimums is beyond me, unless they have some special bare minimal OS computer sitting around somewhere and using it as a determination of minimal requirements.
No offense taken. You may be right. He may get the game to load and run but it won't be a fun experience because it will either be so slow that it takes forever for the screens to load or it will crash so many times it isn't worth playing.
I will say one thing, however, a very good video card, with a lot of ram built onto it will make a difference in some cases. Many of today's computers have built in video and sound which take up a lot of the computer's ram. One thing someone with a minimum of ram can do to help themselves run certain programs is to get an external sound card and video card, then shut down the internal sound and video. Just a suggestion, but it would probably be much cheaper just to get more ram.
Anyway, I never have understood why software authors put ridiculously low numbers for minimal requirements to run their software. I guess they are afraid that some people won't purchase the software if it looks like they are at the minimum requirements to use it.
