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mathewthegreat · Mar 27, 2006, 12:21 AM // 00:21

Id rather they just release it than put some new digital rights management in it

Omega X · Mar 27, 2006, 03:16 AM // 03:16

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Originally Posted by mathewthegreat

Id rather they just release it than put some new digital rights management in it

The delay was because they couldn't Merge the MCE code into Vista like they originally planned. So now the code has to be reworked to integrate the two.

But remember, you don't HAVE to use the DRM junk. Personally, I will never use DRM anything anytime soon.

Seef II · Mar 27, 2006, 09:26 AM // 09:26

Damn, looks like I have to put off my Conroe upgrade till then.
oh well, prices will drop!

Tachyon · Mar 27, 2006, 06:27 PM // 18:27

Then there's these little points about Vista!

A CHAP who managed to sneak a peek at the Vole's internal beta version 2 of Windows 53xx informed us that, even while idling, Vista eats as much as 800Mb of system memory.
Yeah, we were shocked too, but you have to believe the screenshot below.
Memory manufacturers couldn't be happier about that, as it will make people to go out and buy more memory. Our source reported that Vista runs ok with 1024Mb of system memory but no-doubt 2048Mb would be much better.
Vista won't install on FAT32 partitions, it only likes NTFS partitions. We also know that the system performs quite well on an Athlon 4000+ and a Geforce 7800 GTX 512 works just fine in the mix. Aero glass looks good, we liked it when we first clapped eyes on Beta 1 version.
Vista occupies roughly three times more space than Windows XP. In fact, it'll require up to a whopping seven gigabytes of drive space.

Have a butcher's:

RECENTLY we managed to spend some time using a Vista machine. The machine had Athlon 4000+ and 2 GB of memory with Geforce 7800 GTX card. We installed a game and we didn’t have anything else than Far Cry at the moment. We wanted to check how much memory you actually will need to play games on Vista. We know it is a beta, but it will at least give you a feeling what could you expect from the final one. We moved the community with our story where we said you need up to 800 MB memory just to run Vista. You can read it here and we have to say that we do know the difference between page file and the actual physical memory, but trust me you need 1GB memory just to work in Word or Paint using vista. People were claiming that the machine used 400MB of physical memory but it will work like a beaten horse with 512MB. It works slow even with 2GB.
Here is another cool shot for you. You can clearly see that you need more than 1GB of memory to run the game. Far Cry is not that an intensive game, and we ended up with 1.23 GB page file and you can see that we are running a single instance of Explorer and a task manager.

I have a fear of FEAR the game as it will eat significantly more than Far Cry. We FEAR that you might need even more than 2GB as FEAR of already wants 2GB memory under Windows XP. It works with 1GB as well but it works better with 2GB, and so does the Battlefield 2. We are sure that you will soon be able to buy 4GB gaming kits, at least by the end of the year when Vista gets closer.

Links to the articles!

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30128

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30503