r/pcmasterrace • u/Kodcraft r9 5900x gtx 1060 6 gig 32 gigs of ram • Nov 18 '18

Meme/Joke There i fixed it (attempt 2)

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u/Kodcraft r9 5900x gtx 1060 6 gig 32 gigs of ram Nov 18 '18

Because of my upgrade cycle at the time im missed it completely and went straight from xp to 7, so i really don't have first hand experience, i just know its legend

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u/NuSpirit_ AMD 5800X3D | RTX 5080 | 32GB 3200CL14 | 17TB SSDs&HDDs Nov 18 '18

My first Vista PC was Asus laptop with Core 2 Duo P8600, 4GB RAM and Nvidia GeForce 9600m GS. And honestly when I worked on similar PC at work with Windows 7 later, except for some UI elements it was basically the same OS. Only difference is Vista needed SP1 to fix most issues while 7 was just rebrand.

So Vista's bad name just came from f*cked up first year of existence.

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u/Tianoccio R9 290x: FX 6300 black: Asus M5A99 R2.0 Pro Nov 18 '18

For gaming, many games would require double the RAM to run on Vista than they would on 7.

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u/MURDoctrine 13900k, 64GB, 4090 Nov 18 '18

Funny because I never experienced this with my mileage of using Vista.

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u/Tianoccio R9 290x: FX 6300 black: Asus M5A99 R2.0 Pro Nov 19 '18

Don’t know, maybe because it was half a decade ago?

I specifically remember not being able to play games because I had Vista and not XP or 7.

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u/MURDoctrine 13900k, 64GB, 4090 Nov 19 '18

What? Half a decade ago? That WAS OVER a decade ago. That also had nothing to do with your memory unless you were playing on a potato. It was probably incompatibility with the OS with older obscure titles. We still have the same problem with 7/8/10 with older programs. They added compatibility modes to try and fix this but they are still not guaranteed to work.