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**HAL9000** · 09-15-2001, 09:38 PM

I don't ever find a need to change anything in the AUTOEXEC.BAT or the CONFIG.SYS with my ME systems. I have one on a PIII 800 (512Mb) and one on a Celery 850 (256Mb), but have run it running on my brothers system which originally was only a 233MMX with 64Mb, we recently added another 128Mb as it's dirt cheap now.

As for XP, we have the demo at work running on a Celeron 800 with 256Mb of RAM. It runs very smooth and quite fast. For our demo machine, I have my account that runs real player for music in the store and I run the distributed.net RC5 program in the background. I then switch user to the guest account in which the customers can play on and they don't notice any slowdowns with the programs running on my account.

I do believe that MS is recommending a minimum 2Gb free hard drive space and a PII 300Mhz or equivilant processor. They say XP will run on 64Mb, but 128Mb is highly recommended as the minimum. With RAM prices the way they are, I can't justify running any less than 256Mb anymore.

09-15-2001, 09:38 PM	#4
HAL9000 Red-eyed Moderator Staff Premium Member Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada Posts: 17,575	I don't ever find a need to change anything in the AUTOEXEC.BAT or the CONFIG.SYS with my ME systems. I have one on a PIII 800 (512Mb) and one on a Celery 850 (256Mb), but have run it running on my brothers system which originally was only a 233MMX with 64Mb, we recently added another 128Mb as it's dirt cheap now. As for XP, we have the demo at work running on a Celeron 800 with 256Mb of RAM. It runs very smooth and quite fast. For our demo machine, I have my account that runs real player for music in the store and I run the distributed.net RC5 program in the background. I then switch user to the guest account in which the customers can play on and they don't notice any slowdowns with the programs running on my account. I do believe that MS is recommending a minimum 2Gb free hard drive space and a PII 300Mhz or equivilant processor. They say XP will run on 64Mb, but 128Mb is highly recommended as the minimum. With RAM prices the way they are, I can't justify running any less than 256Mb anymore. __________________ -At Ford, quality is job #1, job #2 is making them explode. ~Norm MacDonald, SNL News -Switching to Glide..Balancing in my head..inside of me... taking the glide path instead.