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System Requirements guide - Stage One Wiki

A guide to System Requirements

System requirements are often confusing things. So I figured someone should make a guide to them. Thus by tomorrow there should be a significant massive block of text below this.

The first pitfall most users seem to fall into is the difference between Minimum and Recommended System Requirements. Minimum system requirements seem to be a throwback from the 1990s where applications didn't actually need that much processing power to run and programmers could be confident that even older systems could run. The unfortunate thing is that this has changed so now minimum system requirements mean that if your computer meets them the application will either barely run with a minimal feature set or not at all. This is why the first rule of thumb is to make sure your PC meets the Recommended System Requirements.

To illustrate the point I will use my retail box of Windows Vista Home Premium.

Note I am currently freezing in Lab 02 of CompSci111G so I will write it from the comfort of my own PC tonight not some awful Apple Mac

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