How much "hard-core-power" is needed to run liteStep/windowBlinds etc. smoothly?
Sunday, January 19, 2003 by Bob Boot | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
I got Duron 750, 512, Voodoo3... is that enuff to run these mega cool softwares smoothly without taking too much memory etc. from the other softwares in use?
Fuzzy Logic
Reply #2 Sunday, January 19, 2003 5:59 AM
Reply #2 Sunday, January 19, 2003 5:59 AM
Windowblinds won't cause you any problems at all. At work I've had it running, alongside Objectbar, on a 533PII on board graphics 128Mb RAM with Outlook, Word and Excel all running too without a hitch. Go for it!
Ryokurin
Reply #3 Sunday, January 19, 2003 8:47 AM
Reply #3 Sunday, January 19, 2003 8:47 AM
You'll be fine. I've ran it on much worse and its been great. You may want to get a new video card for normal windows support period however even if you dont use windowblinds since you can get a video card thats like 3 times faster now for just 50 bucks. Probably would make a world of difference in games.
Phar0e
Reply #4 Sunday, January 19, 2003 10:49 AM
Reply #4 Sunday, January 19, 2003 10:49 AM
Well,I'm running Litestep and Windowblinds on a K-6 266 with 64megs of ram on winXP; and it works. But that is really stretching it 
paxx
Reply #5 Sunday, January 19, 2003 11:09 AM
Reply #5 Sunday, January 19, 2003 11:09 AM
I got a Celeron 300 at home with 384 Megs of ram and also a Voodoo 3 video card. Most of the time it's perfectly fine. Hardly any difference, but some skins are really heavy and do make the whole computer slow. Bottom line, it's not so much the programs themselves, but the skins you might use. Generally, the more animations and complex graphics, the heavier it will be.
snowzone5
Reply #6 Wednesday, January 22, 2003 4:03 PM
Reply #6 Wednesday, January 22, 2003 4:03 PM
i run most of the stardock stuff on a pII/350 with 384meg ram on win2k...my gfx card is only an 8meg ati 3d rage pro. if i really crank up winfx i see some graphics slow down, but nothing i can't live with
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Reply #1 Sunday, January 19, 2003 5:58 AM
I've had LiteSTEP, for eg., running on a 486 with 8meg ram and a 1meg graphic card...