Windows 7affecting Il-2 performance

[swiss]

Originally Posted by nearmiss

You need a minimum of 3 gigs of ram for Win 7 to reach decent operating speeds. I would advise 4 gigs minimum. The W7 OS uses 2+ gigs by itself. Most laptops now have 3 gigs of ram or better, and that's because of Vista/Win7 overhead requirements.

Go into the task manager (ctrl+alt+del) and look at the memory usage.

When I only had 2 gigs, win7 took about ~500mb.
Since the upgrade to DDR3/4gb it takes 1.1Gb.