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6 Major Factors Before Upgrading to Vista and SolidWorks 2008

Started by Josh M · 10 months ago

Graphic Systems has a recent post that discusses some considerations when moving ahead with Vista. I’ll address those here and touch on some others.
I’ve written before on What You Need to Run SolidWorks on Vista. That post should help you determine if you can upgrade to Vis ... Continue reading »

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  • Does anyone know if the DRM-lowest-rating-standard issue is still there? To summarize, there was some kvetching over Vista (mainly voiced by ATI) that it's certified driver requirements in concert with the DRM policy of degrading output to video and audio devices based on the contents of the harddrive. One concern was that having a rights-managed movie on your harddisk would automatically degrade the output of the video card to 648x480 or 256 colors or something horrendous like that.
    All of this was going around while Vista was still in pre-release. Are those concerns still valid?
  • Hi,

    2 GB memory...are you serious :-) 64-bit and atleast 4 GB is the way to go these days
  • M, yeah, I agree, if your going to buy something that can handle 4GB and up, go for it.

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