[Intro]
Hello!
As everybody should already know, the system requirements of Windows Vista, at the time of its release in 2006, were excessive: ...
512 MB RAM; 15 GB HDD; video card that had to be compatible with WDDM and Windows Aero technologies.
The contrast with Windows XP is very as noticeable.
Many users didn't like the new system because of its performance problems,...
...various bugs, frequent requests from UAC to change any action in the system,...
...many promised features are not implemented, one of which is WinFS, which was supposed to replace the NTFS.
But if you close your eyes to all the problems, Windows Vista contains a new design,...
all the icons, elements, screensavers, and splash pictures were redrawn.
Even after 15 years, in Windows 11, some elements from Windows Vista are still there :/
Windows Aero was first introduced here, making the windows transparent and introducing various 3D effects and animations.
It was also the case that Apple mocked Microsoft and Windows Vista at its WWDC presentation in 2006 for almost entirely copying the design of most system applications from MacOS X Tiger into their Vista.
But we will talk about that, unfortunately, not in this video.
In this video, we take a look at how Windows Vista behaves with catastrophically low RAM and a low CPU frequency. [This may be a little weird, but why not?]
Well, I guess let's not procrastinate and let's get started.
What we have in front of us now is a complete Windows Vista, normal and with completely standard settings: everything opens, everything is created, windows move.
At the moment, system runs on one gigabyte of RAM, and as you can see, it runs smoothly.
But now, let's check the system's performance on low RAM. No, we won't go through any RAM volumes, as I did more than 5 years ago
Here I will check in two variants: 48 MB and 64 MB.
How do I do this? It's easy: through the VMware virtual machine, since the system is installed on this virtualization platform (or more simply, on this virtual machine :D)
You're probably thinking: "What are you, cr-zy or something? System 100% not going to start, it's obvious as hell"
And yes, a original Vista at this size really won't run. Not in 64 or 48.
Not in safe mode, not in normal mode.
System just hangs at boot stage, glimpses BSOD with error about loss of bootable partition (0x0000007B), reboot comes and so on in loop.
But it's on a full system...
I made my own image of Windows Vista for this, through the program vLite, in which I removed everything I could.
And... even with 44 MB of RAM it worked, but only in safe mode.
However, the fact that the system can be run with this configuration - there is.
But how to use it is another story :D
However, it takes a very long time to start up, which is obvious.
(lightly chuckling) It's funny to see when you run explorer.exe from the command line under these conditions and it "eats up" a couple of percent of RAM in one second.
But it works, even if it's slow, but... it works :D
But with some nuances such as Windows Vista cut down to impossible and the inability to run some applications such as "Windows Photo Gallery", and most likely the reason is the lack of memory, which is also obvious.
Anyway, there you go.
Now I suggest that you look at the performance of the system with a processor frequency of 66 Mhz. Again, the result will be approximate, since everything will be done by emulation.
It's hard to get a real computer with such a processor... Searches on Kufar (Belarusian ads service) did not give any results.
Yeah, here we already use another emulator called 86Box and it can emulate different motherboards, video adapters, processors, their frequencies and so on.
Since with 66 Mhz and 48 MB RAM the system does not start, because it falls to a blue screen with an error initializing the entire system, I set quite a modest amount of RAM.
But I will leave the processor the same.
The system itself starts up in almost 3.5 minutes under these conditions, if you count from the moment the boot screen appears to the moment the desktop is fully loaded.
I will not comment in my own words now, here you look at the work of this system yourself and make your own conclusions.
As there really is nothing to comment here, I propose to see for yourself how the system works. At some points there will be an acceleration, because everything works here unreal sloo-oow...
Personally, I think it's just a nightmare, even the cursor is slow.
The processor is always at 100%, and the amount of RAM consumption is fine - there is free space.
But once again, the very fact that Windows Vista can be run on hardware that the system supposedly does not support is there.
I would be interested to even know how Windows 11 is doing in this plan.
Well, that's all I wanted to show you.
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Thanks for watching and see you again!