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[David Fox]

>    The question to ask: is it necessary to have 2 GB of RAM to use compiz?

It's not specifically, but having it will cause most people to load up
more applications because they can do neat things like move mplayer
movies around cubes and stuff like that, so it may cause people to
load up more apps because you can have more desktops and that sort of
thing.

Having a fast computer and a sufficiently powerful video card with
enough video RAM is more important when trying to run compiz. I used
to try (not very successfully) to run it on an old Athlon Thunderbird
motherboard with an nvidia FX 5200 graphics card, with the proprietary
driver. I don't think it would run at all on my even older Matrox
card, as it only had 16 megs of video RAM (the FX 5200 had 128 meg).

I now have an AMD 64 dual core with integrated 6600 Nvidia graphics
(it uses up to a maximum, I think, of 128 megs, shared with system RAM
- it may indeed try and use more, but I don't know for sure). You
really need the video RAM to be able to handle the 3d-ness - textures
and so forth, as well as accelerated graphics for the effects.


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> Karl