On 13 Aug 2006 at 20:24, dhbailey wrote: > Johannes Gebauer wrote: > > On 13.08.2006 James Gilbert wrote: > >> Anyone else find that even with a computer that has 256Meg of RAM > >> you cannot install Finale 2007?? When trying to install, I get a > >> message that says that since I don't have 256meg of RAM (I do) the > >> install does not continue. (The system requirments that MakeMusic > >> advertises says nothing about having a 'minimum' of 256, just 256 > >> minimum). Why should a notation software program require sooo much > >> RAM in the first place? > > > > Sooo much RAM? You must be joking. The standard these days is at > > least 512 MB. I think Finale's requirements are low if anything.
Finale doesn't require much in resources compared to many other modern programs, but to me, even 256 as a minimum is a ridiculously high requirement. Minimums always mean "the minimum needed to launch this program by itself with nothing else running." If Finale 2007 is using 256MBs or some large proportion of that by default, then it is a real pig in comparison to previous versions of Finale. > > However, if you really think you have 256 MB I don't know why Finale > > doesn't seem to recognize it. But I guess you are on Windows, and I > > don't know much about windows... > > The fact that there is a ram card in the slot which says it has 256MB > of ram doesn't mean the operating system gets it all. > > Depending on the graphics processor and the sound card (especially if > these are built into the motherboard) some of that RAM is used for > video memory and soundcard memory. > > Then there is the ram that the OS uses simply to run. So there won't > be 256MB of free ram when installation comes around, and there may be > such a small portion available that the installer simply won't run. None of that makes any sense. Why would an installer check the RAM available when it's *running* rather than the *installed* RAM? Perhaps you're right, though, if the system RAM grabbed by the onboard devices is showing up as unavailable. I don't know how those kinds of things work, since I'd never buy a system that is so poorly designed as to be using system RAM for those purposes. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
