[Bf-committers] Minimal Blender specs - 5 year old

[Tom M]

lefox at fablefox.com> wrote:
> I fully agree on the issue. Blender is an animation software, that is fully
> open source. They keyword is on the open source, not legacy. We need to
> look into the future, not the past. Development must not be shackled by old
> issues. 5 year is a good time frame. And yeah, please drop Windows XP.

There is a bug in Vista that results in double the ram usage for GPU
related applications, it wasn't fixed in Vista, they didn't do the fix
till Windows 7.  Thus XP will perform much better than Vista for most
blender users.

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