VGA PPCs = need more RAM, SPEED, VIDEO ACCELERATION????

[Lukaino]

Hey does anyone know if the new PPCs w/VGA resolution will need more RAM & SPEED & VIDEO ACCELERATION? I think this is a good question. If they do, maybe this issues will only be dealt with after the 1st generation of VGA PPCs...?? What do you guys think?

[conipto]

Well, I think it's less an issue of the hardware needing it as much as it is the OS needing it. I mean, if my old 486 Dx2-66 with 16 megs of ram did just fine with VGA, why shouldn't a 400+ MHz processor with at most times atleast that in free memory be able to?

Bill

[Lukaino]

Hmmm... well let's hear what others have to say. I'm thinking that for a game that is made for higher resolution, the more memory that game might need. I'm thinking the the new CPU speeds might be enough... but you know what? 486DX games were written for DOS, right? DOS games were much faster because they had direct access to hardware (like console games). You see, let's say after you install programs to a 64MB PDA... you have much less available RAM. You could install the programs on a SD card to save memory. I'm thinking that the 128MB memory PDAs are the best bet for the future...(maybe). ? What do you guys think?

[Lukaino]

Plus...on the www.PocketGamer.org website, there was news of a new PPC 3D game that came out. This game needed 32 MB of RAM & an Intel 3D accelerator. The only way I can get 32 MB of RAM is only if I install almost nothing on the PPC itself.

[conipto]

Why is it that with as large as these things are, they are limited to such low memory capactities? We can fit a gig of RAM in a single DIMM without a problem now. Is it a matter of battery power conservation or what?

Bill

[Lukaino]

Yea I have thought of that before. If you think about it, a GIG of RAM will need battery power to keep all of that memory fresh, so when you turn you PDA off, then on 5 minutes later, that memory will still be there. I'm not sure how much power will be enough to keep that 1 gig memory fresh though. If we could just get an electronic engineer to answer this. But if you think about it, those batteries they use for PDAs are small. If they made the battery to span the whole bottom/back of the PDA, that could make the PDA last a long time.

[Lukaino]

One way to keep that GIG of memory is too do a Windows Hibernation thing and store the mem on a laptop HDD when the PDA is turned off. Then when it is turned on, do a Resuming Windows thing. I don't know how fast someone could make it if they made it work.