actualy thats not true. I have a laptop from 08 with vista and 3 gb of ram (orignally 2) though that one gb of ram helped, the biggest thing that helped made my computer better is updated my graphics driver via NVIDIA.com. Also i searched online to get directx 10 and windows service pack 2 with other windows updates. I must say doing this has significantly enhanced my computers gaming speed. Before i couldnt play a full game in the normal view unless it was pre industrial era or on a tiny or duel map. Now i can run it on all except huge, and even on huge its a whole lot better than before.