I'm not so sure it's Microsoft more so than game vendors. All the current MSFT stuff runs fine on my current machine, which is nearly 3 years old now. It even runs quite nicely (I did upgrade the memory - great than 256MB makes XP really fly). However, evn games that are a year or more old don't run worth a darn on my system - certainly not in nice neat high quality modes, and some even barely with all the details set to minimum. A lot of this is my video card - but the load times between levels and other things realted to drive and CPU performance as much if not more than video performance are also really slow on my system.

Randy

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>For about the last ten years it seemes that Microsoft has driven the need for new hardware. Programs became bigger requiring bigger hard disks, memory hogs which required more memory, along with a need for greater CPU speed to name just a few requirements. If you had "yesterdays" machine "todays" Microsoft software would not be adaquate.
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