How much RAM do you need to run Windows 11?

Today I am going to show you the actual minimum RAM capacity requirement for Windows 11.

Hope you have a great day!

#endermanch #experiments #windows

[therattestofrat]

Great, my pc might actually be able to upgrade from Windows 95

[DavidWonn]

The trick to figuring out the minimum memory on old NT versions was to clone the line in the boot ini which you normally used to start Windows NT and add a MAXMEM switch, specifying how much memory you wanted to allocate in megabytes. Decimal values actually worked, so you could actually start some versions with less than 6 MB, but not much lower.

[I.____.....__...__]

Look at those disk-usage numbers, 70-100%. It's swapping virtual-memory non-stop. If it's a hard-drive, that's going to make it slower than molasses in winter. If it's an SSD, it's going to wear it out faster than a speeding bullet.

[DaveAndBambi.]

0:11 OH MY GOD THE ACU SONG MY INNER GEOMETRY DASH MADE ME WANT TO SAY THAT

[ryangrota]

I see many people mad at Windows 11 RAM requirement, but I think it makes perfect sense. I wouldn't expect the minimum requirements to mean "it's enough to boot the system", but rather "it's enough to provide a decent and usable experience". Considering Windows 10 already ran extremely poorly with less than 4GB of RAM, imagine how bad it would be to daily run Windows 11 with that? Many people also forget that these requirements are important to force OEMs to stop selling devices which can barely run the OS (Windows 10 budget laptops with 2GB RAM and slow HDDs were not an uncommon sight, unfortunately).

[lx]

fascinating, I never thought you'd be able to boot windows 11 with so little RAM =D

[Cristianoronaldosewey]

0:10 ACUUU (only geometry Cash players know)

[VisualTorrent]

You could try doing this with Tiny11 when you have the chance. Might become usable with even 256mb!

[politicallyambiguous]

It is cool that it will work at 512MB, but I wouldn't install it on a system with less than 1GB of RAM. Still neat to know that the 4GB "minimum" RAM requirement is arbitrary.

[lukeb]

If this was done on real hardware it depends. The system may need more memory to run if the GPU does not have dedicated graphics and needs to use the system memory instead.

[SyncronedStuff]

Background song at the start: Creo - Epilogue
(Also known as the ACU song)

[clementpruvost]

Theory: Maybe Windows 11 minimum amount of RAM is between 256 and 512 Mb. I remember in older version of VMware that the recommended amount of RAM to Windows 2000 is 384 Mb of RAM and personally, I like to install Win 9x/2000 with 444 Mb of memory. Maybe with the 4 Mb of memory changes, we can find the minimum amount of RAM and therefore, the limit .

[jan_harald]

you'd probably still need like 1gb ram to be actually usable, without constant errors and 97% ram usage, lol

[-Tylermsa]

Really interesting video for showing the absolute minimum for RAM. I do believe Microsoft intentionally mandated 4GB of RAM for Windows 11 to discourage those with 32-bit computers from upgrading (since 32-bit computers can only support 4GB), but I think that this is kinda proof that its still possible to do so, with a lot of patience.

[gallium-gonzollium]

2:00
Nobody:
Live Chat: *acu acu acu*

[charlie.cjg]

creo epilogue gives me ptsd from acu, whyyyy

[limecyangd]

Omg where did u get those songs? Do you play Geometry Dash?

[ZeRoTeCh]

You finally uploaded a new video after a long time, great to see you back! 😄👍

[aviaviate]

Since the Windows 11 crash screen is black instead of blue, I would personally call it the more technical bug check or bug check screen to avoid confusion.

[poluefemus]

hey, you should show what the software on your website does, think that would be pretty cool