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Re: Windows 10

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Originally Posted by asid61 View Post
Personally I've found that Windows 8.1 takes up massive amounts of memory (I have 8gb) such that SolidWorks will throw a "low memory" error after a few hours of running, even if nothing else is open. It might just be my computer, but I'm probably going to try Windows 10 later to see if it helps.
I really can't say whether 10 is better than 8.1 with memory because coding/compiling and driving doesn't use all that much RAM.

If Windows 10 doesn't have good memory handling, I would recommend Linux, which works quite well on low-RAM systems. (My main Linux computer has only 2GB of RAM.)
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