I hope you found this to be informative! If so, please vote that this post was helpful!! Feel free to comment or to say what hardware you have got win7 running on, as I am as curious as you to see what win7 runs on. See my thread " Readme: Older ATI, Intel onboard graphics, or NVIDIA graphics cards on Windows 7 " for more on if your card is affected or not.
These cards do not have WDDM 1.1 (win7) drivers, but they do have WDDM 1.0 (Vista) drivers and will run on win7 including the Aero effects!
Please post what size Hard Drive you have got win7 running on! IDE or SATA HDD, 16 GB (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit) free spaceĬlick here to go to ATI driver search pageĬlick here to go to NVIDIA driver search pageĪTI has discontinued drivers for older graphics cards. WDDM 1.1 (Windows 7) drivers, DirectX 9 and 10 capable. Graphics card: Onboard graphics card, 8 MB of memoryĪt least WDDM 1.0 (Vista) drivers, DirectX 9 capable.ĭedicated graphics card, 128 or 256 MB of memory, RAM: 512 MB (This much is required to even get the installer running) Minimum Windows 7 system requirements: Processor: Pentium 3, 665 MHz Please note: If these specs below baffle you, please check out the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor to see if your computer can upgrade to Windows 7. This category is for you if you want all the Aero effects to run well, or to play games, or just want to increase your WEI index.
This category goes along with MS's min requirements located here. requirements to run win7 with some reasonable performance out of it, maybe get some Aero effects out of it. Color Key: Red means the absolute minimum win7 has succesfully run on. I have decided to start this discussion to let all of those who would like to know what hardware win7 has successfully run on. <- Please vote this post as helpful if you have found it helpful to you!! Hello! A lot of people have posted back to replies I have given about Windows 7's minimum system requirements, stating that they have gone lower than the minimum I quoted in my reply.