How much RAM do you need to run Windows 11?

[@therattestofrat]

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

[@ramrn77]

I’m still on 3.1 is it worth the upgrade

[@tomate__]

@@ramrn77 i think it would be worth with win 3.0

[@NaraSherko]

@@ramrn77 HOW YOU CAN COMMENT Edit: I know that phones exist but HOW ABOUT ON PC

[@supervidak64]

It won't the cpu doesn't support sse2

[@tassoss13]

You mean downgrade?

[@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.

[@5.43v]

Considering enderman's other videos, I wonder how long that feature has been supported

[@kaangg12]

it might be possible with advanced boot options on newer versions. (Oh God my English advanced in this year)

[@tylern6420]

@@5.43v why do some systems say you need like 8 MB but then to actually boot it you need much more?

[@okRoadToSubs]

@@tylern6420 memory usage on boot

[@randomgamingin144p]

@@tylern6420 bootloader needs ram

[@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.

[@BetterCallBigShotAutos]

i wonder how many instances of this would kill off the microsoft onedrive cloud storage servers in a day

[@bigtitmaster]

@@BetterCallBigShotAutos they don’t allow random read/writes

[@catto88]

It's an SSD, you can see in task manager.

[@electronicsfixer]

i shorted an ssd with 4gb ram and google chrome after 5 months usage and it was a samsung ssd 120gb

[@Gaminguide1000]

​@@catto88that doesnt mean its an ssd. vmware just says its an ssd, we dont know what it is on the host

[@lx8568]

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

[@Obvious_Endermite]

ye

[@Bxrben_Dr1p]

innitt!

[@yahyaefe07]

=D

[@GoofySlugpup]

Windows 25: requires 4975 GB of ram and 64 PetaBytes of storage

[@yahyaefe07]

@@GoofySlugpup nah bro I'm pretty sure numbers won't used in 2500

[@ryangrota8405]

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).

[@melomelo420]

on windows 10, lowwest usage i could go was 1.6 gb so recommend is around twice as that

[@melomelo420]

but imagine windows 12. minimum 8 gb of ram, that's crazy, and since microsoft forced me multiple times into upgrade to windows 11 window i switched to linux and happy since i switched

[@ryangrota8405]

@@melomelo420 Oh, I agree the system is getting more and more bloated. What I am classifying as reasonable in my comment is the *listed* requirement for Windows 11 - there's no point in saying that only X amount of RAM is needed if, truly, that would lead to a terrible experience. But I also think it's lame instead of getting more optimized, or at least staying the same, Windows has been getting heavier as time goes on.

[@Fataha22]

They doesn't know that almost all latest macbook use 8 gb and ssd for running that smooth

[@winksplorer]

There are minimum and recommended requirements for a reason

[@lukeb7954]

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.

[@seven7000_]

It would be impossible to run 256mb of ram on real hardware while still being capable of running windows 11 or not (unofficially or officially) this experiment can only be done on VMs

[@iamboredfor2months]

Some old motherboard could support 256mb but you would need an old processor

[@eazy_black]

@@seven7000_ you can use core 2 quad/pentium dual core/ core 2 duo with 256MB of DDR2

[@seven7000_]

@@eazy_black Not bad, that could work, but you'd either have to use the leaked build of W11 so it doesn't use as much resources or maybe deploy a image with disabled features, or a lite version (if that counts)

[@seven7000_]

@@eazy_black You first gotta see if it's compatible with DDR2 tho, some versions of Core 2 Quad do not support DDR2, and some Core 2s will just be underpowered

[@SyncronedStuff]

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

[@ikazzzyt]

or eko song

[@GDskypulse]

yes i found it

[@politicallyambiguous8424]

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.

[@paulstelian97]

4GB is the minimum requirement for it to run _well_ . I guess 512MB allows it to run the most important system services and everything (and Windows is in the low memory services mode, where system services are merged into fewer svchost.exe processes with many services like before Windows 10, rather than multiple separate ones which I believe only happens if you have at least like 3GB of RAM by default)

[@notthatntg]

@@paulstelian97 if you have anything touching the outside of formatting it won't work _well_ . vs _well_.

[@paulstelian97]

@@notthatntg Edited.

[@iannicolson]

@@paulstelian97 However, in reality, 8 GB is the lowest amount of RAM that is comfortable. 4 GB is bearable for light tasks, especially if you are running Windows from an NVMe SSD.

[@maxpoulin64]

4GB just ensures it won't be trashing the page file to death, which is why it was so slow at 512MB. Windows will happily work with pretty much arbitrary amounts of memory once it's booted up, but it will do so by using disk as RAM, so painfully slow on an SSD, and a completely slideshow on an HDD. Microsoft basically don't want 11 to be another Vista where people put it on way underpowered machines. So they make the minimum requirements to make sure it will actually run decently, and people don't go "wow 11 so slow what a bloated piece of crap!" after updating from 10, by effectively preventing them from updating at all.

[@jan_harald]

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

[@maiden3999Eida]

But microsoft requires 4GB

[@jan_harald]

@@maiden3999Eidawho cares what they WANT they don't REQUIRE 4GB, they ASK for 4GB, any lower would just be too bad experience for them to offer any support for

[@ScimaGDPlus]

And disk usage cuz swap ram

[@clementpruvost8670]

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 .

[@GMDThread8]

Mb ≠ MB 1B = 8b

[@GMDThread8]

People can't distinguish bits and bytes

[@ImmenseBRPlayer2852]

@@GMDThread8but seriously, did anyone ask?

[@GMDThread8]

@@ImmenseBRPlayer2852 b and B have really different meaning in terms of computer terminology

[@gato100mal6]

@@GMDThread8 so if i make a computer i have to make capital letters too? How do old computers work then

[@VisualTorrent]

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

[@KrystPl]

yeah

[@NassersGamingChannel]

Mine has 16GB RAM

[@-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.

[@unknown_codec_404]

Actually 32bit support was dropped so you wouldn't be able to boot anyway

[@jhgvvetyjj6589]

Intel computers had x64 way before 8th gen which is also required for Windows 11

[@hodayfa000h]

i am 100% sure 32 bit devices can run more than 4gb

[@-Tylermsa]

@@hodayfa000h You could choose to add more than 4 GB of memory to the computer. However, the 32-bit processor will not be able to access RAM addresses greater than 32 bits (2^32 +1), so it would be memory that would be unnecessarily added.

[@hodayfa000h]

@@-Tylermsa oh ok

[@MSWinNT]

I once ran Windows 11 on 48MB of RAM by putting it to its very core. However, that was a year ago, so I deleted the vm sadly. However, I have a video made on when I ran XP on 12MB of RAM right here. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bp6liXx3pbpmnbM Spolier, tirming Windows 11 to its bare metal core means that it would look like Windows 95 or 98 when booted to GUI mode.

[@MasterJayanX]

Do you remember at least part what you did to get Windows 11 to work with that little RAM?

[@williamthecoolboy]

it's not even windows 11 bruh

[@OGuiBlindao]

can you tell me how to do that? i want to try it out

[@MSWinNT]

@@OGuiBlindao It's now a bit of a rusty memory, but I'll tell what I at least remember, I used Windows Validation OS, The lightest version of Windows 11 and boot it off an hdd, then I set a registry key to run it of native fullscreen cmd-mode instead GUI NT mode, then I copied the 32-bit remanets from Syswow64 in a regular Windows 11 installation, then I copied what NTDEV did in creating lightest version of Windows.

[@MSWinNT]

@@williamthecoolboy I said I delete the vm a couple of months ago, then I mentioned about xp and the video I made of it.

[@ZeRoTeCh00]

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

[@zenithNoFake]

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

[@v0idbyt3]

i thought the same thing

[@MloMaxOnly]

Same bro

[@GeneralFrst]

Next song is used in nullscapes too lol

[@BombMapping]

​@@GeneralFrstok

[@Napoleonrevolution]

THIS VIDEO IS ABOUT WINDOWS 11 YOU STUP-

[@charlie.cjg15]

creo epilogue gives me ptsd from acu, whyyyy

[@avi8aviate]

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.

[@Cristianoronaldosewey89]

0:10 ACUUU (only geometry Cash players know)

[@Lim_GD]

geometry cash 🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑

[@acuthe24]

Geometry dash?

[@stevie-g-123]

@@Lim_GDwhat if instead of geometry dash it was geometry cash and every time you beat a level you got cash instead of stars 🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑

[@Artimis.depressed]

I'm a fellow geometry Cash player to

[@gallium-gonzollium]

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

[@SwaranjaliCarnaticMusic]

Notice how the window borders weren’t curved as they are in windows 11? It reverted back to 10 due to the uncanny lack of ram.

[@gatto_furry]

uDWM.dll just shat itself.

[@ShinAndri-031]

Microsoft Basic Display Adapter goes brrrr.

[@1eny]

0:11 OMG OMG ACU REFERE-

[@Ali-m6g7g]

why it translates to "OMG OMG I HAVE REFERENCES-" 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

[@poluefemus]

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

[@milk-dog]

Rock on bro, I love creo's music. Although I honestly like most of the background music you choose.

[@Anhunt]

creo's insane, especially slow down its good

[@davidDN2318]

It is cool that you can do stuff like this in a vm, would be very time consuming to have to change a PC build with 500mb and 200mb and 100mb ram sticks

[@yetanotherlinuxuser3185]

**m i l i g r a m s*

[@davidDN2318]

@@yetanotherlinuxuser3185 thanks

[@stebeware]

Epilogue by Creo, Damn, I haven't heard it in such a long time and it just brings back geometry dash memories lmao.

[@Noruzenchi86]

Once you get 256MB running, try disabling the page file. See how much RAM it needs to operate then

[@theotherdashmelted]

Them: Doing a very technologically scientific experiment Me: ACU BABYYYYYY

[@Neekso]

Anyone else play Geometry Dash and started dying over the acu song? 💀

[@darksters]

Yep

[@aeugh4200]

Bro is a classic GD player with good music taste. tell me if im wrong

[@justviscey]

3 seconds in and boom

[@gatto_furry]

ITS NEWGROUNDS MUSIC OMG ITS NOT FROM GD

[@theairispure4314]

Microsoft says you need at least 4 GB of RAM to run Windows 11. However, this shows that the true minimum you can run Windows 11 is 216 MB of RAM.

[@BlahoogaDMD]

Wow that caught me off guard! The first song to play after the intro is Creo - epilogue. I’m a big time fan of creo and epilogue is well made, along with nemophore, awaken, red haze, red horizon, etc Oh! Next song used is flow!

[@tbgng]

geometry dash reference 😱

[@jqbyteam]

4:17 CBF DEMON NULLSCAPES

[@ImEvoid]

0:08 acu real

[@CEOofYTPHs]

man I need you to upload to your page the wallpapers that you use in some virtual machines after doing an experiment like the one in the video of "Installing Windows 10 on RAM" or the one of "Installing Windows 10 using only floppy disks" is that they are so beautiful backgrounds 😿

[@Sn2ped]

0:36 Good synce 😭🙏

[@btarg1]

Wow, windows requirements are so much higher than most Linux OS es right now is unbelievable

[@anno_nym]

Is there any way of disabling swap / paging in Windows 11? I'd like to see the minimum then, because on your first 256 MB Boot, the SSD was utilized as hell. Just an idea, great video though!

[@dan2800]

Obviously it was swapping out but that's the idea how little memory you can give to run essential things in ram and rest swap in pagefile

[@MultiYippee]

You can disable the page file easily, but you'd need to raise how much RAM is allowed to be used since what allows Windows to work at dramatically-small small memory limits is paging out as much as possible to the page file.

[@christoffer4862]

What is important to take away from this experiment is that at 4:30 during the successful 512 MB test, there is a total of 1.6 GB reported by the Task Manager as comitted memory. So the recommended memory, as opposed to the minimum amount of 512 MB, should be at least 1,600 MB unless you accept unnecessary utilization of memory pages from the secondary Swap-file. Add some user applications and multi-tasking capabilities and we end up at 2 GB.

[@kiriluch9727]

Everyone: nice content dude Me: AACUUUUUUU!!!!!!

[@Bunniesnu]

Congrats beating ACU🎉🎉

[@CripsyFries]

? This is a windows 11 video

[@Bunniesnu]

@@CripsyFries This video’s song is used in ACU, a level in Geometry Dash

[@CripsyFries]

@@Bunniesnu I know about the geometry dash part, butt where is the song

[@Bunniesnu]

@@CripsyFries 0:09

[@davidcho1579]

Amazing! First video of 2023, keep it up.

[@zvqle]

Great Video As Always, keep up the good work

[@PCTutorialz]

It is nice to see an old-style video from Enderman again.

[@andresbravo2003]

Enderman, you did a really good job for uploading Windows Related Videos that people might know about it. Thank you. ❤

[@VivaPlaysGames]

4:16 NULLSCAPES!

[@benjaluth07]

You're back! Finally, my Windows 95 PC can upgrade lol

[@lando2011]

Ik this is a joke, but a processor that supports windows 95 wouldn’t support windows 11, and vice versa.

[@Olflix]

"I don't play GD" much? Especially after being greeted with the ACU song.

[@tracer2328]

I was thinking that too lmfao

[@RodrigoBadin]

Try the lowest ram needed to run but with Virtual Memory disabled.

[@limecyangd]

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

[@IcpPlayz]

But can it still run a Minecraft shader on max is the real question

[@probablyanon]

no.

[@____________________________a]

Nice video, but _omg is that an Acu reference?!?!?!_

[@Neptune.CodyN0me]

Me: plays geometry dash This video: ACU

[@tracer2328]

I was listening to this video in the background and I just hear epilogue and I think “ACU!???”

[@Gamecaleb]

Geometry Dash music is good

[@CYXXYC]

the fact that you opened RDP in minimum memory is actually kinda funny, because that would be a totally valid usecase, as you would want a minimal setup to then connect to a proper pc

[@AdrianDrummis]

acu geometry dash reference

[@rytpmaker5788]

0:08 geometry dash moment (song)

[@GamingEnzoLife]

I think 2GB

[@CraftBlack]

Same

[@junglivre]

I used with 2gb, worked fine

[@lando2011]

2gb to run it comfortably, 216mb if you are a school and provide students with the worst possible computers

[@eljocosos]

good video enderman you are the best malware KZbinr I have seen you are the best, greetings from Ecuador

[@BulletproofKuloodporny]

That 1 dislike is from an Microsoft employee

[@Curione23]

96 now

[@crispycuero]

1927 now

[@Meletion1]

@@billkormas3460this comment and video was from 1yr ago…

[@jamiestudiosyt]

naw

[@Sagadali523]

I was a Windows 7 user for the first time 5 years ago, and now became Windows 11 user because I just bought a high-end PC so I still missed Windows 7.

[@lonergothonline]

I don't know what I'm saying here, but is there a way to hardline the registry so it doesn't need to appear in RAM? like a text file it can read instead, or maybe just making the registry itself shorter/smaller in filesize? you'd probably have to re-write windows.

[@gamtax]

Saw someone's analysis about Windows. Registry is like Window's Achilles heel. I don't remember what's the benefit but one of the main disadvantages is the data is loaded and stays there, which is the reason why we need to restart after installing Windows update.

[@thelazywanderer_jt]

Thought I'd mention this Modern versions of windows are actually terrible at memory management. You could give windows 10/11 like 128gb of ram and it would eventually manage to fill it up. It neglects properly cleaning up after processes finish running, it delays closing others, it's misusing the page file assigned, and the best one is that it very slowly memory leaks, so if you leave the OS with some software running for a week or two, it'll be using more and more ram until it runs out.

[@HahaIlovestalking]

0:09 only gd players will recognize this song (i know this is off topic but i just commented for fun)

[@nightmareofficialgd]

Ik it's acu song but it's not exactly a gd reference because the song wasn't made specifically for acu so yeah anyone can use it

[@bubgamingandvlogs3870]

WE BEATING ACU WITH THE FIRST SONG

[@creproductions102]

Probably it's 256mb ram minimum the premiere bye bye was really sad.. 😥

[@AndyDoesGAMEZ69]

Man I got so happy when I seen a new enderman video

[@_SebJ1000]

I wonder if there is a way to make your computer use your vram instead of your actual ram, anyway great video and happy new year to all.

[@_SebJ1000]

@@terasestHammasratas yeah, I'm sure oneday some one will do it. VRAM is increasing on the GPUs at the moment dramatically.

[@Mizu2023]

It's used to store graphics, not bytes LOL

[@JibplayzYT]

This is nice, now I may be able to upgrade from windows 3.1

[@AntowGames]

OH MY GOD THE ACU SONG

[@makeshkumars2848]

Ender man back with another banger video

[@enn]

You need ram to run windows 11?

[@windows_11.flopparuns]

yes idiot every pc needs ram EVEN WHAT YOUR COMMENTING ON HAS RAM

[@enn]

@@windows_11.flopparuns its a joke LOL

[@mathgeniuszach]

I'd like to see this done again, but without windows being able to use more virtual memory than physical memory available. I believe a lot of the reason it runs so slow is because the hard drive is being used as substitute virtual memory, whereas the operating system is using far more virtual addresses. This is also how you can use browsers like chromium which take up gigabytes on so little physical memory.

[@pseudonym3690]

You can bring that limit down more by using a Windows lite. I actually conducted such a test years ago with a Win 7 lite I had made.

[@reedmayhew18]

Great to see an upload from you again!

[@unia.]

Could you achieve lower ram if using a custom windows 11 iso that strips down alot of the bloat on W11?

[@thepikachugamer]

New enderman video while i let my laptop upgrade from 22.04 to 22.10, epic

[@damnstupidoldidiot8776]

Nice.

[@albinskoglund1947]

Gd players *Vibing*

[@theboy9912]

love your videos watching ur video since 2021 keep it up!

[@foebelboo]

acu song!!!

[@JaibogarGD]

Lmao

[@Firbzy]

Yes

[@SpacyHuman]

Love your vids!

[@meex1y]

Acu song?

[@puce_ivt]

i was comment that lmao

[@suntake]

i found myself clicking the acu click pattern 😭

[@meex1y]

@@suntake SO TRUE OMG

[@sytrixmisterikz]

By the way, the song is called Epilogue by Creo.

[@самолтик]

Acu

[@kernel_data_inpage_error]

Sooo probably there will be some Chuwi branded tablet around there with 1 GB of RAM and running windows 11, but a 4 digit price tag workstation with 64 GB of RAM that ran almost every released version of NT can't because of a TPM. Given that the Vista fiasco was because of marketing hardware that didn't have enough power as "Vista Ready" they maybe are being a little too conservative this time

[@sameerhussain2579]

They have some software level restriction, it has nothing to do with the RAM capacity. If you really want to test out Windows 11 (maybe just for the look and feel), make your mind to use Tiny11 (Another Windows 11 but without those software restrictions like TPM etc. )

[@kernel_data_inpage_error]

@@sameerhussain2579 dont worry, i've tried and did end up dissappointed entirely of Windows 11

[@superprobablyreadthiswronglol]

CREO SONG GD PLAYERS V V

[@ПетрДвойнишников]

Your videos is great, i always like your videos, and it's informative, thank you for your content, you're great person here! Also 1 question: do you play games and on which console?

[@leonmax1122]

acu

[@groupez]

acu

[@xxhasur3238]

acu

[@ShadowOcto]

acu

[@vito6707]

acu

[@jack74593]

Endermanch after putting Epilogue by Creo: *geometry dash noise intensifies*

[@3_et]

omg the gd reference at the start jump scared me

[@maxydapurp11210]

gd level: acu by neigefu in 0:07

[@choppergunner8650]

Shiiiiiit I missed you, man! Glad to see you back!

[@atlas_19]

Damn, dropping some bangers along the way.

[@HappyWinXP]

О, наконец-то Эндермен новое видео выпустил

[@sonidheer4356]

Why do you have kinda nostalgic background music.. I love it

[@rl3d2008]

Almost immediately we are hit with the Acu song.

[@Desirefogames]

When watching this My friend texted me and I switched tabs lol then when Epilogue started playing I thought I accidentally clicked on a Geometry Dash video 😂😂

[@emaaaaax]

i had guessed a sorta of functional system would have worked at 512 mb because windows 7 is still under there and that's the requirement for it

[@xWatexx]

Let’s be real here - the swap partition is doing 95% of the leg work. As for the limit of RAM, that depends on how the GDT and paging are set up when Windows boots. I’m willing to bet that it’s the maximum amount of RAM a 64-bit system can have.

[@PuroGamingReal]

thats the acu song 🥶

[@DerSpechtGD]

Bro starts playing the first Song and im getting traumatized