So, there's a game I want. I have no room in my home for a desktop computer at all; my only computer is an HP Pavilion g7 laptop. If my laptop can't run it, and it isn't on the Wii, I'm not playing it, essentially.
So I'm on Steam, looking at a game. Under minimum requirements, it says this:
Memory: 2GB RAM (XP)/3GB RAM (Windows 7 / Vista)
Why does the exact same game require more or less memory just because I have a different version of the OS? Is this a 32-bit vs. 64-bit issue? Is it really that necessary that I find some way to install another GB of RAM just because I happened to get a machine that runs Windows 7?