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[Wolfman77]

A lot of software used to tell the minimum and the recomended requirements. Still the recomended was usually closer to the minimum in alot of cases. I do have a few programs that I have run succesfully with less than minimum requirements though, but that was several years ago, and I think they were more consevative in there minimum requirements then. Civ III lists a 400 MHz processor and 128 Megs of ram, but runs fine on my 350Mhz with 64 Megs. Might & Magic IX, however was barely playable and only required 64 megs of ram. I guess it depends on the game a bit as well.