What do games run like with not enough ram?

[thetechguy]

IF this question was already asked then sorry.

Well just as the topic titles says....well?

I tried to run halo 2 on 768MB ram and my ram showed 100% and the game would still run but hiccup very bad. even on low settings.

So if i upped that 768MB to say 2GB then will those hiccups act different?

MAin question is what the title says. 

[Geek-9pm]

Yes, get more RAM.
With Vista you need to have 2GB for good performance.
Especially with action names.

[chris1999]

MAin question is what the title says.

smooth framerates make the visuals look smoother and as you suspect, eliminates the chop

[comda]

chris1999 is right. I remember when i was still running windows 2000 somewere in 2004 or so and i got GTA VC and the computer only had 256 mb of SD RAM. The visuals were terrible and all the cars, bikes and plaines were black until i addded an additional 256 megs. This system is old so nowadays we talk about gigs instead of megabytes so i agree with both geek-9pm and chris1999.