If you have a 32-bit system and want to use it with Windows 7, 1 GB of RAM is more than sufficient. However, if you have a system with 64-bit architecture, you should have at least 2 GB of RAM.

What you need to know Visual Studio has been a 32-bit platform in the past. Visual Studio 2022's first preview build offers 64-bit support. The new preview build is now available.

Visual Studio 2022 is available for immediate download. The release notes for Visual Studio 2022 v.17 are here. .NET 6 is available for Windows, Linux and macOS.

With Visual Studio 2022, you'll finally be able to take advantage of all of your system RAM. Earlier versions of Visual Studio are 32-bit applications, thereby hobbling VS to a maximum of 2GiB RAM.