Alemio wrote:GL Error: 1281 (invalid value)
I'm going to guess you have some of those really old Intel GPUs, like a GMA915 or 945 or so. That is your problem, rather than 1 GB RAM.
The game is designed so that it should work on those GPUs, so that it's crashing for you is technically a bug that should be fixed. However, since I don't have any hardware of that kind to test on, I don't see a way to track the actual problem down and fix it. You could try upgrading your drivers and see if that fixes the problem.
Frakked wrote:There are memory leaks through the game (Windmills, trees that give off leaves, basically any animation that isn't static is a potential leak)
This is not true.
Whether it's reasonable to try and play the game with 1 GB RAM is a good question, but I don't think it's completely outside the realm of the possible. I guess it depends on your OS, of course; if you're using anything newer than Windows XP, the OS itself is going to use all that RAM and leave nothing for the game. ;)
Either way, it would have to go extremely far before a lack of RAM would cause the game to actually crash. More likely, it would simply cause really bad performance due to VM thrashing.