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But it was a bigger improvement for Quake2, Hexen2 than it was
for F1RS. Still, you will not regret to go to 64 MB.

l8er
ronny

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Yup, I had the 1st lap stutter (FRRRRRRUSTRATING), and with the price of RAM
dropping recently in SA, I decided that it was worth a shot doing the
upgrade. I had also seen a message here that the recommended upgrade was 32
MB to 64 MB Ram.
I did it, and ALL of my problems with the stutter went away. The graphics
are also much slicker now, and no pause when the radio kicks in.

Chad

   Stop laughing, I make my living on this machine, and the
investment has been repaid many times over.  Solaris is
VERY happy.  

   With my current setup, after finding and repairing a
common virus, I'll describe that in another post, I still
see a small fraction of a second worth of stutter once or
twice in some races.  Most of my races are full length.  

   These few tiny stutters go by too quickly to cause loss
of control.  By the time I realize they happened, I'm down
the road, no problem.  

   I didn't notice these harmless pauses before I upgraded
to 1.09.  But I don't know they weren't there before.  Blink
and you could almost miss them.  

   I don't know if this helps, just a little fact I thought
you might find interesting.  

                                                      Larry

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   I forgot to mention.  The pauses I see are no more likely
to happen on the first lap than any other lap.  

                                                       Larry

hey, come on, everyone's getting the impression Unix
has one humongous memory footprint! That certainly
is true of Solaris, but not as much for linux. ;-)

Good to see another Unix type on this group, we're getting
more and more every day (currently 7Million Linux boxes
estimated, number has doubled every 12 months for the
last five years. ;-)

Uwe

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   I represent the lunatic fringe.  As indicated by my posting
in the "Dear Web Friends" thread.  Solaris, SCO, and Unixware
have all run with 32 Megs on my PPro.  But that is a little
tight, and there is some thrashing when things get complicated.  
64 Meg would probably have been fine.  Many, many companies
have teams of programmers developing and testing Oracle
applications on Unix systems with 64 Meg.  

   A quarter gig is just overkill to make ANY memory problems
go away.  And for a business, $1200 isn't that hard to justify.  

                                                      Larry