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Originally Posted by Kiwi Commandant
That sounds right. Having said that, recently I greatly increased the RAM in my comp (a reasonably grunty laptop, Clevo D900T with P4 3.4 CPU and Nvidia GeForce GO 6800 256) from 1 GB to 3 GB and got a much smoother graphics ride in SH3
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RAM is a different issue. I would say that there IS a bit of a gain from RAM, though far from proportional to the RAM amount. For instance I went up from 1GB to 2GB, and I would say the performance jump was only about 10-15%. Not a big deal, but still nice.
For most purposes, though, a 2.5Ghz rig or so with a gig of ram will do. I can say that going from a single-core Athlon 2400+ with 1gb ram to a dual-core 3.06Ghz P4 with 2gb ram had a net performance gain in SHIII of maybe 20%. It ran well with all the detail before, and it runs well-er now - but no fantastic improvements.