will increasing memory improve performance?

[DirtyHarry3033]

Originally Posted by stabiz

I did a test a few weeks ago, and I think SH4 uses about 800MB ram (if it can), so going to two gigs is always good, so XP is free to do whatever it does in the background.

But I have to say, buying the C2D 2,4ghz is the smartest thing I ever did. (Not that I notice that in SH4, but almost everywhere else)

You sure about that??? I checked with MemStatus 2.50 tonight after killing all unnecessary stuff with EndItAll (running XP Pro SP2 on a system with 2gb system memory) and the peak system memory usage was 1975 MB!!! I think no matter how much ram you have, SH4 will eat nearly all of it. I mean, I was using 96% of 2GB, I bet if I dumped in another 2GB I'd still be at 96%. Not even FSX eats ram the way SH4 does!