PhotoShop is a notorious memory hog, too. I've never had so much memory on a system that I could have both Poser and PhotoShop open at the same time. However, they do reside on the same machine. If you have a Windows box, you may need to restart to free up memory which was already allocated, not just close down one program to start the other.

Ratscloset is right about games, especially the games which take place in real time.

Another thing to look out for is any program which automatically updates, whether it is a windows applet searching the 'net, or a virus definition updater, or a utilities file indexer. Norton, for example, if it thinks your system is idle, will happily start scanning the drives. Even a silly little clock which resets itself to the Nationally correct microsecond each day might feel that it has higher priority than some other bit of data. Computers are crammed full of widgets to make life easier, and I try to disable as many as possible... but most users like them. crossposted!

Carolly

Message edited on: 05/02/2005 10:28