It's a G Force 9600m GT Cuda with 512MB dedicated video memory

I've spent the entire day working away with OpenGL 2.1 turned off and the experience has been very good. I've loaded up some of my very complex scenes and the systems resources usage is been really good. Almost identical to Vue 7 usage.

The second I turn OpenGL 2.1 back on, the resources usage goes through straight the roof. Everything seems roughly 6 or 7 times larger when OpenGL 2.1 is switched on in Vue 8.

With nothing loaded at all it even uses an additional 10% of my resources.

Regards
James