Right now I'm running Vue on my rather elderly Dell -- a machine with a 32MB GeForce 2 graphics card and 128 megs of RAM. This is far higher than the minimum requirements listed on the box.... but still, I find myself compelled to close and re-open the application every 15-20 minutes. Occasionally even that doesn't help and I have to reboot the computer. The effect is almost as though I have a memory bleed or something. My card doesn't seem to be OpenGL compliant even with the latest patch, so I'm considering upgrading that anyway. (Looking at wireframes is a bore). What I'd like to know is -- what piece of hardware should I invest in next? More memory? A bigger drive? How do I eliminate this laggy-draggy performance?

I'd say go for the latest graphics card, another RAM module and a faster CPU. Do you have other programs running in the background that might be using up memory as you work in Vue? Things like background virus scanning, maintenence scheduling, Windoze update monitor, Real Player connection...stuff like that?

I would start off by getting more RAM. On my previous Windows Me system, the operating system alone was using up 128 megabytes of RAM. If Vue has to use virtual memory, things are going to be a lot slower while the OS swaps memory pages.