[sldev] Valve/Steam Hardware survey.

[Nicholaz Beresford]

Laurent,

>> Memory foortprint is probably a good example of where things go wrong
>> currently. Minimum for SL is 256MB and recommended is 512MB and we all
>> know that 1GB doesn't hurt :)
> 
> I upgraded my AMD Barton 2600+ from 1GB to 3GB RAM.
> 1GB wasn't enough, swaping.
> 
> Since i upgraded to 3GB, i have less freeze and slowdown.
> And when i was closing SL, it took many seconds to close, sometime for
> 30s at "cleaning up APR", with the hdd crying to death. Now with 3GB
> it's done very very quickly, i can't even read the log in the debug
> console while closing.

You probably just have not been running a viewer without memory
leak.  Hopefully by the end of today, 1GB will be more than enough
to run SL well :-)


Nick





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