Gordon,

While what you have isn't a "game machine", you can make improvements. Here
is an excellent article on "Windows 98 & WinME Memory Management":
http://aumha.org/win4/a/memmgmt.htm

On to your questions:

1. WinME DOES make use of more than 256 MB RAM.

2. 512 MB of RAM is sufficient for most WinME systems. Millennium can handle
more (up to 1 GB) but anything over 512 MB can cause memory handling
problems and it isn't worth compensating for it.

3. Your best bet here is to start Flight Simulator immediately on startup
(or a restart) and after closing all unnecessary applications. As WinME
runs, it 'forgets' to free up all the memory used for other applications and
after a time it simply 'bogs' down.

Sven Swanson, Sr.

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I am running Me on a computer at 750 mhz with 320 MB of ram. PC Booster runs
continually showing total installed memory and available memory.

When Flight Simulator 2000 or Flight Simulator 2004 is running (not both at
the same time) it reaches a point where functionality is compromised: the
engine sounds function sporadically and the movement of the aircraft and
subsequent scenery change becomes very jerky and in some cases momentarily
freezes. These effects are greater in FS2004 than in FS2000 and appear to
accompany the reduction in available memory as the programs run. These facts
led me to believe the solution would be to add more ram.

However, in speaking to various technology knowledgable sales and service
people, I have been told the following and would appreciate it if you could
speak to the veracity and importance of them.

1. Me does not make use of more than 256 MB ram. If this is so does it
affect the running of application programs.

2.If you install more than 512 MB ram, Me will crash.

3, The erractic functioning of FS could be due to a shortage available of
memory or it coud be my video card.

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