I am using Darkstep v. .971 in windows 2000 and I am having no problems! I am even using some litestep modules with darkstep. Very stable and no problems here. The best thing is that it uses less resources than the Windows Explorer default shell.
 
My 2 cents worth. ; )
 
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why would you want explorer to use less recources with 512 mb ram? =) thats all it uses more of =)

I think it's quite important that your shell has as little overhead as possible.
 
I have 512MB RAM in my PC, and last night when I ran Task Manager, it was showing that I was using approximately 1GB of memory. Obviously some of this is swap file, but bloody hell!!
 
With that amount of RAM it shouldn't really need to touch the swap file. Especially as the machine had only just booted up!
 
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Maxtor 92049U6 20.4GB 7200RPM UDMA66
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Windows 2000 Professional

Bursar,if you are not talking about AVAILABLE MEMORY you got a HUGE memoryleak in some startup-app..
 
// Toby

I work with a lot of 3D Animation packages...namely 3D Studio Max and MAYA, so every little bit of extra RAM helps!! Nothing is worse than working in a scene and your harddrive sounds like it is grinding coffee because all of your Physical RAM is gone and its hitting the harddrive for all it is worth. I personally think that for what I am doing that 512MB of Ram is not enough. I am going out to get another 512MB of Ram this weekend to really get this thing cranking!! ; )
 
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System Specs:
Asus P2B-D
Dual PIII 700MHz
512MB PC100 RAM
Elsa GeForce2 GTS 64MB Video Card
Promise Ultra66 Controller
WD 15.3 GB HDD
WD 20.5GB HDD
Asus 50x CD-ROM
Sony 4x4x24 CD-RW
SB Live! Platinum
SuperMicro SC-750A Case w/ 400 Watt PS

Hey man, i think that the problem is with windows & not with the amount of MEM.
 
The more you get the more he wants.
Did you ever think of installing BeOS?
 
 
 
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8.4GB UTA66

man if youre comp hits 1 gig just after reboot the prob is not the ram its inbetween the chair and the monitor =)

Gee thanks, that makes me feel a whole lot better!
 
I would imagine that most of it is swap file related. The Windows suggested settings for a swap file with 512MB RAM are min of 768MB, and a max of 1536MB.
 
I'm gonna mess with performance monitor this weekend to see just how much actual RAM is being used. I'll then tweak my swap file settings a bit.

i was just kidding man take it easy =)
but obviously something`s wrong

I tried to install the darkstep in my nt4 machine and it works fine....my question is how can i reset it back to the original configuration?