Quote Originally Posted by dan the acid man
no, your memory (ram) is used to store data you're currently using, so when you're playing games, data gets loaded into your memory for temporary use, thats why when you're walking on something, and you don't save it to your hard drive, you lose it when you shut the porgram or pc down.

an easy way to explain it is your hard drive is a filing cabinet, used to store all your programs and data, your memory is your desk, so when you're walking on it, you fetch it from your filing cabinet, and work on it all on your desk, when you're done, you take it back to the filing cabinet and file it away, otherwise the office cleaner comes and throws it away thinking its rubbish
i have say asked the pc how much ram is available , it will say 212mb out of 252mb. if a game needs 252 to run, i the same still gonna be able to run?