Well, I decided not to waste time; last night I took my computer to the shop. Now I've tried Rev with 160 MB and it's a whole 'nother creature! Starts fast, loads the dictionary fast, exits instantly. Great! (Before, with 32MB of physical RAM and virtual memory on 64MB, it took as much as two minutes for Rev to quit.)
So, I'd say if anyone is having problems, better add RAM and not waste time dealing with the problems, since the memory upgrade price is pretty trivial. (CompUSA was very reasonable on the memory and the installation was free.) I think Rev definitely needs 48 or 64 MB of physical memory to avoid having problems. (It's only the development environment that takes the memory, though; standalones are quite small.) However, it still seems that Revolution, compared to the requirements of the engine, requires a bit more than would be expected. Especially, the Transcript dictionary has trouble loading on a computer with less memory, perhaps breaking it into more than one file would help since it's a pretty large stack. Choosing between new features and improvements or memory-friendliness, of course I'd prefer the company to spend their time adding the new features and improvements, and now I have the extra memory anyway. I just wanted to mention it as an FYI in case the company does want to consider it. Reaching out to more customers with the crossgrade offer, some may have, like me, equipment that they consider almost brand new but is long outdated by the standards of the cutting-edge developers and professionals. Hey, enough talk, I'm off to finally use Revolution running smoothly! Curry Kenworthy
