>it does help, really! RLC is a bit of a memory hog.
If you are running on an older system, you can significantly reduce the amount of memory used by reducing the texture quality in the "Options" screen. There are really two components to RLC, the engine and the content. The engine part only takes up 4 meg of memory, its the content that eats it up. Our avatars look great, but every outfit, tatoo, piercing, comes at the cost of more memory.
Street with High Rez Textures = 123 Mb - with no other avatars
Street with Low Rez Textures = 80 Mb - with no other avatars
The most important aspect of this, is for older system with low video card memory, using the Low setting with significantly improve performance. We are planning on doing more with the options screen to improve performance on older systems.
While RLC will run on PCs with 256 Mb of system memory, remember that the Windows OS by its self uses up 200 Mb.
bob