gents, just wanted to add my experiences to the list. i have a soyo k7v dragon plus mobo, athlon xp 1700 and recently added 512 mb of no-name ram. my vid is a 64mb geforce2, 'bout 1 year old, and i'm running winxp. before i added the ram, i had 256mb, the maps would take forever to load and then when it did, there were always stutters. since adding the extra stick [total of 768], they load in seconds, not minutes, and not a single drop in frame rates. everything i've read says add the ram for better performance. winxp alone runs nearly 100 meg from memory, so that addition would probably be the most beneficial. as for mixing the different speeds, pc2100, pc2700 etc, i'm not sure you can do that unless your mobo supports it??? so....in conclusion.... more RAM=more better game
