[nvda] Re: NVDA and slower pc's?

yes ypou need 256 mb ram or higher
----- Original Message ----- From: "kendell clark" <coffeekingms@xxxxxxxxx> 
To: <nvda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2009 7:24 PM
Subject: [nvda] NVDA and slower pc's?
Hi all. I have a multi core laptop that I use for the majority of my reading and internet tasks, and nvda works very well on it. it's very responsive and rarely freezes. but my brother has an old single core machine with 512 mb of ram, 30 gb hard drive and no viruses. NVDA is much more problematic on this machine, often stuttering during speech, or failing to speak all together. in fact I often have to kill the nvda process and restart it as nvda seems to get stuck seemingly randomly. My library's pc's are pentium d 2.80 ghz processor and 512 mb rram. same problems. This is not a complaint. I am just wondering if anyone else has noticed that nvda seems to work very slowly on machines with 512 mb ram or less? my mom has a machine with 384 mb ram and nvda is practically unusable. Thoughts? all the pc's I run nvda on have no viruses or spyware and are routinely defragged and tuned up. Does anyone have any ideas as to why this happens? on each machine I use built-in E-speak to make sure nvda is running at it's fastest. The new nvda service for logging on and uac support has not impactednvda's performance, so I don't think it is that. the user guide says that nvda needs 256 mb ram and 1ghz processor and all the machines I run nvda on exceed that. confused. 
Thanks for any help
Kendell clark

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