How much does RAM effect MMORPGs?

[WarLocke]

You know, if it turns out that you're using a dial-up or anything slower than cable/adsl/dsl, I'm gonna laugh at you, AND everyone else who posted a reply. ;)

Yeah, well, commence to laughing then, I guess. :angry:

My only other option in this bumpkin town is Charter Hi-Speed, and my 56K account is virtually free, so I haven't upgraded yet.

Came into possession of a second 256mb stick of PC2100 DDR RAM. Made a nice change in that I rarely get pagefile chugging anymore, but didn't really help me out framerate-wise.

It's kind of strange, actually; with the MMORPG I'm playing now, I can go from 800x600 with all the graphical options turned down, to 1024x768 with everything but shadows turned up, and lose maybe 2 frames per second, on average. I'm not complaining, but I was expecting to take a bigger FPS hit that that.

RE: Roland - you can be sure I'll hit you up for recommendations when I'm ready to replace my box. The GeForceFX was only intended to be a short-term patch solution anyway, I want to (in a couple months' time, hopefully), purchase a whole new system (3Ghz, 1Ghz RAM, the whole shebang).