Mooncalf,
Sorry, i must have missed your post somehow. I would say that 256MB is probably going to be the sweet spot for whistler as well, yes. I know 128MB is not giving any win2k varient/descendent enough room to breathe, but going to 256MB in whistler has been like a breath of fresh air. It has some little intricacies it has at this early stage with quite high mem usuage, so i can only really see the situation improving or holding steady as current mem usuage is loweded and other features added. Obviously going higher than 256MB will help, but as with win2k i think that it going to be a much diminished return. Side note - 3D animators, and people who leave games minimsed not included