How much memory for PPT?

[Jason]

How much memory is it worth installing in a machine dedicated to running
PPT? We have slides that frequently contain animations and video. Is
it worth going above 512MB of RAM? How much memory will Powerpoint use
efficiently?

 

[Austin Myers]

As always,,, What OS are you running and what version of PPT?

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

 

[Jason]

Windows XP, Office 2003

As always,,, What OS are you running and what version of PPT?

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

 

[Bill Dilworth]

I use 512 at home and 2 gigs at work, but with RAM, more is always better.
PowerPoint will use what is available. If a system is under RAMed, you will
notice jumpy movements and transitions as PowerPoint does its best to keep
up. If you see the Hard Drive indicator (light that shows when your
computer is reading or writing to/from the hard drive) on the front of your
computer (well, most of them anyway) flashing a lot while showing a
presentation, you may benefit from more RAM.

Graphics cards that use 'shared memory' may also reduce your available RAM.

Bottom line, if you can afford more: more RAM is always a good thing.


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Microsoft PPT MVP Team
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[Austin Myers]

As Bill said, more RAM is ALWAYS a good thing. However, 512meg will work
nicely. If I were spending my money and I was going to build a machine
dedicated to PPT my first purchace would be a second disk drive and I would
store all presentations and linked files on it.

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team