I need more RAM :<

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My computer is juuuust barely able to run TEF.
And it can't run most games due to the RAM being below their minimal sys reqs. Lame.

But anywho. I haven't been on the community site in so long I am more or less completely lost Laughing out loud
The forest, however, was still familiar to dear Rire (albeit very laggy), and he was very pleased and incredibly surprised that a wonderful little fawn gave him his favorite set back (...Well, aside from the mask, but he'll hang on to the big one for a while 'cause it's pretty nifty, too!), by accident or by design~ Didn't see that one coming. When I noticed what was happening I tried to figure out who you were, but alas - I fail at navigating and my computer is refusing to load the pictograms. Lame.
Also, Three-Squares-and-a-Rectangle is a nifty picto o:
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The other day, my father told

The other day, my father told me that SD cards (often used in digital cameras) can be set to "increase system speed" or something like that. If you bought, say, a 2GB card for ten dollars, you could use it as 2GB of extra RAM. As I understand. c:
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Using an SD card might help

Using an SD card might help boost the performance of your games, but don't confuse it as a substitute for RAM. An SD card would be used as a disk cache, specifically, not RAM.

The difference being is that RAM is used for a program to store and access various information that it needs operate. A disk cache stores information that would normally have to be accessed off the hard drive. This is done because it's much faster than accessing the hard drive, so if there's anything that's stored on the hard drive that your program needs to look at frequently, it may be better to load it into a disk cache. (Like a preferences file, or in TEF's case, possibly the Spell Data file).

RAM typically takes on the job of being used as a disk cache, but if your RAM is maxed out and a program needs more disk cache space, that program would be forced to simply access the data off the hard drive, thus making it run very slowly. So this is why using an SD card could help you get a performance boost with some video games but again, don't think of this method as a replacement for RAM, for it would be way too slow to do the job that RAM has to (It actually can't even be made to operate as RAM to begin with, because if it could, your program would be indefinitely slow, or even crash).
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Eeeeeeenteresting o: I might

Eeeeeeenteresting o: I might have to look into that~
I've been meaning to get a new stick of RAM for some months now, but money's a little tight for me -- especially since my car battery up and died and had to be replaced this month :<