[TheLion]

These damn cams really draw a lot of ram. maybe someone can explain it. My system slows down to a c r a w l...

[Fledermaus]

Don't ask me...I'm mostly computer ignorant. All I know is I have fast stuff, lots of memory and a cable modem that makes me cry if it goes down.

Which is hardly ever. About 2 days (off and on) in the last week which is way more than it ever has been down. The longest before that was about a few hours.

[umbagi]

Lots of pixels to be refreshed, and your 'puter is having to process the incoming stream all the while. Better video cards do more of the work, more memory lets it happen faster, and a 2.0Ghz+ CPU will let you run two (Real and WMP) at a time without noticing it...

If you've got anything else running that hogs cycles (i.e., Seti), it might help to shut it down (although Seti is really good at staying out of the way...).

Watch your hard disk light -- if it's flashing a lot, shut down some apps or get more memory; it could be using the disk as "fake" RAM, if you don't have enough or other applications are using too much of it.

[Consort]

I bought a new Pentium 4 in January. I can have two webcams going, plus TV on my video tuner card and two browsers running, etc and it doesn't phase my MSI 648 MAX mainboard and nVIDIA gforce4 video card.