>It could be that SQL Server 2000 is the culprit. I have found that shortly after boot up it seems to gobble up pretty much all of available RAM. SQL Server 7.0 didn't do this. It may eventually give some of it back,or even all of it, but I find it slows my system. I now have it set to use a Max of 64MB and if I need to do some intensive SQL Server stuff, I will boost the dynamic ram allocation for that session. It would seem that each time you ran the game, SQL Server gave a little back. With no SQL activity whatever, I've seen it go from 140 MB back down to 4 or 5 MB, based on what apps I opened. Of course it only did this after lots of paging!
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>>Just try this if it works for you.
>>Running Windows 2000 Server with 256MB Ram.
>>Run Performance Monitor, my free ram went down to 28MB.
>>I run Zeus games from Sierra then quit without playing.
>>Free ram went up to 64MB.
>>Run Zeus Again.
>>Quit Again.
>>Free ram went up to 96MB.
>>I do this whenever I run VFP,VB,SQLServer or IE when ram went down, Zeus is there to help.
>>Any body knows why ?

Sorry for not replying right away but thanks.
By the way I have SQLServer 7 Windows Server 2000 SP1 installed, not SQLServer 2000. Think it is the same root cause ?