Dude, perhaps you just have a crappy video card. Sometimes these can make your computer seem slower than it is. My only computer is a 400MHZ Intel PII... I have been running litestep for a couple years now with no speed problems at all. And my ram has gone through all levels from 64 to 384MB. I started out on Litestep on a 266 MHz or something, and it ran just as well on that crapass Compaq system with integrated video... And I have been running audio production software all along as well.