why is blender running slow??? please help!!

When I open blender, at the top right it shows mem 0.6 and after a while of working it shows mem 4.5 by this time blender runs extremly slow. so i have to save exit and restart the program. Does ne one know what is wrong

My spec are

2400 xp
512 mb ddr
Radeon 9700 pro

Come ON, man! Read this: https://blenderartists.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=23964

Follow neo’s instructions.

I cant?? when i click on the link a blank page is displayed and it says done at the bottom

Come ON, man! Read this: https://blenderartists.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=23964

Follow neo’s instructions.[/quote]
can people please stop suggesting this?

the current version of blender [2.34 will probably come out in a couple weeks] in CVS does not have the bug where blender gets much slower with use. some people say it still gets slower, but it is definitely not as bad

go to the fourm on blender.org, go to the testing builds thread, and download a recent version of bf-blender for windows from there. it shouldn’t have that problem

Come ON, man! Read this: https://blenderartists.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=23964

Follow neo’s instructions.[/quote]
can people please stop suggesting this?

the current version of blender [2.34 will probably come out in a couple weeks] in CVS does not have the bug where blender gets much slower with use. some people say it still gets slower, but it is definitely not as bad

go to the fourm on blender.org, go to the testing builds thread, and download a recent version of bf-blender for windows from there. it shouldn’t have that problem[/quote]

:expressionless: Why didn’t I think of that?

thanks for understanding.

I downloaded blender only yesterday, so i am new to it, and i gues it is pretty knew version. It becomes so slow that when i click on 'n pink dot it can take up to 5 seconds where when i start it is instant

yeah, if you misunderstood

that will be fixed almost completely in the next release

you can get a build [make sure it is bf-blender for your platform] which is almost the next release [and ought to have that fix] from the testing thread in the forum on blender.org. the next release will probably come out in a couple weeks if you want an official version [with an installer, file associations and all that suff].