Looking for bottom line - Is Trilian OK in an XP 4 Gig RAM environment?

I've been reading threads in here, KVR, and Harmony Central for days. I can't seem to convince myself one way or the other on the whole "Trilian uses too much memory" subject.

Is anyone here *comfortably* using Trilian in a Windows XP environment? Sonar 8.5.2, 4 Gig RAM, Core 2 Duo at 2.4 GHz. Three hard drives (C: for programs, D: for Sonar projects and audio, E: for samples). I would want to use a few other toys -- EZ Drummer, TruePianos and/or Lounge Lizard, Dim Pro, Garritan JABB....depends on the song, of course. Might use Stylus RMX instead of EZD sometimes. I do not have (and do not plan to get) Omnisphere.

I don't want to do 64-bit until at least next summer. If Trilian breaks the back of 4 Gig XP at this time, I'll just wait to buy it until I finally build that killer Win7 machine.

thx, Vince

I would say - go for it. It works fine for me with a Q6600 quad core, XP SP3,  4GBRAM - together with Superior 2 (with a reasonable sized kit). The only problems I've had so far is trying to rin Trilian *and* Omnisphere together with Superior and a few other things. It still works, but I had to fiddle around with "out of memory" messages, lots of crases etc.

Freddie H, I appreciate that the one purchase would cover me for the future, as well. But, I'm just not interested in moving to Win7 and 64 bit until at least one service pack has gone by. Also want to allow some calendar time for drivers to get solid, etc. Lastly, don't want to create too much extra work for myself having to go back to a zillion software companies to beg them to let me activate my apps on a new box.

Having said that, I'm willing to endure a little inconvenience if Trilian at least works some. Maybe have to freeze some tracks along the way, etc. But, it at least has to work some or there's no point in tying up the money before I build a new machine.

JB, thanks -- it sounds as though it's not hopeless. As I mentioned, I have no intentions to run Omnisphere at this point. Just looking for some more bass flexibility for jazz, funk, and rock charts I want to work on. I'm mostly interested in instrumental pieces (no vocals) -- bass is even more important/prominent to me that it might otherwise be (although I always love a great bass line). Thanx for the response....I'm really tempted to pop now....wish I could hear from another couple of folks that are successfully using it. Trilian is a lot of bucks....

Cheers, Vince

I'm really tempted to pop now....

sorry, I thought you already had it. Besides the great sounds - I think trilian *is* like loading about 5 or 6 versions of Trilogy (which I would never think of doing) to get all the articulations etc.   It's just offering us more possibilities I agree with other posters that freezing and using lite versions is a good way to go. The thing is - Trilian will be around for a long time (hell, I've been using Trilogy for something like 6 - 7 years, I think) - so computers will get more powerful, and we'll eventually move to 64 bit etc.

Oh well , that's just my £0.02.