My total memory usage seems high (1.9gb), have 2gb of system memory. Solidworks is eating up 1.2gb of that with the model. I would go ahead and blame that as the problem, but I've opened up this assembly before without any issues. I would have IT install more ram, but putting in 3gb made my system slower (unmatched ram), and I can't go to 4gb because I'm on windows 32bit. Any ideas?
Dell precision M4400
intel core duo CPU
P8600 2.4ghz
solidworks 2009 SP4.1
So your IT people don't believe that 3.5GB is much of an improvement over 2GB??
Try suggesting to them that they upgrade the M4400 to x64 OS, and max the RAM to 8GB.