Hi,

the best thing you can do for yourself is to visit the SolidWorks homepage. Here you will find all the information you need to help you in this situation. There are hardware configurations which are recommended and have been tested by the people from SolidWorks and I would highly recomend you adhere to these recomendations.

One thing is however quite clear: you don't have enough RAM. You need 6gb minimum for the project you have described. The other thing I noticed is that you say you have four gb-RAM in you machine and that the computer only shows 3? If this is really the case then you are using Windows XP right? There is what I call "a natural barrier" within XP which stops it utilising all the RAM you have. Here I would like to recomend expert help to sort out this problem.

While I think of it, SolidWorks have partner companys which offer complete systems with your software already installed. Perhaps you would like to consider this.

Hope this helps.

Kind regards,

George.