[dirtwarrior]

What is the best low resource using cross platform instant messerger?

[Slimy]

Gaim or Miranda, I can't quite rememember which uses less...

[Jeremy]

Miranda but last I checked it was very buggy/unstable. They may have improved it by now... hopefully...

[nitroshift]

I use BORGChat.

[MGadAllah]

This is google result

Jeremy, on Dec 21 2006, 05:54 AM, said:

Miranda but last I checked it was very buggy/unstable. They may have improved it by now... hopefully...

You are right, I did not used it more then 5 minutes then turn it off and uninstall it, now I'm stick to trillian pro 3.1

This post has been edited by MGadAllah: 21 December 2006 - 02:18 AM

[Lost Soul]

MGadAllah, on Dec 21 2006, 03:16 AM, said:

This is google result

Jeremy, on Dec 21 2006, 05:54 AM, said:

Miranda but last I checked it was very buggy/unstable. They may have improved it by now... hopefully...

You are right, I did not used it more then 5 minutes then turn it off and uninstall it, now I'm stick to trillian pro 3.1

yea miranda is light but buggy and trillian is nice

[Zoofield]

I use Gaim but… can’t say it’s low resource.

[MGadAllah]

Zoofield, on Dec 22 2006, 02:03 AM, said:

I use Gaim but… can’t say it’s low resource.

I've tried it once but forget about it because every time I add MSN accounts it get crashed, and I've searched for any solve here or in google or even the gaim website, but nothing happened, even the new release still has the same issue, hope they can fix it soon, but for the time being TRILLIAN

[glocK_94]

I find Miranda quite stable today (well, of course, it depends of what plug-in you use) but it takes some time to set-up if you want certain functions.
Trillian uses (a bit) more resources but installs in just a few minutes.

This post has been edited by glocK_94: 22 December 2006 - 08:28 AM

[Jeremy]

Well, regardless of what IM client you're using the difference in memory usage is minimal of a few MBs here and there. Not really a big deal with a lot of RAM. You should have at least 512MB.

[prx984]

I use Miranda-IM on my laptops (I do use the MSN/AIM original clients on them too) and I find it perfect for systems with 128MB - 256MB of ram. If your over 256MB then you can just use the original clients.

And yes, Miranda-IM takes a lot of time to setup/configure it your way, but I have noticed lately I prefer to use the stock stuff. The actual program isn't buggy, it's most of the add-ons that people will install with it. Use the base install for a few days and you'd be surprised.

[MGadAllah]

Cygnus, on Dec 22 2006, 06:31 PM, said:

I prefer to use the stock stuff.

Explaine more please

[prx984]

I don't like adding to much to things. Thats the reason I use the plain Jane XP default Luna style. I also find that adding to much to something will often result in instability and performance drops. So, thats the reason I choose to use everything pretty much stock.

[MGadAllah]

@ Cygnus
I've followed the link in your signature and really do love the portable suite, I'm downloading the standard one right now...Thanks

[DysfunktinaL]

I preffer Trillian Pro 3.1

[ringfinger]

Jeremy, on Dec 22 2006, 09:14 AM, said:

Well, regardless of what IM client you're using the difference in memory usage is minimal of a few MBs here and there. Not really a big deal with a lot of RAM. You should have at least 512MB.

Agreed. In this day and age, whats +/- 2MB... I mean c'mon

[MGadAllah]

While I have +512 MB Ram but I'm still prefer to use trillian for another reason...I have more then 1 ID with MSN/Yahoo.
So I love to find all things together

[Drugwash]

Look at my signature.
Miranda IM is not cross-platform, it uses pure Win32 API. I've had my share of troubles with the old versions (always testing alpha builds), but I can say now that it has improved a lot compared to 0.3-0.4 versions.
While the stable release is currently at 0.5.1 and a 0.6 stable may be released soon, alpha builds are already one step ahead, the 0.7 branch being stable enough and adding lots of features, more or less visible for the common user.
Most of my tests as well as common usage were done on a 200MHz PentiumMMX with 64 MB of RAM, so if that's not resource friendly - I don't know what else could one ask. And please note that it was loaded with extra plug-ins, not a bare out-of-the-box installation. But that's talking about the ANSI build, as I was (and still am) running Win98SE on both the old and current boxes. There may still be some work to do in the Unicode build which is relatively young, but it appears to work OK as well.