yoon@aludra.usc.edu (Dae-Kyun Yoon) (09/08/90)
I have a question about non-windows graphics apps. Whenever I run non-windows graphics applications in a full screen, the speed of display is intolerably slow. This slowness is more noticeable in EGA/VGA mode than in CGA mode. I tried every possible combintaions I could in PIF files even I tried to modify time-slicing in various ways, but ended up with no improvements. Can this slowness be avoided ? BTW, I run windows3.0 on 386sx w/4M and ATI VGA-wonder/512K. -- ----------------------------------------------- Dae-kyun Yoon dkyoon@priam.usc.edu, ..!uunet!usc!priam!dkyoon
mikew@proton.LCS.MIT.EDU (Michael B. Williams) (09/11/90)
In article <YOON.90Sep7164013@aludra.usc.edu>, yoon@aludra.usc.edu (Dae-Kyun Yoon) writes: |> |> Whenever I run non-windows graphics applications in a full screen, the |> speed of display is intolerably slow. This slowness is more |> noticeable in EGA/VGA mode than in CGA mode. I tried every possible |> combintaions I could in PIF files even I tried to modify time-slicing |> in various ways, but ended up with no improvements. I had the same problem on my 386SX; the slowness was so intolerable that I had to exit Windows to run my DOS apps. But when I acquired Crosstalk for Windows, I no longer needed to multitask ProComm Plus, and I decided to switch to Standard mode, which I had read was faster. That was an understatement. On my machine, an NEC Powermate SX, Standard mode was noticeably and significantly faster than 386 Enhanced mode. Windows that crawled onto the screen now spring there. And my DOS applications run at least as fast as they did outside of Windows. (Norton SI reports a 15.3 outside of Windows, a 3.9 from a 386-mode window, and a 16.1 from a Standard-mode window...I'm still trying to explain that one!) If you're running in 386 Enhanced mode, don't need to multitask DOS apps, and don't need virtual memory (and the other perks of 386 mode), give Standard mode a try. ______________________________________________________________________ Michael B. Williams | /| /| ) /| / Room 527 | / | / |--<| / | / Laboratory for Computer Science | / |/ |___)/ |/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Internet: mikew@athena.mit.edu 545 Technology Square | CompuServe: 73667,3264 Cambridge, MA 02139 | AT&T: (617) 253-6015