This posting also may not have made the list, owing to a changed e-mail address ... (?) Regards, Joe > -----Original Message----- > From: da Silva, Joe > Sent: Thursday, 1 June 2000 19:00 > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Stability - The plot thickens ! > > Some people have reported that VESA modes are very slow ... > This seemed a bit strange to me, as screen updates *don't* > seem particularly slow to me, on those PC's I have seen > using VESA (I presumed these people must have a very > poorly-coded VESA implementation). > > However, given the "can't handle fast responses at > 9600bps" > and "crashes on ISP's 'shtml' pages via PSTN" problems that > I reported recently, I started thinking ... > > To "cut a long story short", I tried standard VGA instead of > (800*600) VESA and I found that : > a) Handling of fast responses improved significantly (much > fewer "silent pauses"), although still a bit problematic. > b) I could now load *some* of my ISP's 'shtml' pages (via a > PSTN modem), without crashing. > > Therefore it would seem, unless there is evidence to the > contrary, that those people reporting very slow operation > in VESA mode, were in fact experiencing the same > *communications* problem(s) that I have found, rather > than an actual video performance problem. The way to > confirm this (if you encounter this problem), is to load an > affected web page at a "high" DTE rate, and compare this > with 9600bps (you may need to empty the cache before > each test). If you find 9600bps loads faster, you have the > same problem! :-( > > I hope this information helps in solving this problem. As > you can see, this single problem seems to be responsible > for several different symptoms, including instability! > > Best regards, > Joe. >
