On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 15:08:22 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote:
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> Those tests were using a Trident card in 640x480x256.
> Back in a minute.
> Hmmmm. Well, I guess I was wrong.
> If I use a Matrox graphics accelerator in VESA 640x480 hicolor I CAN get
> things happening around 1/4 second.
> I'd guess that the above tests take around 1/3 of a second each and if you
> flip between home and end on the preferences page, that's definitely fast
> enough to be 1/4 second.
> But I think that's fairly good hardware. Your system is obviously better
> than most.
Yep, "fairly good hardware".
Mine _might_ be better than most.
P150, 80mb ram, S3Trio64v+ with 1mb video ram,
(VESA 1.2 compliant so univbe is not needed)
[built onto mother board, not a seperate card]
Arachne is setup to use Vesa driver in 800x600 HiColor mode.
> And that last test - Home to End ? Arachne on a P90 with a graphics
> accelerator is about the same as Win3.1/NS on a 33Mhz '486 using
> 640x480x256shades. 0.23 sec Home to End. !.
>> I can't seem to remember.(there's _my_ memory leak)<g>
>> Which video driver are you using?
>> And what is your video card?
> On the '486 I use the generic VGA 640x480x256 driver and the
> card is an ATI VGAwonder.
So, the "3.5 sec to paint the screen" is not an Arachne problem after-all.
It was due to the fact that you were using "inferior hardware".<vbg>
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