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From: ashing@polari.UUCP (Al Shing)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: MS FlgtSim and Win3
Message-ID: <2731@polari.UUCP>
Date: 14 Nov 90 02:15:51 GMT
References: <3792@mindlink.UUCP>
Organization: Seattle Online Public Unix (206) 328-4944
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In article <3792@mindlink.UUCP> a752@mindlink.UUCP (Bruce Dunn) writes:
>> bradley.grigor@canremote.uucp writes:
>> 
>> a752@mindlink.UUCP (Bruce Dunn) writes:
>> 
>     My original complaint was that Flight Simulator was extremely slow in 386
>enhanced mode (screen updates every 10 seconds, instead of several per second).
>I have just discovered that Flight Simulator seems to run fine in standard
>mode, with no obvious degradation of performance over running without Windows.
>I had not previously tried this because until a day or so ago, a typing error I
>made in modifying one of the ini files had prevented me from running DOS
>programs in standard and real modes.

I've run mine in 386-enhanced mode, and it ran at near real speeds.  Do you 
have the "Monitor Ports" box selected in your PIF?  If so, this is your 
problem.  Everything runs slower if this box is selected.   

If you are running some program in the background, this will also contribute 
to slower execution of FS, and any other application.  If FS runs slowly in
386-enhanced mode, and it is the only application loaded, you probably have
some tuning to do.

>    I have also found that standard mode offers noticibly faster scrolling and
>other operations in Winword than does the 386 enhanced mode.  The 386 enhanced
>mode has some definite advantages, but it seem that these come at the price of
>a noticible speed difference for some (although certainly not all)
>applications.

Same comments as above.  All of my apps run at near real speed, unless I am 
running something in the background.  I agree that standard mode is faster, 
but not enough to outweigh the benefits of running in enhanced mode.  I have
noticed that task switching on my system is a *lot* slower in standard mode 
than in enhanced mode.  

I only have a 386/16 MHz, so my CPU is not anything to write home about. 

  Al Shing