Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!think.com!mintaka!proton.LCS.MIT.EDU!mikew From: mikew@proton.LCS.MIT.EDU (Michael B. Williams) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: 386 Enhanced mode slowdown Message-ID: <1990Nov30.191847.24834@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Date: 30 Nov 90 19:18:47 GMT References: <1990Nov16.195853.28171@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <59322@microsoft.UUCP> Sender: daemon@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu (Lucifer Maleficius) Reply-To: mikew@proton.LCS.MIT.EDU (Michael B. Williams) Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 55 In article <59322@microsoft.UUCP>, peterdur@microsoft.UUCP (Peter Durham) writes: |> In article <1990Nov16.195853.28171@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> mikew@proton.LCS.MIT.EDU (Michael B. Williams) writes: |> >A quick update for those (apparently very few of us) who are trying to |> >figure out why DOS programs run so slowly in 386 Enhanced mode. First |> >off, some non-reasons: |> > |> > 1. `Monitor ports' box checked |> > 2. Other Programs are running in background |> > 3. Using an SX versus a DX (from RONJ@lampf.lanl.gov) |> > 4. Lack of memory |> > 5. `Exclusive' box not checked |> > 6. ? |> > |> >If anyone has any things that they've tried but do not solve the problem, |> >feel free to add to the list. I'd like to go back to 386 Enhanced mode, |> >but not with at a 60% speed penalty! |> |> How about one thing that might? |> |> I remember when I first installed Windows 3.0 that I had trouble getting a |> favorite DOS mode game running at anywhere near the right speed. I twiddled |> a lot of the PIF file options and finally got something that worked. I just |> went back and narrowed it down to one, and here it is: |> |> Detect Idle Time |> |> According to the help file, "Some applications will not run correctly with |> this option selected. The only way to determine if the appplication will |> work is to select this option and see if it runs more slowly. If not, leaving |> this box checked will allow other applications in the background to run |> faster." |> |> I also noted that unchecking monitor ports made the graphics update more |> crisply, but it did not make much difference in terms of speed. |> |> Hope this helps! |> |> Disclaimer: I'm not in the Windows group, nor do I speak for them; I just |> like their product. |> |> - Peter I gave it a try, but it didn't seem to make a difference. Applications still ran slowly, and SI still reported a paltry 4.6. Has anyone else had success with this? Thanks Peter. Any more ideas about what might be the cause? -- ________________________________________________________________________ Michael B. Williams \ 1-2-3-4, KICK THE LAWSUITS OUT THE DOOR MIT NE43-532 \ 5-6-7-8, INNOVATE DON'T LITIGATE Laboratory for Computer Science \ 9-A-B-C, INTERFACES SHOULD BE FREE 545 Technology Square \ D-E-F-0, LOOK AND FEEL HAS GOT TO GO! Cambridge, MA 02139 -------------------------------------- (617) 253-5983 Internet: mikew@athena.mit.edu CompuServe: 73667,3264