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From: smsmith@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Stephen M. Smith)
Subject: QEMM, Orchid Pro II BIOS, and trouble.
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Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1991 00:54:26 GMT
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OK, all you QEMM gurus, here's one for you:

I'm trying to get the performance out of my ProDesigner II VGA
card that I would like.  If I load my system without QEMM,
and include the line DEVICE=C:\VGA\SPEED_UP.SYS in my config.sys
file (SPEED_UP.SYS is the utility for video BIOS shadowing which came
with my Orchid VGA card), I then can get an unbelievable 31,000+ CPS
rating on my video card (tested with QaPlus diagnostics).

Problem: If I load QEMM, I can only get HALF that speed.  What's
going on?

Things I've tried:

   1) Let QEMM shadow the BIOS with the ROM parameter.  Doesn't help.

   2) Load SPEED_UP.SYS in high memory with QEMM.  Doesn't help.

   3) Load QEMM with the no video ram option, then load SPEED_UP.SYS
      into high memory.  System hangs.

   4) Load SPEED_UP.SYS in low memory before starting QEMM in my
      config.sys file.  Still doesn't help.  The only difference is
      now I've got 32k less for DOS applications.

Summary:

   In other words, I can only get 31,000+ CPS speed if I use NO 
   EMM (I've tried it with Windows too and it didn't help) and only
   if I use SPEED_UP.SYS in low memory.
   
I'm wondering if for some reason the QaPlus diagnostics don't test
correctly under various conditions, and that my test results are
worthless.  I'm also wondering is other things are affecting the
results, like my 64k memory cache.  Should my tests be run with
the memory cache off? (It's horribly slow if I do!!)

Can somebody help me?

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