In article <1992Nov20.220830.7847@vpbuild.vp.com> jessea@vpmeu015.me.vp.com (Jesse W. Asher) writes:
>In article <1e0q44INNom6@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>, bsteiner@mbcr.bcm.tmc.edu (Brian W. Steiner) wrote the following:
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>>I am running the Oct. beta of NT on a TriStar 486/50Mhz/8MbRAM/340MbHD EISA bus system with a Diamand Stealth (S3) video card. NT installed OK but I was __very__ disappointed with the performance of NT!!! So much so that
>>I have switched back to WIN3.1 under DOS.
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>>-Screen redraws are very slow.
>>-Mouse tracking is very jumpy (ie. you can tell the system is very over burdend).
>>-Frequently run out of memory (although my swap file is 15Mb)
>>-NT<-->LM 2.1 not fully supported (cannot "see" the LM file servers)
I have a Stealth VRAM card also (on an AMI 386/40 with 20 megs of memory).
I have seen some of the problems you indicate (mouse tracking tends to be
jumpy). Try running the performance monitor - I'm curious. When I run it
on my machine, CPU utilization in privileged and nonprivileged mode goes up
and down like I'd expect it to, depending on what I'm doing; that looks
pretty normal. "Interrupts per second" is always pegged out at maximum,
though. Anyone else see these results with a Stealth card? I've never seen
the memory problems though. I'm wondering if the generic S3 drivers have
a hard time handling the Stealth card because it interrupts too often.
There is a DIP switch setting that has something to do with this but I