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- From: shurr@cbnews.cb.att.com (larry.a.shurr)
- Subject: Probably everybody's sick of this (was: Slowww PM/WPS after SP)
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, OH
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 03:39:49 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.033949.25627@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- References: <1992Dec20.085835.9029@cs.brown.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec20.085835.9029@cs.brown.edu> wcn@cs.brown.edu (Wen-Chun Ni) writes:
- >I used to love WPS/PM, but I don't now. After the service pak,
- >My Diamond Speedstar+ looks like an old dog. OS/2 windows appear
- >in segments. I can't even run the old display drivers since the
- >setup menus and books are incorrectly displayed.
-
- >Anyone know how to speed it up? Thanx!
-
- Wen-Chun,
-
- I suspect that the net is is sick of talking about slowness problems
- with the Diamond lack-of-Speedstar cards and Diamond's "get lost"
- attitude toward OS/2. I know I am and I'm stuck with this Diamond
- Speedstar I used to like very much when I was a Windows 3.1 user.
- From what I hear, I'm going to have to upgrade to an accelerated card.
-
- Still, your complaint that PM is slow seems odd to me. I feel that
- PM is a little quicker with the new SP drivers than with the Orchid
- Pro drivers, 256 vs 16 color notwithstanding. However, windowed
- VIO and VDM sessions are slower... much slower than before and
- windowed TE/2 session are extremely slow.
-
- (In fact, a windowed TE/2 session slows the ENTIRE system to a crawl,
- anybody know anything about this? I am formatting some floppy disks
- in a windowed VIO session as I write this. I foolishly tried to run
- TE/2 in a window and the formats took five minutes and longer, but
- now that I'm running TE/2 fullscreen, they finish is 1 - 2 minutes.)
-
- If PM is slower for you and not just windowed VDM and VIO sessions,
- then perhaps:
-
- 1) You have yet another combination of symptoms than
- those I'm familiar with.
- or
- 2) Maybe your Speedstar is in 8-bit mode which would
- tend to slow things down overall.
- or
- 3) Who knows?
-
- I don't know how to check if a Speedstar is in 8-bit mode, but a help-
- ful person told me that if I had an 8-bit card with ROM in the C0000 -
- CFFF0 address range, then my SVGA board would be forced into 8-bit mode.
- I have a WD1007A with a ROM, but it's a 16-bit card in a 16-bit slot.
- That doesn't guarantee that my Speedstar is in 16-bit mode or that there
- isn't some other bizarre interaction, though. Anybody know? Please?
-
- Larry
- --
- Larry A. Shurr (las@cbnmva.att.com) speaking only for myself.
- Norman, listen carefully. I am lying. Are you sure your circuits are
- registering? Your ears are green. Logic is a little bird singing in a
- meadow. Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell bad! - Mr. Spock
-