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- From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
- Subject: Re: PMComm scrolls very slowly...
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- Don Smith (djs6015@ultb.isc.rit.edu) wrote:
- : In article <1jdq59INNgft@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> slug@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Wowbagger The Infinitely Prolonged) writes:
- : }
- : }I just bought PMComm, and have to say that first, it is very easy to use
- : }and quite slick.
- : }
- : }However, the screen scrolling is quite slow. Is this just due to the cheesy
- : }video on my room-mate's computer here? We are using generic VGA (16 color),
- : }and the screen scrolls at about the same rate as a 2400 bps connection, yet
- : }I have an Intel SatisFAXtion 400 (14,400 bps) modem in here.
- : }
- :
- : I had the same problem with the very slow scrolling with the 800x600x256
- : et4000 driver that came with the service pack. I recently switched to
- : the newest generic 800x600x16 driver on ftp-os2, and now everything in
- : the WPS scrolls fast. I may lose a lot of color and seemless windows, but
- : the speed is great.
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- If you don't have an accelerated video card, 16 color modes are typically
- faster than 256 color modes because of the reduced bit manipulation needed.
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