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- At 09:44 AM 3/7/96 -0500, you wrote:
- >
- > I have heard many many people saying that E/D runs faster under
- >DOS than under Windows 95... I have no idea why, but the exact opposite
- >is true for me. Under DOS, the emulator runs annoyingly slowly, but under
- >Windows 95, it's actually quantifiably faster than the Mac IIsi I am using\
- >to type in this message.\
-
- I am not sure if you are or not, but try loading Smartdrv.exe... If that's
- not loaded then Executor will actually go faster under Win95 than DOS
- because Win95 has all the caching integrated (well, somewhat).. I've
- seen Executor on a P5/90 without smartdrv loaded and it isn't pretty.
- However, with Smartdrive loaded it ran like a champ under DOS and made
- running it under Win95 a joke..
-
- Instead of just loading Smartdrv.exe without command line parameters,
- try using "Smartdrv 512" at the command line instead.. It won't take
- up anywhere near as much RAM and will provide nearly the same speed.
-
- > Perhaps it's the way Windows 95 is set up to run E/D, or my system
- >specs, but I have notably better performance under 95 than under DOS.
- >If anyone would like, I could post or send benchmark info.
- >
- >Here are my system specs (only mediocre at best)
-
- I hope I never have to post mine, people will laugh..
-
- >
- > 100MHz i486-DX4
- > 16 Meg RAM (only 6 of which are available for applzone when running
- > under 95)
- > 2 Gig total HD capacity
- > SoftRAM (which doesn't help DOS based apps, and actually has little\
- > effect overall on anything!)
-
- You might as well uninstall SoftRAM.. It's been found to do absolutely
- nothing under Windows 95 except take up RAM.. =^( Email me for more info
- on this if you want..
-
- > VESA version 1.2 (find no advantage in UNIVBE)
- >
- >--Gene
-
- Ok, good luck and let me know if I'm forgetting anything,
-
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