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- From: kermit@infi.net (Kermit Woodall)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: ImageFX question
- Date: 3 Jan 1996 19:27:58 GMT
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- Mathew Hendry (m.hendry@dial.pipex.com) wrote:
- : Michael Zerbo (mez@newshost.li.net) wrote:
- : : I have a A1200 HD with 2 Mb and am curious if I can get ImageFX 1.5
- : : to work decently on it. I have the coverdisk version, and am always
- : : running into out of memory errors. I tried setting the virtual memory
- : : option in preferences, hoping it may help, but ran into errors
- : : with this setting. If anyone can help me, I would be grateful.
- :
- : ImageFX is next to useless with this little memory. The "virtual memory"
- : won't make much difference. I still run into memory problems with larger
- : pictures on my machine, and I have 7 Megs installed. About the minimum
- : I could recommend to get much useful out of ImageFX would be 4 Megs
- : (the addition of 2Megs of FastRAM in your case).
-
- If one has the virtual memory setup properly, you shouldn't get memory
- errors (except when you have to hit on chipram for rendering and such)
- even in 2mb of RAM.
-
- The ImageFX 2.1a manual covers exactly how to setup vmem (basically you
- start by leaving Disk Buffer alone and make Max Ram to 1/2 of your largest
- available fast memory).
-
- Kermit Woodall
- Nova Design, Inc.
- Kermit@cup.portal.com
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