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- From: m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry)
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- Subject: Re: How can I make WB use less CHIP mem?
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- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 96 18:58:50
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- Joseph Thomas (benjamin@ritz.mordor.com) wrote:
- : I recently upgraded my '030 A1200 with 16 megs FAST. I made a
- : Toolmanager button for Pinball Illusions on my hard drive. When I run
- : PBI, the game runs all the way up until I want to play a particular
- : table, and then the game stops, saying there's not enough free
- : memory. I'm almost sure this is because despite the gobs of fast mem
- : I have available, PBI wants a lot of chip mem, which seems half
- : depleted (down to 1 meg), by the time my OpusWB comes up.
- :
- : Does anyone know if there's a way to force all my applications to use
- : fast mem on my WB?
-
- No. Windows and screens must be in Chip RAM if they are to be displayed at all
- on the native chipset.
-
- : I would assume that some things need to steal chip
- : mem, but I'm not sure what they'd be. If it makes a difference, I'm
- : running a 256 color Super72 Hi-res desktop.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Oof. No wonder you're running out of Chip RAM. Do you run a Workbench screen
- _and_ an OpusWB screen in this resolution?
-
- If so, you'll need to
- 1: Close WorkBench, e.g. using
- CloseWB_v19.lha util/cdity 25K 9+Closes, locks or reopens WB screen. Clos
-
- 2: Close OpusWB as well. I'd guess that this can be done through ARexx.
-
- Note that these screens will not close if you've opened other application
- windows on them. So you'll have to close those windows first, either through
- ARexx or manually.
-
- When I have encountered problems like this in the past, I have added a line
- to the startup script for the game to close WB for me (I don't own DOpus).
- I would close the windows on WB manually before doing this.
-
- Of course, another solution would be to reduce the bitplane depth of your
- Workbench/DOpusWB screen to a more sensible value ;)
-
- -- Mat.
-