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Re: Things I would like to see E/L
Warwick Allison wrote:
> Toby Everett wrote:
> >BTW, I will probably be purchasing a S3864 based VESA card within the next
> >month. I will see if that makes a huge difference or not in Executor speed.
>
> That will be very interesting. If you could run a few tests before and after
> (using a few programs such as the "rotating globe" - it shows frames per sec.,
> I believe). Then we could get an idea of the difference ISA/VESA makes.
Welp, I ended up buying such a card off someone here on campus. It ends up
making some difference, but for programs like the rotating globe program I'm
not seeing much of a change. I'm still planning on keeping the board for
other reasons (such as I can populate to 2MB).
However, in my testing I found out something very interesting. -privatecmap
_slows down_ some programs dramatically, notably Civilization. It would be
nice to find out if anyone else knows of programs that are somewhat usable
without a private colormap and that are almost totally unusable (due to
speed concerns) with a private colormap. This really surprised me, as all
my inuition (and information) pointed to -privatecmap as being decidedly
faster.
--Toby Everett