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- From: mcglob@usissc.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Brian.McGloin)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Subject: Re: Speeding DOS graphics in Windows
- Message-ID: <464@usissc.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 20:44:33 GMT
- References: <1992Sep2.155629.11423@porthos.cc.bellcore.com$$
- Reply-To: mcglob@usissc.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Brian.McGloin)
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- In article <1992Sep2.155629.11423@porthos.cc.bellcore.com$$ tony2@prefect.uucp (21131-gozdz) writes:
- $$This may be a FAQ, but here it goes:
- $$
- $$One of my DOS graphics programs (FastTrack) loads and
- $$runs extremely slowly in a DOS window in Win 3.1
- $$(Compaq 386/25, 9MB, 387, 110MB, VGA). I do not think
- $$it uses XMS or EMS, but it does a lot of disk I/O.
- $$What are the best tricks to try to speed it up,
- $$other than to buy a faster machine?
- $$I am already using Smartdrive 1/0.5 MB, nothing else is
- $$running, and have a foreground priority value set to 150/10.
- $$
- $$Tony
- $$
- $$-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
- $$Antoni S. Gozdz tel (908) 758-2931 | Bellcore NVC 3X-261
- $$tony2@prefect.cc.bellcore.com FAX (908) 741-2891 | Red Bank, NJ 07701, USA
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- In the advanced section of the app's PIF file set the Monitor Ports to Text.
- I had this problem with Harvard Graphics (DOS ver. 2.3) and this fixed my
- problem.
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- Good luck!!!
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