Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 00:11:10 10/27/01
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On October 26, 2001 at 19:20:47, Fernando Villegas wrote: >I all: >A couple of days ago I wrote a list of some programs that does work and those >that does not in XP environment. No reply appeared, so I ms asume I left all >people in amazement, frozen in awe so nobody could write a word. >Well, I like that. Kind of an exercize in humility. So here goes the second one >about XP perfomance. I have been using it intensively for 5 days and this is it: >Pros: >It has not hang at all >It has not frozen until now >No blue screen >My internet connection -by now a simple Dial-Up one- is running two or three >times faster. >Fritz 6 went from around 390 Knodes to near 500 in the same 500 Mhz AMD-K6 where >I runned Windows Me. Maybe I did a bad measurement before? >Faster loading of all programs, including itself. >Far prettier interface. >Cons: >It is not very friendly with AMd cards, but, although putting an unhappy face, >it has worked with every driver on the integrateded card I use. Until now... >Some chess programs definitively does not run: the worst case is century and to >my chagrin as it is one of my favourites. >Until now is not easy to find an AV program that is compatible. I found one that >is more or less so, Panda Platinum, but still give me some reports of >malfuntioning. But I have not tested NT AV's. Maybe they fits better. >Now, say something... >Fernando Fernando, Please send an email to info@rebel.nl with a description what goes wrong. While XP's kernel more or less is Windows 2000 we have noticed that a too small swap-file (the virtual memory) may cause a problem at times. So my hint would be to increase the size of the swap-file. Windows works best if you make the swap-file 2 x the available memory. So if you have 256 Mb in your PC make the swap-file 512 Mb. When it still does not work sue Bill or less stressy let me know and we do his job in the form of a patch. Ed
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