Worst case because it involves doing something Windows would
prefer you not do. I worry about unknown repercussions in such
situtations. If a Windows feature is not causing me any
noticeable problems or performance hits, I prefer to leave it to
it's 'big brother' ways <g>.
APM I see already answered. My line of thot was that if the HDD
had been powered down by the APM, should GPL (or Windows) decide
to access it, the spin-up time might cause a pause in the sim.
Rgds,
Mark R.
On Wed, 9 Dec 1998 08:23:38 -0500, "David Erb"
> Couple questions for Mark R: I have a fixed size swap file of 300 MB that
>*seems* to work OK for all of my applications and games( especially GPL).
>Why do you call a fixed swap file a "worst case"? Am I missing out on some
>benefit? Also: what is APM?
> Thanks
>David Erb
>>Sounds like Windows is working on the swap file. Defrag your
>>hard drive and make sure you've got at least 500MB of free space
>>on it. I doubt FDISK or Win98 would help (any more than a defrag
>>would). Losing the sound is probably a GPL bug, but if you can
>>get rid of the hourglass then you'll probably be rid of the
>>trigger for this as well. Worst case, set your own swap file of
>>about 200-400MB (same size for min _and_ max), thereby disabling
>>Windows automatic control of this. Also try disabling APM if
>>nothing else helps.
>>On Tue, 8 Dec 1998 22:20:17 -0500, "Luis and Maribel Soto"
>>>I don't know if anyone here has this problem...
>>>I'm driving for a while during training, and then I hear my hard disk
>>>spinning, like it's trying to read something, then the game "stutters" (I
>>>even get an "hourglass"), stops for a few seconds, and then I lose ALL
>>>sound. Pressing escape and enter gets me out of the***pit, and then I
>>>have sound again. Maybe it's just me, but the darn thing happens just
>when
>>>I start getting in my rythm...
>>>I don't have anything running in win98: I've deleted "findfast" from the
>>>start menu, as well as all the tasks in the task scheduler. Still
>happening.
>>>My system:
>>>PII 266
>>>Asus P2L97 MB, 64MB SDRAM
>>>Hercules Thriller 3D 8MB, AGP
>>>SCSI HDD
>>>Running Win98
>>>GPL is a full install, running at 600x800, most graphic options, except
>>>driver's arms, track and cars only in the mirrors. Anti-aliasing is on.
>>>FWIW, I'm getting consistent 36fps, 24 on the grid.
>>>Please help me, before I fdisk my drive and just install win98 and GPL -
>and
>>>the heck with everything else!!
>>>L.S.
