Arev 3.12 seems slow on new Win 2k workstation any ideas??? (AREV Specific)
At 02 MAY 2001 04:19:28PM John Wood wrote:
In bringing up a new workstation using Windows 2000 my Arev application seems a bit slow. Are there any settings/adjusments to pif's, arev, Win2000 that enhance it's speed on this platform?? Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
At 02 MAY 2001 05:48PM Matt Sorrell wrote:
John,
Have you tried searching the list yet? I remember a number of threads about performance under NT/2k. I believe some of the issue has to do with keyboard polling, and with yielding time to Windows. ARev 3.12 has a setting that will allow it to yield to Windows, and there are several utilities available (TAME is one, I believe), that will keep ARev from killing the CPU with keyboard polling loops.
HTH,
msorrel@greyhound.com
At 04 MAY 2001 07:09AM [url=http://www.sprezzatura.com]The Sprezzatura Group[/url] wrote:
The problem is that timeslicing and thread management has been re-written on Win2000 (subsequent to NT) and this makes DOS
applications a little slower when they poll for keystrokes or run tight loops (as AREV does).
First, inside AREV, set "Yield Time to Windows" active.
Set the idle sensitivity on the WIndows shortcut to 80%, enable background processing, enable screensavers and run the application in full screen mode if possible (i.e. 25 x 80).
Ensure that the default Windows printer is set and
switched on when you enter AREV.
Disable virus scanners from scanning files with *.OV suffixes.
If you still have issues please contact us - we have been able to resolve the performance constraints simply in 99% of cases, hardware
and background Windows processes permitting.
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