| From: | Neil Williams |
| Date: | 19 Aug 2000 at 20:26:24 |
| Subject: | Re: God has an Amiga :) |
Hi Alan,
Remember <OUT-399E761D.MD-1.4.4.alansheriff@ukonline.co.uk>?
>However, I do have one problem, It seems to eat up a hell of a lot of
>Fast Ram. I have a Blizzard 1260, with 16mb. When I used to run in
>multiscan prod. 128 colours I had about 12-13mb of fast ram left, but
>the display was slow.
I lose a lot on my 16MB machine with P96 too, about the same amount in fact.
>Now running in 1024x768,256 cols. it's a little quicker, but on
>startup I have only 6.5 - 7.5 mb of fast left. Reducing the resolution
>helps a little but I still lose 7-8 mb. Is this normal?
That screenmode should use 786,432 bytes of fast RAM. P96 seems to keep a
copy in fast even if it's in use on the gfx card - for good reasons though. I
don't know where the rest of the memory goes; you should lose some extra due
to background patterns and the like being rendered in full 24bit, but not that
much.
>I'm using Picasso96, but this is the only software I've added since
>installing the gfx card.
I do remember installing CGX 3 and gaining some memory back.. I can't test it
now as the installation doesn't seem to be working.
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