| From: | Alan Sheriff |
| Date: | 19 Aug 2000 at 22:23:57 |
| Subject: | Re: God has an Amiga :) |
Hi
> >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.
I wonder if P96 uses up a lot of memory. Anyone else know?
> >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.
Well I do have a background pattern, but the PicassoII will only
display 1024x768 in 8 bit - 256 colours :(
> >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.
Can I have CGX3 installed at the same time as P96? I don't want to
have to uninstall P96 to see if there's any change, but if it won't
mess things up too much I don't mind giving it a
try.
Al.
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