| From: | Neil Bothwick |
| Date: | 3 May 2001 at 11:08:21 |
| Subject: | Re: Screenswapping and burning CD's |
Richard said,
> --- In amigactive@y..., "Neil Bothwick" <neil@w...> wrote:
>> If your graphics card doesn't have enough memory to hold both screens,
>> each one will have to be loaded from fast RAM before switching. This is
>> done at high priority and can stop everything else for a second or so,
>> especially with a Zorro-II card.
> Yes, it's a Z2 card... The screen resolution I am using for IBrowse is
> currently 1152x900x16bit, which I assume would be chewing up a fair chunk of
> memory!)
And a lot of time to transfer the data over the slower Z-II bus.
Swapping between 1024x768x16 screens on my PicassoII could take up to
three seconds, more than enough to kill a CD.
> If I have for example, 3 Browser windows open on IBrowse, would each of them
> be using a chunk of 1152x900x16 memory space? How about the "tab" windows in
> IBrowse (say I have 2 in each of the browser windows)???
It's the screen image that takes the memory. It makes no difference
whether you have 20 windows with different backdrops or a single shell.
Cheers
Neil
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