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*** Wintune 97 Release 1.0 (03/25/97-- Release Candidate) ***
Thank you for trying the Wintune 97 Release Candidate. This file lists
solutions to common problems you may have. Please
read it before posting questions. Thanks!
Wintune 97 is meant only for the release version
(build 950) of Windows 95 or later, and for
Windows NT 3.51 or later.
This release fixes some problems encountered in
the Video and disk tests, identifies newer kinds of processors,
and adds tips for SCSI drives. It also loads much
faster than the earlier version, and, in its Windows 95
version, it has a much smaller download size.
============
INSTALLATION
============
After you have downloaded the file, you must first
unzip it. You cannot double click on Setup.exe
in the Winzip window and have the setup operate
properly, because setup first needs all the files
expanded.
Run SETUP.EXE and follow the prompts. If Setup
determines that some of the files are already on
the system, or if Wintune is installed a second
time, the install progress bar won't always go
to 100%. This is "normal". Also, after the setup
runs there may be an empty button with no caption
on the task bar. Clicking it will make it go away.
This is "normal" too.
Missing DLLs
------------
If Wintune doesn't start and you get a message
you're missing MFCxxx.DLL, you do not have some
of the standard Windows support DLL files.
Under Windows 95, this may have happened because
Win95 was installed with Custom or Compact setup
options. You can nudge Win95 to install the needed
DLLs by installing WordPad. From Control Panel,
click Add/Remove Programs. Click the Windows Setup
tab and double-click Accessories. Scroll down to
the bottom of the list and check WordPad. OK your
way out to complete the installation.
Windows NT users should download the version
of Wintune specifically designed for Windows NT,
which contains the .DLLs you need to run Wintune
97 under NT 3.51 or later. Windows 95 users who
do not have access to their setup disks should
download the file WT97NT.ZIP. It includes the
extra files you need to run WT97 if your Windows 95
installation does not have them installed.
Windows NT users can also download WT97NT.ZIP if
you wish. The files it contains were not
included in our Windows 95 download package
because they more than double the total size of the current
Wintune download, and are often already on your
system. On Windows 95 these files should be placed
in the Windows SYSTEM directory; Windows NT needs
these files in the SYSTEM32 directory.
=======
SUPPORT
=======
Inside Wintune, you can generally get help on any
result or tip by clicking the Tell Me More button,
by double-clicking the item, or by right-clicking
and selecting Tell Me More. We've tried to make it
easy to get to the help file!
We'll be taking feedback and answering questions in
both the America Online and Compuserve WinMag forums
in the Wintune 97 folder/section. Since many people
have the same questions, you may find your questions
already answered there. Or E-mail us at
WINTUNE@WINMAG.COM.
Making a WTX file
-----------------
If you want to send your results to another user,
or send them to us so we can help diagnose a problem,
you need to produce a Wintune export (.WTX) file:
1) Start Wintune 97.
2) Click the Analyze Now button.
3) Wait until the testing is complete.
4) Select File/Export Current from the menu.
5) Type in a directory and file name.
The file you create is an ASCII (plain text) file in
a special format that Wintune can import into its
database. You can either attach it to a message, or
you can insert the text of the WTX file directly into
an email or forum message.
If you geta WTX file from another user, you can
import it into Wintune 97 by simply using Drag and
Drop. Either drag the file into the database tab,
or drag the file onto the Wintune 97 icon.
Note that the file must have the .WTX extension
or Wintune will not import it. You will not get
a warning, but the import will not work.
===============
System Analyzer
===============
* Wintune is reporting the BIOS information stored
in the Registry, but this appears to only be set
by Windows 95 upon installation. If you upgrade
the BIOS or switch the disk to a new system, the
new version info will not be reflected. Windows
NT updates this info each time it boots, so it
doesn't have this problem. This is a Win95 bug,
we may bypass them and do our own groping in a
future release.
============
CPU Analyzer
============
* Some 486DX2 and 486DX4 CPUs are reported simply
as 486DX. This is because those CPUs do not have
a way for software to determine internal versus
external clock rate. Newer models support a CPUID
instruction which specifies the CPU type.
* Wintune should now accurately report the
Cyrix 6x86 processors. It will identify a Cyrix
5x86, but may not properly report the clock speed
for these processors.
* Wintune should now properly identify AMD K5 and K6
processors but may not properly report their
clock rates. If you observe this situation, please
export a WTX file and send it to us, along with the
true clock speed of your system, at
WINTUNE@WINMAG.COM.
===============
Memory Analyzer
===============
* Wintune 97 gets its Installed RAM result from
Windows (NT or 95). However, Windows 95 does not
appear to count any memory that is used by DOS
device drivers or the BIOS itself (e.g. used for
ROM shadowing). This may cause the Installed RAM
reported to be lower than the actual amount of
installed RAM. We may bypass them and do our own
groping in a future release.
==============
Video Analyzer
==============
* The test used to run in a 640X480 window, but
it now runs in full-screen mode.
* The new video analyzer in Wintune 97 will give
results that are very different from those in
Wintune 95. Improvements in reported speed vary
about 50% for slower older systems to as much as
3x improvement in the newer faster systems.
We plan to publish guidance for estimating
the speed you should expect in Wintune 97 compared
to that in Wintune 95.
=============
Disk Analyzer
=============
* Both the cached and uncached tests may vary
by more than 10 percent on systems with less
than 10MB of RAM. This is due to swapping.
The problem will be worse if you have created
a large Wintune database, (Wtun97.wtd) so keep
the database small.
* Some systems give an uncached result that is
clearly not uncached. For example, the cached
result on one system was 13MB/s but "uncached"
was 14MB/s! This seems to occur with systems
using DOS compatibility (16-bit) drivers and
some third-party drivers. We're still checking
this problem out, and would like reports from
affected users.
* One user of an Adaptec 2942 SCSI controller
reported an uncached number of 0.8 MB/s but
copying a large file yielded a more credible
3 MB/s. This result comes about because of
write-behind caching of SCSI disks. We have
added a tip to apprise users of the apparent
inconsistency and possible remedies.
* If you see a change greater than about 10% from
the uncached disk score you received from
Wintune 95, please E-mail the .WTX file from
both programs for the same computer to
WINTUNE@WINMAG.COM
* You may get an inaccurate block size reported
in your results if you are running Windows 95
and if your disk is over 2GB. We use
Windows 95's function GedDiskFreeSpaceEx
to determine disk information, and the info
it returns, especially with such large disks,
is inaccurate. This will be fixed in an upcoming
release.
=============
Apps Analyzer
=============
* Instructions for building your own app tests
are included in the help file. Right-click
the Apps node in the Details tab and select
Tell Me More.
* Some times the apps analyzer hangs. There seems
to be no apparent pattern that would account for
this behavior. There is, however, one cause
we have been able to identify.
If you are running the Prank Fix
virus package for Word, you will get a dialog box
(that will be hidden). Since you don't respond,
this looks like the macro is hanging. ALT-TAB to
Word to see if this is the case. If the apps
hang in other places, please let us know.
==========
Help Files
==========
* For modularity, the help files are implemented
as separate files for each analyzer and a main
help file. Cross-file references have not been
implemented, so you need to start with an idea
of what (video, disk, CPU, memory) you want to
check out. Or you can browse all the help files
by going to the Details tab; for each analyzer
right-click the name and select Tell Me More.
* Help files have been updated for this
release.
* Right clicking on some tips in the Reports tab
will not pop up a context menu. If you want to
view the help item for that tip, go to the Details
tab and right click the tip there. That will bring
up the proper help item.
*** END OF README ***