On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 07:08:35
penned this whopper in microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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I'm not sure where else to post this, but I know MS folks
cruise it
regularly so any help appreciated.
Combat Flight Simulator CFS1 loads VERY slowly -
especially when it says
"Please wait while mission loads".
Now, I'm running a Celeron 600 on a CUSL2 MOBO w/ 512 Meg
ram & 32 meg
GeForce 2 video card.
I'm running WinME with all the latest video drivers,
direct x 9, windows
updates etc.
I've scanned & defragged, run MSConfig & shut down all
but Explorer to no
avail.
I've disabled the intro movie & edited the .exe file with
a hex editor to
not require the CD to run it, so the cdrom won;t be a
choke point.
I've monkey'd with the Swap file & system.ini file : here
are the various
snippets:
[386Enh]
ebios=*ebios
woafont=dosapp.fon
device=*dynapage
device=*vcd
device=*vpd
device=*int13
display=*vdd,*vflatd
mouse=*vmouse, msmouse.vxd
EMMExclude=C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF
PagingDrive=C:
MinPagingFileSize=1024000
device=*enable
MaxPagingFileSize=1024000
[vcache]
MaxFileCache=524288
I also tried & removed this line:
ConservativeSwapFileUsage=1
Nothing really seems to make any difference - except the
vcache causes the
menu screens to react much better.
Is there some hardware or driver compatibility issue
here? Is directx9
trying to emulate directx6 and takes a while to do some
kind of conversions?
The hard drive isn't going nuts while this is loading
either.
.start,settings,taskbar and start menu/advanced/the
other advanced/
programs/cut and hack through them i usually put them back
in their folders in My Documents/ or delete them (usually
copys with arrows anyway.)
Look at Reboot. anonymous Sept 22,2004 11:22 P.M. page #2
for MS DOS tools method
unhook and kill zip drive its your slowest drive
maybe A: Drive also ??? its slow could be a bottle
neck ????
your only as fast as your slowest drive
try a blue laser reader
change your 33 ATA ribbon cables up to the the round ones
they are ATA 100 or faster
bigger HD with a faster seek time
cable or sat modem ,different board, faster bridges, gigs
of ram , the list goes on and on
:) Randy
The A drive should not affect this, as it is a separate bus.
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"Time will bring to light whatever is hidden;
it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor."
Horace (65 - 8 BC); Roman poet.
Mike
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