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Re: Sorry but...
Reply #15 - 11.09.02 at 20:33:17
 
...Just like me  Grin

The mem problem with not detecting a used XMS value is definitive a qemm bug. Himem reports 127M XMS with 127MB XMS available while 0MB XMS used.. QEMM reports 64MB XMS with 127MB  XMS available while ? MB XMS used. 64-127 =  Lips Sealed

By the way... ( i think i listen to Red Hot Chili Peppers too much  Wink ) Never set MTRR to the Voodoo1 FRAMEBUFFER. I tried Carmageddon with MTTR set via SETK6D and it crashed. Usinfg SETKK6D on the ATI improves LFB Acces a bit (checked with vspeed) but it doesn't speed up any "real" application.

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Board: Asus CUSL-2-C (Chipset: Intel i815), CPU: Intel PIII 933, RAM: 2 Infineon 128MB (1 PC133-333, 1 PC133-222) and 1 Infineon 256MB (PC 333-333) SD-RAM, Video: 3dfx Voodoo 3 3000 AGP, TV: LifeView FlyKit (Chipset: BT848, Tuner: No), Sound: Creative Labs Soundblaster PCI 512, NET: 3COM Etherlink XL Combo OS: Windows 98SE with SESP21D, Video Driver: 1.07.00 with GLIDE and OGL from 1.07.00b
 
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Reply #16 - 13.09.02 at 23:02:46
 
Interesting.  I do run some DOS glide games here with FastVid (by accident really since it's just part of the set up I end up applying to the Windows shortcut using Microsoft's Doswzcfg.exe kernel toy) but it's not supposed to do anything on an Intel chipset with a Voodoo2.  Maybe I should benchmark or look at fps to see.  I'll have to look to see how to get the frame rate in one of the games (3dfx Shadow Warrior is probably the best bet since Duke 3D supports this) since VSpeed won't help with glide.

I spend so much time tweaking and discovering such irrelevancies that I've taken to writing notes to myself, as well as making backups, to help set it all up again when I reinstall. Smiley
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Reply #17 - 14.09.02 at 17:14:41
 
True!

But if I would only put half the effort into "real life" that I put into tweaking this machine I'd be a millionaire by now Smiley.   Sadly nobody ever got rich by fiddling with a TSR's parameters in an autoexec.bat file.

Happiness though.  That's another thing entirely!  Grin
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Reply #18 - 07.10.02 at 19:10:34
 
32K more!!! I remebered Qemm using the f000-f7ff (with most award-bioses) part of the BIOS (the bios setup program not needed at runtime is there) for umb. I made a suggetion to the author of UMBPCI and he opened the limit. Well, there is one disadvantage: Soft Reboot (Affengriff in german) does not work anymore, i think because the shadowram is not copied again and tthere are some routines at f000-f7ff that are needed for init at reboot. The version he sent me is v3.42 but it seems to be beta because it is not on his website yet. I'll try the version on the computes of my friends to give him some feedback.

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Reply #19 - 07.10.02 at 21:28:27
 
32K!  Shocked

You're very privileged getting to help Uwe Sieber with UMBPCI.  It's the last DOS memory utility still under development and my favourite for XMS and memory extenders.

I watch its progress with interest since the last/fastest chipsets it fully supports will probably be the point where DOS legacy support effectively ends on the PC.  And that's the point where I keep a second system for DOS (and glide) compatibility!

I've levelled off the performance of my memory managers with EMS/Page Frame and all drivers loaded.  I decided I'd use SHSUCDX.EXE instead of MSCDEX.EXE where necessary and now I've got-

QEMM    629K
386MAX      627K
Netroom      624K
EMM386      623K

Coincidentally, if these were scores, this is about how I'd rate the programs overall for ease of use, interface and configurability.  It's also about what level they were developed to.  I have a particular soft spot for 386MAX (and, since no one else will read this, I'll tell you that if you were to send a polite begging email to the webmaster www.qualitas.com he will probably send you a link to a legitimate copy of the final version of the program!).  Notice too, when compared to my earlier "scores", that it's the Microsoft environment that benefits most from the substitution of Microsoft's own CD-ROM extensions with something third-party! Grin
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Reply #20 - 12.10.02 at 21:33:00
 
Sorry for writing so late PROCERUS. I was fanatic configureing my 286 NEAT and my 486 but i always had compatibility problems after tweaking the last out of the 640K. I remember NovelDOS7,4DOS, NWCDEX, CLOAKING (DPMS) and CorelCDX making many problems of that kind so when i got Internet and a Pentium i only tewaked with the tools DOS7 has "onboard" and havn't searched the internet for that "dos-tweak" stuff. I know 386MAX and NETROOM only from the readme's of programs that don't run under VCPI. I really should give those tools you mention a try to clean the config.sys and autoexec.bat from M$  Wink

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