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| Posted on 21-Jun-2003 02:25 GMT by Christophe Decanini | 58 comments
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It has been two and half a month since I bought my Pegasos.
I used it almost every day and wrote a review that you can find
here.
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| My Pegasos / MorphOS review : Comment 39 of 58 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Kjetil on 21-Jun-2003 22:46 GMT | In reply to Comment 38 (Atheist2):
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Hello Kjetil,
Although I'm not fully acquainted with how hardware works, I do know that:
Direct x 8.1 needs 65 megs of harddisk space.
Then the video card needs some unknown ridiculous sized driver. As does the sound card, I imagine.
*/
Most of the suff that comes with install packages are images, music and stupid programs mpeg/avi videos, you have no use for, on Creative Install CD you find games lots of crap,
there are several otter factors that make things big, example programs that are compiled with static library's bundles dlls inside the executable, one otter factor is the capability issue as thing evolve developers thens to keep the old code for comparability reasons making the program increase in size every time they change some thing. There is allows the fact that developers have different background they like to do things there way, so there is lots of reinventing the wheel development, there is otter things as well VB programs are not really compiled, just like Amos program they are interpreted, and just like AMOS the VB programs have larger file size the programs compiled i C++, VB programs are where poplar in windows due to the short development time it take to make program, how ever VB programs take lots of CPU if you are not thinking when you type, every running programs effects the total performance of the OS.
then again 65 MB of storage is not extreme this days, 120GB hard-drives cost less the 200 euros, guess you can start wondering where all this 65Mb are used.
// My MSI G Force 4 4600 only has 128 megs of ram.
You need alot of ram to store the big texture used in quality games and remember the textures stored on videocard is not compressed, think 24bit BMP images,
/* Then theres, can't I find even ONE piece of software that works "out of the box"? */
You need to pick the just the right driver when you install, using 2000 driver in XP is not good thing try finding the driver for you OS then tings gets better, there are things that are changed from windows to windows,
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Guess what? It doesn't work! When I face a person, and they are talking, I don't hear anything (just background sound/music). When I turn 90 degrees, left or right, I hear them perfectly! There's your PC "standards" in action. I have and Audigy sound card and a P4 @ 2.26 GHz. Name brand stuff, yet, Totally useless.
*/
I don't understand what the problem is guess it is driver issue try removing the old drivers an get some fresh once from the Internet is normally helps, there can allows be some configuration issue.
if you think your XP is preforming poorly try changing to standard look and turn of all this textures it will help the performance, this textures fills up the memory and the use some extra CPU power to be rendered on the screen.
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Laugh at custom hardware, and by all means complain about it being expensive, but remember; it's reliable!
*/
there is no need to upgrade drivers if there is no drivers, an the otter thing is when you have standard hardware for you OS, you can be shore the OS tuned for the hardware,
one example is Mac; they use standard hardware and no once is complaining even if it's basically the same hardware as used on PC, the drivers are included with the OS so the user never notice there existence.
There is one more factor if you are used to AmigaOS you know how to fix the problems when you have them then they do not appearer as if they where a problem in the first place. |
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