Subj : Re: Bre cpu issue followu
To   : Scott Adams
From : Andy Alt
Date : Tue Nov 02 2004 04:03 pm

On 11/2/2004 4:02 PM, SCOTT ADAMS wrote to ANDY ALT:

-> <b>MSGID: 1:112/91.0 41858c0b</b>
-> <b>PID: BWTG 3.11 [Eval]</b>
-> <b>TID: GE 1.2</b>
->  -=> Quoting Andy Alt to Scott Adams <=-
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->  AA> @MSGID: 1:14/250 a7cf3296
->  AA> -[ SCOTT ADAMS tossed some words to ANDY ALT on 10-07-04 21:06 ]-
->  
->  -=> Quoting Andy Alt to All <=-
->  
->  AA> @MSGID: 1:14/250 378f25d1
->  AA> I believe I have solved the cpu issue regarding the BRE games for the
->  AA> system I work on.
->  
->  AA> First, I noticed in the autoexec.nt file that the command lh dosx was
->  AA> in  there. But running lh by itself only reported a bad command or file
->  AA> name  -- or the 2k equivalent :)
->  
->  AA> I made some minor changes to the config.nt file
->  
->  AA> dos=high,umb
->  AA> device=himem.sys
->  AA> shell=command.com /p /e:4096
->  AA> files=75
->  
->  AA> Note that I'm not specifying any paths here, just throwing out the
->  AA> gist of  it. Let me know if details are needed.
->  
->  AA> Now for the kicker, what *really* made the difference and possibly the
->  AA> only thing that was required.
->  AA> The file _default.pif, I went to the "misc" section, and right there
->  AA> is a  setting to allocate cpu resources. I set the slider bar almost
->  AA> all the way  to the right.
->  
->  AA> Anyway, hope this helps; it's quite a relief for me.
->  
->  AA> I found some of this information at
->  AA> http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBA/tip0100/rh0151.htm
->  
->  
->  SA>         If not..how high is your buffers?  You might want
->  SA>         to play with the Stack command in the config which
->  SA>         assigns local stack space (ie when a program shells
->  SA>         it uses a reserved amount of space).  Loading things
->  SA>         high also helps in autoexec.bat
-> 
-> 
->  AA> Thanks for the input.  We haven't had any problems since I changed the
->  AA> properites of _default.pif.
-> 
->         How would that change things?  That's ...interesting...hrmmmm

I thought I had explained that. Changing the slider for the allocation of cpu
resources is what I think helped the most. BRE takes up cpu usage when it waits
for a keypress. Hopefully that routine to wait for a keypress will be changed
with the next update.
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