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Number   :  5034
Date     :  2003-07-15
Author   :  Charles Knox
Subject  :  Re: *OT* (Off topic) WIN98SE SLOW DOWN
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At 08:30 PM 14/07/2003 +1000, Michael Marquart wrote:
>On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 21:05:27 -0500, Chris Kahney wrote:
>
>> Believe it or not XP Pro would run better on a 300mhz w/ 128megs than 98
does
>
>This is certainly not true on a 500MHz w/256 Meg so I don't know why it
>should be so on a 300 MHz with 128 Meg. I capture video on such a PC and
>can't do it with the XP Pro OS because it slows down the PC to the point
>that real time capture can't take place, like it can on the 98 OS.
>If you think differently then all I can say is you haven't tried it.
>

Michael, I couldn't agree more!

I could (and did) capture video with no dropped frames via Firewire on the
AMD K6-400 under '98SE with 192MB of EDO RAM and IDE drives -- it could
just barely cope, but it got there.

No way will it even look like doing so on the same hardware under XP, and
I'd hate to try video editing.

For some time I had it dual-booted with both OS's -- '98 would still
capture video as it did when it had the machine to itself, and XP would not.

Then '98 irretrievably crashed (caused by my fiddling with the dual-boot
setup -- I *will* fix things that ain't broke), I wiped the entire system
and put only XP on it and guess what? -- it's now even slower.

I just read Chris Kahney's reply to my post and can only say he must know
something I don't -- and I'm not unfamiliar with the sources he quotes,
either.

I note, however that his experience appears to be with Win2000, not XP --
and there *is* a difference.

2000 isn't anywhere near as bloated as XP, which starts a lot more
background services, all of which occupy system time.

With my current main machine (a Athlon 1.33GB with a gig of RAM and 120GB
of RAID 0 -- now over 2YO) I hardly know I'm alive!

Video capture is just another background task, no 2GB file limits, no need
to devote the entire machine to it -- even handles video copying on-the-fly
at 4X with room to do other tasks at the same time.

Since this topic is very much OT, I won't carry it further.

Charles



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