I did the same thing and got the same results, and came to the conclusion
that I needed to haul out my old memory management 'config.sys' thingies so
I could take advantage of the 128 MB of RAM.

Never did bother doing that though.


Jean Montambeault <jrm### [at] videotronca> wrote in message
news:37335509.0@news.povray.org...
>
>         I've heard that so much that I just had to try it. So I installed
> POV for
> ms-dos and ran the "skyvase.pov" benchmark from booting into ms-dos.
> Results : 203 seconds. I ran it twice more checking that all the options
> were
> there as recommended : same thing. Now, in Win98, with nothing else
> running and the recommended options set it renders in 101-102 seconds
> (not quite as consistent). The margin is very significant. So, what am I
> doing wrong ?
>
>         My machine is new, a Celeron 366A non-overclocked with 128 Meg
RAM.
> such a difference... I just can't explain it otherwise but that there was
a
> lot of swapping
> through the HD ?
>
>         JM
>
>
>

> >personnally when i want to ensure my PC is giving POVray all it has, i
run
> >the dos version, it really does make a difference.
> >
> >
> >Rick
> >
> >
>
>

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