I ran it in a DOS window under Windows ME.  I did not reboot to DOS.

Jim

"Geoff Wedig" <wed### [at] darwinepbicwruedu> wrote in message
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> Matt Giwer <jul### [at] ijnet> wrote:
>
> > Jim Kress wrote:
> >>
> >> Just got a new computer with Windows ME and was trying the POV
benchmark
> >> (skyvase.pov).  I ran it two ways using the Standard download of v3.1g
with
> >> the following results:
> >>
> >> 1) Windows ME command line   34 sec
> >> 2) POV  GUI                             43 sec
> >>
> >> Quite a large difference!
>
> >         The usual answer is the difference is the overhead of running a
windows
> > OS. About 25% and a bit high but that may be the new ME. It runs so many
> > things as cycle consuming processes that you have to expect this sort of
> > thing.
>
> >         Object oriented. The entire GUI screen is an object. That little
PPS
> > number in the bottom right is a daughter process. The entire screen is
> > updated for that little change. I didn't make it that way, Gates did.
>
> Was the first run in a dos window or in Dos (ie, restart computer in Dos
> only mode)?  Also, was the image displaying?  I've found that image
display
> takes up a large chunk of time for no reason that I can see, so I've taken
> to turning it off and only doing spot checks.
>
> Geoff

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