Moray Christmas to all

As you can see in the subject, I have a serious performance problem
with Moray3.1 on my NT4 installation.

First of all it`s a :
P133  with 64MB RAM
NT4 with no Service Packs,
loads of diskspace and no other applications running in the background

problems at all, and it still runs fine.

And this is what happened:
I installed Moray 3.1 in a new directory because I want to keep my
registered Version3.0 till I`m familiar with the new features and 
manage to install Povray3.1 without any errors(still no luck!)

After a reboot and start of Moray3.1 it shows a really slow
performance. Understand me right, this is MorayStart.mdl with no
objects but light and camera. If I rotate or transform the camera
there is no update of the 3Dview for a few seconds and mouse
movement is interrupted. It`s a pain to edit anything under these
circumstances. Closing menues and editors seems to take ages.

CPU usage behaviour seems normal to me; when Moray is idle it`s
down; when working it goes up and then down again.
Memory usage the same. Approx. 7MB RAM, 7MB vitual and 22MB free
to use.
I experimented with Moray memory handling but no change so far.

Then I tried to install Moray on my WIN95b partition and now guess
what happened..........it runs fine !..................DAMNED !
This WIN95 is a _gaming only_ installation and therefore no solution
for my problem.


desktop plate won`t do the trick either.

Any suggestions?

thanks for listening...

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Bernd Klenk
bkl### [at] dillingenbaynetde

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NT4 has its 4th service pack available.  I would recommend installing
service packs 1, 2 and 3.  Service pack 4 is very new - I wouldn't recommend
it just yet.


Bernd Klenk wrote in message <368### [at] newsstmuccom>...
>
>Moray Christmas to all
>
>As you can see in the subject, I have a serious performance problem
>with Moray3.1 on my NT4 installation.
>
>First of all it`s a :
>P133  with 64MB RAM
>NT4 with no Service Packs,

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In the Moray tips I saw something about sluggish performance, even with an
empty scene.  It's effected by the colour settings for your desktop (256,
High, True colour etc.).  Cycle through the tips till you see the relevant
one - it offers some help on correcting the problem (by editing a setting in
Moray's registry entry..)


Hope that helps,

Matt

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Mike Weber wrote in message <3682682b.0@news.povray.org>...
>NT4 has its 4th service pack available.  I would recommend installing
>service packs 1, 2 and 3.  Service pack 4 is very new - I wouldn't
recommend
>it just yet.


I have SP4 installed after running SP3 since day-1. I haven't noticed
anything *truly* anomalous after insalling SP4--except for this:

Whenever my box boots, the "New Hardware Found" dialogue comes up. Checking
the "don't install new software and don't show me this dialogue again" has
no effect-- At every boot, there it is.

I'm living with it.

Mike

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Mike Weber wrote:

> NT4 has its 4th service pack available.  I would recommend installing
> service packs 1, 2 and 3.  Service pack 4 is very new - I wouldn't recommend
> it just yet.

I agree.  I would install a service pack 3 on NT, but you don't need to install
1 and 2 as well.  Service packs are inclusive, not incremental.

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I don`t believe it. You were absolutely right.
I searched the tips twice before but somehow I overlooked the 
relevant one.
Seems my 2MB Mystique is a little bit overaged by now, and
Moray3.0 doesn`t show this behaviour. So it didn`t cross my mind
to respond to that little tip.

Thanks a lot
Christmas spirit is back again !

Bernd


On Thu, 24 Dec 1998 16:25:31 -0000, "Matthew Bennett"
<ben### [at] btinternetcom> wrote:

>In the Moray tips I saw something about sluggish performance, even with an
>empty scene.  It's effected by the colour settings for your desktop (256,
>High, True colour etc.).  Cycle through the tips till you see the relevant
>one - it offers some help on correcting the problem (by editing a setting in
>Moray's registry entry..)
>
>Hope that helps,
>
>Matt

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Hi Bernd Klenk, you recently wrote in moray.win:

> After a reboot and start of Moray3.1 it shows a really slow
> performance. Understand me right, this is MorayStart.mdl with no
> objects but light and camera. If I rotate or transform the camera
> there is no update of the 3Dview for a few seconds and mouse
> movement is interrupted. 
For a few seconds.... Well it sounds like the problem that V3.0 had
with POV-Ray 3.1. But closing POV-Ray and clicking on Reset Comms DLL
will fix that. I can't imagine that the desktop color depth could be
the problem. Or was it?

- Lutz
  email : lut### [at] stmuccom
  Web   : http://www.stmuc.com/moray

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On Sat, 26 Dec 1998 16:32:44 GMT, lut### [at] stmuccom (Lutz Kretzschmar)
wrote:

>Hi Bernd Klenk, you recently wrote in moray.win:
>
>> After a reboot and start of Moray3.1 it shows a really slow
>> performance. Understand me right, this is MorayStart.mdl with no
>> objects but light and camera. If I rotate or transform the camera
>> there is no update of the 3Dview for a few seconds and mouse
>> movement is interrupted. 

>For a few seconds.... Well it sounds like the problem that V3.0 had
>with POV-Ray 3.1. But closing POV-Ray and clicking on Reset Comms DLL
>will fix that. I can't imagine that the desktop color depth could be
>the problem. Or was it?
>
>- Lutz

Yes...it was the problem....at least I think so.

My desktop was running at 16bits on a Mystique with 2MB, and as
mentioned in the tipssection I added the DWORD value to my registry.

In my case:
BitsFor16BPP	0x00000020(32)

and Moray speed was back to normal. Well, maybe not back the way it
was with V3.0 but it is much more better now. Perhaps it needs a
little more twisting and tweaking with the settings..........I hope!

BTW, there was no Povray running in the background !

Bernd

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Bernd Klenk
bkl### [at] dillingenbaynetde

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