Message-ID: Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 05:48:50 From: "Joseph Morris" To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Re: OpenDOS graphics drivers Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk > > > NT 4.0 has DirectX 2 (bits of it anyway) built into the operating > > > system. > > > WinQuake runs just as fast on NT 4.0 as it does on Win95... > > Not entirely true! > > Windows NT does more housekeeping than Windows 95 does. > > This makes it more stable, but less fast. > WinNT has a completely different kernel and will run 32 bit stuff > better than Win95... (mind you, I still have better multitasking > under DOS and LWP though... :) > I think the overhead of the 'housekeeping' is overestimated > by a lot of people... No. Win95 does its infernal 'housekeeping' while a video grab is taking place, completely ruining the result by introducing jitter that is entirely Microsoft's fault. The software will only run under '95 or possibly NT, but we need to stop this PITA if any titling is to be done. The system has 32MB ram and a 150Mhz cpu. It works perfectly so long as Win95 doesn't start doing that... > Leathal.