3DS slow on startup
12-Jul-95 20:22:12
Sb: #177326-3DS slow on startup
Fm: John Miles 70322,2457
To: Brian Rudolph [Adesk] 71722,170
It might also be the fact that for some incomprehensible reason, 3D Studio uses
the obsolete Phar Lap 386 DOS extender instead of one of the newer, faster, and
significantly cheaper (royalty-free) ones out there, such as FlashTek or
Rational. The Watcom compilers used to have the same problem under Phar Lap —
it would take several seconds just to get the compiler to run. Switching to
FlashTek fixed that in a hurry. It's truly weird that Autodesk still uses Phar
Lap 386.
I'll try ANTIVE.ZIP — it might help some, as I'm running a Mach 64 card as
well. But 3DS4 is still dog-slow starting up on a conventional Cirrus VGA!
— jm