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Ani loads slowly

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#145830From: Carlton NewtonJan 9, 1995 9:55 PM

Brian- There has recently been a small exchange here on the Asoft forum about the problem some of us have experienced in AniPro loading very slowly. Do any of the Adesk support staff have any idea what causes the problem and/or what we might do to correct it? I don't have my config or autoexec files with me tonight at home, but the problem is the following: when trying to enter Ani.exe it takes a long time for the program to come up…about 2.5 mins. on my Gateway 486-66 EISA with a SCSI 500 Mb Hd and 32 Megs of RAM. I'm using anipro to playback long (20mb) animations from 3DS in RAM. I notice a large temp file in PAAT. Is it possible that I'm just waiting for the temp file to load? Can I delete this temp file from my HD? Thanks, Carlton

#145925From: Brian Rudolph [Adesk]Jan 10, 1995 12:50 PM

<<There has recently been a small exchange here on the Asoft forum about the problem some of us have experienced in AniPro loading very slowly. Do any of the Adesk support staff have any idea what causes the problem and/or what we might do to correct it?>> Slow load times are almost always the result of memory manager configurations. i would try experimenting with removing or using different memory managers, and removing or changing the various switches on the command line. -Brian

#145926From: Brian Rudolph [Adesk]Jan 10, 1995 12:51 PM

<< Can I delete this temp file from my HD?>> Sure. Delete it from the PAAT directory. In the future you can prevent the creation of that file by selecting Abondon instead of YES when you exit the program. -Brian

#145928From: Gayle G de N, SAVANTESJan 10, 1995 1:07 PM

Coincidentally, it takes exactly 2.5 min to load on the same type of sys here. I still think this has something to do with DOS 6.2, as I did not have this problem when running 6.0. This is true with the temp file deleted, too.

#146087From: Nik Grant [adesk]Jan 11, 1995 9:23 AM

Carlton (and others) Have you tried the suggestion in the README.DOC which comes with the current Animator about CFIG386 ANI.EXE -MAXV 0 ? (That last item is zero) I haven't been able to get it to run as a DOS application under Windows though. If you try it, make a copy of ANI.EXE first.

#146473From: Carlton NewtonJan 13, 1995 1:13 AM

What? You mean read the Docs? (g) Thanks, I'll check it out. Carlton

#146434From: Randy SteeleJan 12, 1995 8:27 PM

I think you will find that the dos 6.2 emm386.exe to be your problem. Instead of calling for C:\dos\emm386.exe use the windows version (and for himem.sys too) c:\windows\emm386.exe You'll be back to your quick load time after this change. Joe

#146471From: Carlton NewtonJan 13, 1995 1:13 AM

Thanks for the suggestion Joseph. I'm going to try and sort things out Friday. Carlton