3DS Woes (why so slow???
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I have lusted after 3DS ever since I heard of it, and finally an ancient
version (1.something) lands in my lap. Loaded it on a 486-DX2 50v with 8 megs
of ram and tons of hard drive room, and it would open but wouldn't run. Bought
another 4 meg of ram, and now it runs, kind of, but should it have taken almost
2 hours to draw the toroid in the opening tutorial? I think not! Never even
got to color it or add lights/camera. WHAT AM I DOING WRONG that it's soooo
sloooooww? Help! I'm desparate to play with it!
Also, is there such as thing as an upgrade? How do I get it?!
Susan
Well, first the obvious…
Make sure your cache is enable (internal and external) Local bus
video? Make sure you're in turbo… (No, I'm not trying to insult
you) Once you are absolutely sure that you machine is running as fast
as it can… take a sladgehammer to your harddrive… er just
kidding…. v1.x is going to be slow anyway, but I don't think it's
that slow. Watch for a 2, it's resonable speed wise. Maybe someone
else in here can help. Best Wishes Chris Norman
Chris, all my settings (turbo, cache, video bus) are all okay — I might take
you up on the sledgehammer idea, though, because it's just so frustratlingly,
PAINFULLY slow! Where does one find a version 2? Can you upgrade these
things? I tried reloading it on a different drive, but it's the same thing.
I've waited SO LONG to get my hands on 3DS, and now this! Thank heavens I have
an animator pro to play around with! THAT runs FINE!
Thanks anyway!
Susan
Hi Susan,
I don't know the full story about your probs, but the SLOW-ness you are finding
sounds like the old HIMEM problem.. Try booting your machine with the HIMEM.SYS
and EMM386.* commands deleted.
Let me know if it works,
Regards,
Mark