This is unrelated to this particular problem, but I'd recommend that you
remove "Fast Find" from your startup folder in Windows.
This little program, installed mostly by default by MS Office, searches your
drives and can cause heavy disk activity at the most inconvenient times. But
like I said, I'm sure this is *not* the cause in this case, but I always
make sure this program never gets loaded on my computers.
--Windleaf
> -----Original Message-----
> From: RaceFace [mailto:bean@...]
> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 4:14 PM
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> Subject: Re: [eqbards] mip = many innapropriate pictures?
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> From: "RaceFace" <bean@...>
>
> Get more RAM. :) I don't get ANY disk thrashing when zoning.
> It accesses
> the HD for 1 or 2 seconds a couple of times, but sure doesn't
> thrash. I
> have 256Megs. Odd that you'd get D3D freezing with SCSI..
> since SCSI puts
> even less of a burden on the CPU than IDE does.
>
>
> > Well, like I said, there's the annoying thing about Direct3D
> > freezing when there's heavy disk activity, causing the mouse
> > to go into accelerated mode. I cannot begin to count the
> > number of times I've zoned, started running and turned, the
> > disk (SCSI) grinds to load data, and instead of turning 90
> > degrees I get whipped 180 and hit the zone again. I switch
> > back to Glide every now and then when I get frustrated with
> > this problem, but the framerate hit I take always makes me
> > switch back.
> >
> > I'll probably just end up buying a TNT2 or a GeForce.
>
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