Re: XYWin hogs CPU

[Paul Breeze paul.breeze@xxxxxxxx]

Dear Harry
My initial query was regarding the old Xy-for-Windows product, which it
appears Tame does not affect. However having loaded it, I also tried it
out with XY4 with the effects I mention. I use a not standard
configuration in that I use more than 25 lines on screen. With a new,
19 inch LCD I want to be able to use 43 lines which would look great
with Tame's pseudo-full screen mode if I could get it to work reliably.
 How do you manage to get italics etc to work, by the way. So far I
have not been able to.

Paul
(As for using NB, that is probably the solution, but so far I have not
been able to put expense aside.)

Harry Binswanger wrote:
> Paul,
> You say XyWin--does that mean you are not using Xy4, but the old
> Xy-for-Windows product? If so, I missed that. Tame is for DOS's Xy4.
> On the other hand, if you are indeed using Xy4 (e.g., version 4.018) and
> you are getting the strange behavior you mention, I am at a loss
> (without being able to see what's actually going on on your particular
> system). Perhaps Michael Norman has a suggestion.
>
> Regards,
> Harry
> > Dear Harry
> > I have tried out Tame (both 5 and 6). As far as XyWin is concerned,
> > it makes no difference to the CPU hogging behaviour 'out of the box'.
> > I don't know if there are any settings I could tweak to achieve the
> > desired result, but it is not clear that there are.
> > With XY4, it appears in principle to offer the possibility of much
> > better screen appearance, as you have suggested. However I have found
> > a number of worrying artefacts that would make it currently unusable
> > for me unless they could be fixed.  Using Tame 5 in the pseude-full
> > screen mode (6 was a disaster with my setup) Alt-Tabbing between
> > different applications seemed to hop to something invisible (the Tame
> > console I assume) before actually going anywhere. I found this
> > extremely irritating. I would also want to be able to get rid of the
> > mouse pointer in full screen but I cannot make that stick. Supposedly
> > one can change on-screen colours and attributes but I can't make any
> > of those work either. So while the idea looks excellent, I find the
> > current realisation extremely flaky. Documentation is not very
> > helpful either and the author does not appear to respond to emails.
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > Harry Binswanger wrote:
> > > Yes and Yes.
> > > The cure is TameDOS.
> > > www.tamedos.com
> > > It's cheap, and there's a free trial.
> > > Xy under Tame is a much enhanced experience--it allows a lot of
> > > screen improving (as well as CPU saving).
> > > See the Archives for much discussion of Tame.
> > > > I don't specifically recall this being raised before with regard to
> > > > XYWin but I have recently noticed, having just built a quiet PC,
> > > > that when I run XYWin it acts like a CPU stress test, running
> > > > pushing the CPU to 100% and pushing up the CPU temperature which
> > > > sets my fans running faster so that eventually I can hear them
> > > > again. Is this normal with XYWin and if so, is there any cure?
> > > >
> > > > Paul Breeze
> > >
> > > Harry Binswanger
> > > hb@xxxxxxxx
>
>
> Harry Binswanger
> hb@xxxxxxxx