Re: XYWin hogs CPU

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

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