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voidmain:
Hmmm, what was the speed of your processor and what kind of disk bandwidth did you have? I should have rephrased my memory thing. Linux will run pretty good on a low end Pentium with lots of RAM and it will run on a 1600 with ata100 and little memory fairly well but performance is greatly reduced on slower machines if apps have to swap.
badkarma:
and if you really want to speed up your KDE use the object prelinker, bewarned though, you'll need to compile KDE yourself which is not quite easy for the casual computer user
http://leon.bottou.com/objprelink/
still haven't had time to do it myself though, so I can't tell you about the exact increase in speed but I heard good things about it.....
jtpenrod:
quote: Hmmm, what was the speed of your processor and what kind of disk bandwidth did you have?
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It was a Pentium II (232MHz). The HD had just a tad over 2.0GB. As to the actual BW, I'm not sure, however, it couldn't've been all that high. This was a 6 year old Dell and 32MB of RAM and 2.0GB on the hard drive was something in those days. I'm surprised it ran Mandrake at all, let alone at how well it worked.
badkarma:
Hmm ... I did a comparison between the Linux and Windows version of Return To Castle Wolfenstein, here are my specs and results:
Athlon 1400Mhz @ 1553Mhz
Asus a7m266 mainboard
1024Mb ddr ram
NVidia geforce 3
c-media soundcard
suse 7.3
windows xp
windows xp first time start up:
25secs
linux first time startup:
8secs
windows restarts:
12-13secs
linux restarts:
2-3 secs
The 23.11 nvidia drivers are a bit buggy under windows (had some artefacts with wolfenstein under xp, which was quite ugly) while they work perfectly under linux, so framerate under linux is a lot better (technically it's the same but I have anti aliasing on under linux, if I turn that off it's a lot faster then under windows ;) )
oh, allmost forgot, under windows it takes 20 (!) seconds to close RTCW, under linux it exits instantly.
[ February 01, 2002: Message edited by: BadKarma ]
voidmain:
Hey can you blame XP? It was probably confused by all that memory. (-;
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