You might be able to get it running on your new laptop, Ran. Check out this site: http://www.oldblivion.com/
Oblivion on older hardware
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Posts: 527 (10/29/09 12:12:29) |
It was worth it for his comment about a million dollars or a can of soup.
BTW I can send Morse code with a STRAIGHT KEY faster than post to this site. Beware the diddy-bops for they will overtake you. |
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Posts: 168 (10/29/09 17:00:33) |
TheGoodLife wrote:That just might have another explanation. When I booted my windows laptop today, it was very slow (in general) for a while. Checking Task Manager showed a svchost.exe process pigging out on CPU time and memory. ("svchost.exe" is one major misdesign of Windows -- many legitimate processes, doing diverse things, appear under this name. Because of this, malware also uses the name.). This has happened to me before, and from what I can tell it is the Automatic Update system. You just have to wait it out. AU's expensive (in terms of CPU time) checks are probably triggered by time. So this could well have gone off while you were trying to send your message. Note well: If entering text into a box on a website is slow -- then that is entirely a problem with your computer. If the Net is at fault, it will only cause delays in the initial load of the page, and after you click post. |
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Posts: 529 (10/29/09 22:48:22) |
So much denial.....
I'm not running Windows. And I still love Ran's "million dollars or a can of soup" comment. |
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Posts: 142 (11/02/09 18:53:14) |
A few things about the laptop:
1. CPU speed doesn't mean much for interactive tasks. SDRAM is so much slower than the CPU that it is what limits the speed of the typical task. You'll only notice the extra Ghz if you're doing something like matrix multiplications or raw number crunching. 2. X server matters. If your Xserver isn't accelerated, if it's only using VESA for a driver, it will be sloooooow. Most linuxes are good about recognizing and configuring X, but they don't cover all the cases. Not all video cards are supported equally either, and even the accelerated ones are unevenly written. Nvidia has the best drivers, hands down, although they are proprietary and binary only. 3. Memory matters. If there's one thing that's even sloower than SDRAM, it's the typical laptop hard drive. Those things usually only spin at 5400rpm, and they're designed more for power consumption than performance. You do not want to swap. |
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