Question for the Matrox Guys

[dneal]

Hey there Rom or Haig.

I've noticed a strange delay with redrawing the desktop (wallpaper bmp) which was never present with my old TNT. If I minimize everything down to the desktop, it takes my computer a few seconds to redraw the desktop wallpaper. This delay was never present with my old TNT.

I originally thought it was because I was using a JPG wallpaper, I converted it to BMP, no help. I tried several different wallpapers varying in size, no help there either.

What's up?





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ABIT BH6 rev 1.0, Pentium 2 SL2W8 300MHz -> 464MHz, 192MB SDRAM, Toshiba 6X DVD,
Matrox Millenium G400 DH @ 150/200, <b>Creative SBLive Value</b>, 3Com Fast Etherlink XL PCI
Supermicro SC70 ATX 235watt PS,Panasonic Panasync S17

[dneal]

Oh, BTW, overclocked vs. defaults have no effect.


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ABIT BH6 rev 1.0, Pentium 2 SL2W8 300MHz -> 464MHz, 192MB SDRAM, Toshiba 6X DVD,
Matrox Millenium G400 DH @ 150/200, <b>Creative SBLive Value</b>, 3Com Fast Etherlink XL PCI
Supermicro SC70 ATX 235watt PS,Panasonic Panasync S17

[Smiff]

Tut tut. You are a Naughty Boy!

we shouldn't be wasting our valuable RAM on such follies as windows wallpaper. Get rid of it. Now!

Problem solved

Smiff

[Haig]

How big is that bmp and is your hard drive crunching away when the redraw is happening?

Haig

[This message has been edited by Haig (edited 13 October 1999).]

[Paradox]

did you disable active windows?

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PII 450@522 (4.5*117 using a modified Tennmax P3TF)
Matrox G400 vanilla/5ns@ 167/209
Diamond MX300
256Mb pc100 ram
10gb WD
generic 10/100 NIC

[dneal]

Well the wallpaper is about 3MB but that wasn't a problem with the TNT. I haven't noticed any hard drive grinding. I defrag every couple days and have at least a gig free.

[Zwisch]

3MB?? woah! You better love that picture since this must be slowing down everything... i agree with the others... remove this at once!! Also have you trued disabling some feature in teh Matrox drivers such as bitmap caching?

Z

[Beachman]

I encountered a problem like once. The problem occurred because the wallpaper was being stretched.

I fixed the problem by resizing the bitmap to 1024x768 (or whatever resolution you use) and then setting the display dropdown box to "center".

See if that fixes your problem.