Re: DBUG> DataCAD 8.05 - Panning is slow

[John Cluver <cluver@dolphin.upenn.edu>]

> Domenic you hit the nail on the head. DCADWin suffers from hatching 
> and text regens mostly. If you can afford a PentiumII this will help 
> to a large degree, otherwise I'm afraid you will have to play with a 
> couple of settings that could speed up regens. For Instance in the 
> display menu turning ShowHatch off, setting SmallTXT and SmallSym to 
> about 8. You can also set arcfactor to 1 which will speed up regens 
> if you have used many curves in the drawing.

I haven't received my version yet (it's hopefully in the mail), but 
this could be problematic if a SOFTWARE upgrade requires a HARDWARE 
upgrade in order to maintain even the same level of performance.  I 
had planned to upgrade the graphics card to take advantage of the new 
drivers (so long to vesa256) but I'm worried that my Pentium 200 will 
still suffer a speed loss.  This alone would keep me from using the 
upgrade, because in my case it wouldn't be.

John Cluver
cluver@dolphin.upenn.edu
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