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Re: VMs: More on viewing SIDs

Hi Dennis,

At 00:49 04/06/2004 -0500, Dennis wrote: 
        Good.  A really stupid question.  I'm using IrfanView
on a limited PC, with Win98, a 440 MHz Pentium
processor, and 126 Mb of RAM.  IrfanView takes about 2
minutes to load one of these images, although it
quickly prints it.  Is this to be expected with an
image of this size, or do I need more RAM, or more
other resources?

I think that's probably about right, as Irfanview decompresses the whole image before it lets you play with it - by way of comparison, the browser viewer only decompresses what you're looking at.

Note that I would expect you to have to wait at least twice as long to load any fold-out folios - they're not only (say) twice the size, but (IIRC) Irfanview will use a lot of memory for them, probably more than your 128MB of RAM, and so will start to thrash virtual (hard-drive-based) memory.

Luckily CPUs and RAM are now fairly cheap, if you don't mind the trauma of upgrading your PC. :-)

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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