Posted by Mr SaLTy on 24, 2000 at 7:17 AM:
In Reply to: HELP. .Andy, Mr. Salty, Brian or anyone else w/ great computer experience. . posted by -Ace- on 24, 2000 at 4:36 AM:
Are you running in pure DOS or a windows9x DOS box?
: I have a strange problem going on that has been with me know for the last
: 2 Arcadeos's. I run Arcadeos to my arcade monitor (first time)
: evrything runs fine. . I then quit out of it(fine). Now,
: upon loading it for a second time, it runs real slow. Even
: the normal 3 beeps(which come one after another) are
: spaced apart.(beep. . . beep. . . beep). Evrything goes
: to the arcade monitor fine, but slow.Strange! What now
: gets me is that I have this little utility called
: Ram Booster, which upon executing, free's up ram. . great
: for running games.(this program, by the way, is not causing
: the problem) What I notice though, in this rambooster
: program, is that it has a listing called CPU USAGE. Now,
: before executing arcadeos, the CPU USAGE says 0% or
: 1 or 2, something very little. After running arcadeos
: and quitting, then running rambooster. . it says CPU
: USAGE 100%(by the way, now my computer is running really
: slow). What I gather, is something in Arcadeos/dos
: or something in arcadeos is eating up my processor.
: It will do this until I restart my computer, then
: everything is fine. . .until I start up arcadeos again.
: Whats up experts? How do I know what is eating
: my processor? My specs are:Pentium2 300mhz 96megs/ram
: Ati expert 128 16 meg. . so I am not lacking on the
: computer side. Also, other apps and games(quake, etc)
: do not cause this sloooooow "thing". Sorry if I
: sound drunk, but this is really frustrating. Please help.