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Is Windows 2000 better than Windows ME for OGR?

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ProviaFan

Lifer
Background: I sometimes use a 766 MHz Celeron system (it's used for Powerpoint, audio recording, etc., but sits idle most of the week). Anyway, the owner of the system said that I could load programs necessary to do the things I need to do on the system (I logically extend this to include OGR 😀). But, it runs Windows ME 🙁
Problem: I notice that the system is in general sort of sluggish, even w/o OGR running on it. When I check in the system monitor (one really misses the WinNT task manager when one uses a 9x-based OS), it shows 100% CPU even though OGR was not running. This worries me that it's not allowing OGR to perform to it's maximum potential.
Anyway, the system has been crashing a lot lately, so I may be able to convince the owner to load Windows 2000 on it. But I don't want to go through all the work if it's not worth it. I'm just more motivated than usual right now, seeing the threads about DPC taking the 1st place spot from us on OGR. So should I try to convince him to load Windows 2000? Is OGR more efficient on Windows 2000? TIA.
 
jliechty,

I wanted to tell you that I have noticed on Win32 that the dnet client version 463 is more efficient than the latest release 469 for OGR.

Adul,

Have you run the client on both OSs and how much difference did you see between the two? I would expect that Win2K might be a couple percentage points faster, but did you see an even larger difference?
 
I'll go to the dnet site now to check out the older client. BTW, I just got Winamp, after hearing how it uses less CPU power than WMP7; gotta efficiently use all those spare CPU cycles for OGR...we can't let the DPC get the 1st place position from us 😀
 
After checking, I found that since I'd gotten the x86/installer version, instead of the zip file (hey, I'm lazy), I already had the better version. 🙂
 
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