Icons taking forever to load in Windows running Amiga OS 3.5

[giZmo350]

You're going to have to do one of these two procedures first to get your icons loaded to fastmem.

1. When using PK’s icon library, you need to use LoadModule or use the “IconsToFastRAM” tool from PeterK's IconLib archive to load icons into fastmem. Because OS3.5 has no ability to set icons to use fastmem in WB Prefs (OS3.9 does). You might be able to avoid using LoadModule all together by using WBCtrl described below. See 2.

LoadModule actually comes with the IconLib_46.4 in the ThirdParty drawer

To install LoadModule, simply copy it to your C directory on your boot partition

At the top of your Startup-Sequence you want to put something like

LoadModule icon.library REVERSE NOREBOOT

Do the above and you’re done.

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2. I've never tried this but WBCtrl may be a simple alternative to using LoadModule (as described above) to use icons in fastmem.

WB 3.5 Workbench prefs editor does not allow setting icons to fastmem. However, as an alternative, you can download and use WBCtrl  http://aminet.net/package/util/sys/WBCtrl 

Copy the WBCtrl binary to C: and then edit your S:startup-sequence
add the C:LoadWB command at the very end as follows:

C:WBCtrl IMT=ICONFAST
C:LoadWB

The IMT=ICONFAST parameter enables processing icons in Fast RAM.

An alternative to WBCtrl is WBAllocFast that claims to redirect more allocation calls than the former to fast RAM.   

http://aminet.net/package/util/boot/WBAllocFast

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To additionally use FBlit........

Copy:

    FBlit and FBlitGUI to C:
    Fblit.library to LIBS:
    FBlit.cfg to ENVARC

Add C:FBlit and C:LoadWB SIMPLEGELS in your S:Startup-Sequence

If you get icon artifacts after installing FBlit, in the QBSBlitPatch section, set the synchronization option to INLINE.


@Brad  EXACTLY what accelerator do you have?