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Re: The power of IconBeFast
« on: January 02, 2007, 01:33:09 PM »
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I have found PowerIcons to be faster than NewIcons on my 060. But will installing IconBeFast as well make it any quicker?


According to iconsbefast docs the performance increase is even better with 24bit icons over 256 color icons.  I have found this to be true.  With the iconsbefast patch I can open even extremely large directories in nearly real time --about the same as my 2ghz PC.  :>  It really flies if you have all of your folders snapshot the way you want them.  I run it right after binddrivers in startup-sequence:

c:minstack 12000
c:iconbefast

   
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Re: The power of IconBeFast
« Reply #1 on: January 02, 2007, 02:59:41 PM »
I read the docs again and it is kind of ambiguous...  Now I'm thinking mine is not setup correctly..  One thing is that if I comment out the two lines is SS, I notice a decrease in performance.  
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A4000T. Phase5 PPC604e-233mhz/060-66mhz. Mediator, Z3 Fastlane, Voodoo5, Delfina, X-Surf, AD516, Peggy Plus.

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A4000D, A1200, A500, Milan060 (Atari clone), Atari MegaSTE, Atari TT030, C64, C128, Mattel Aquarius, (2) HP Jornada....