Slow a4000/040

[ChaosLord]

@ciVic

My theory is this:

You told the Mediator to add 128MB of your gfx card RAM as fastram and you gave this ram a waaaay too high priority.

This is the essentially the same thing as turning off your REAL fastram.

The gfx card RAM needs to have a very low priority.  Or at least it needs to be 1 less than your real fastram.  Go for 5 or 20 less so you don't have this problem again when you buy an accelerator card.

[nicholas]

@ciVic

My theory is this:

You told the Mediator to add 128MB of your gfx card RAM as fastram and you gave this ram a waaaay too high priority.

This is the essentially the same thing as turning off your REAL fastram.

The gfx card RAM needs to have a very low priority.  Or at least it needs to be 1 less than your real fastram.  Go for 5 or 20 less so you don't have this problem again when you buy an accelerator card.

+1

I agree, that sounds like the most probable cause other than something in is startup-sequence turning off the CPU caches.

[mechy]

Hi all,

I am wondering about the speed of my Amiga, it feels somehow slow. So I ran Sysinfo to see if everything works fine. As you can see in the attachments, it is very slow. But when I boot without startup-sequence speed is as expected (my 040er is overclocked). So there is a driver or anything that slows the Amiga down, or Sysinfo does not work. Does somebody know what it could be?

Are the motherboard and mediator jumpers set right?

it sounds as if it is using chip ram and not fast ram.

[ciVic]

Thx all! I have it! ShowConfig showed that sometimes I only have 3.5MB onboard fast RAM. I didn't noticed that with all the gfx mem. So I thought blizkick could be the problem or a driver since sometimes I have the full 16MB. But then I noticed a yellow screen during boot. So my fast RAM was not correctly inserted. I think that happend when I inserted the Mediator. Now my system is much faster, but 16MB is not very much and gcc needs very much. So thank you again.