Um…the search function isn’t working for me so I can’t tell if this was brought up in the past, and Google didn’t come up with anything good (or I was using bad search words).
But for Solitaire in Windows, particularly ME, you know when you beat it and the cards bounce around and leave trails on the screen? Mine sometimes go really fast, and other times sort of slow. What makes them bounce at different speeds? And is there any way to set the Solitaire so the cards bounce rather slowly? I like watching them bounce but if they finish in about two seconds it’s kind of annoying to me. Any thoughts?
Don’t know about Me, but the versions I’ve used seem to depend 100% on cpu speed. The faster the chip, the faster they go off (in direct proportion).
So, the question is, what is making the cpu seem to run slower. Got other apps. running? Other stuff moving around on the screen at the same time, etc.? There’s also memory leaks/usage issues, and on and on.
FWIW, I hate the animation. I’m glad I got a fast enough processor now that it’s over in a blink.
Actually, the video card on the machine plays a much larger role on the animation speed than the cpu.
On the other stuff: Office loads a helper app called “fast find”. This program indexes the files on your hard drive so that they may be found faster when you do a file search. This run periodically in the background. When this is running, things noticably slow down. You will also notice large amounts of hard drive activity when this is running.
Under Win NT or 2000, you can see the percentage of cpu cycles being used by each process running under the task manager. When fast find is doing its business, it uses most of the cpu and io capacity of the machine.
I always have several programs running, but it changes often, so that must be why it’ll vary. Thank you.