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From: sgs@netcom.com (Stanley G. Sawyer)
Subject: Re: Myst slows after a while (help!)
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Date: Mon, 28 Mar 1994 18:18:51 GMT
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>I had a huge Win swap file (about 19 Meg) before I called Broderbund tech
>support.  They were certain that dropping my swap file size to about 10 Meg
>would fix this problem.  (Something about a known Microsoft bug, etc...).
>
>Well, this fix didn't help my problem much at all.  Instead of waiting on hold
>for tech support again, I thought I'd see if anyone here has conquered similar
>problems.
>
>BTW, I'm running Myst on a 486-66 w/ 2x Mitsumi CD, 8 Meg RAM, SB16

I'm running on a 33Mhz with 20Mb (physical) RAM and 2Mb swap file.  I've never
had problems with MYST.  (It *even* installed without a hitch om my PC.:)

The docs say that you only need 10Mb total RAM (combining physical and swap
memory).  I wonder if you would get better performance if you made the swap
file even smaller...maybe even 2Mb (so your total memory would be 10Mb).

Good luck.

  stan