Limping Jaguar

[sphereboy]

I've noticed when I have Outlook 2001 (exchange) open running on classic9 environment... Jaguar seems to choke somewhat. When I open my harddrive from the Finder... the windows chug.

If I 'hide' Outlook 2001 .. Everything runs smooth.

Could this be something with OS9 and Quartz?

I'm running Jaguar 10.2 on a Dual 1Ghz G4 with 1GB Ram.

It wasn't chugging before the upgrade.

 

[bousozoku]

Probably, it's that you've got Quartz Extreme going and then you have a QuickDraw-based application running too.

Not only does Outlook 2001 not have video acceleration because it doesn't use Quartz, but the operating system has to load the non-accelerated version of the video along with the accelerated version and it makes memory tight and has to use virtual memory on your hard drive to keep going.

 

[sphereboy]

Thanks bousozoku. It makes total sense now.

What I just realized, since i'm running dual monitors I am able to keep Outlook on the secondary monitors allowing the primary monitor to use Quartz without any interruption.

This has solved it for me until Micro$oft updates Entourage to be able to run Exchange at 100%.

 

[bousozoku]

Glad that I could help. The PCI video card by itself would have some effect even if Outlook 2001 wasn't running, but I would hope that it would be diminished.