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Siva,
I have used every increment of Metastock since 6.52 with Windows 98SE. I recently moved to
Win2000 with nothing short of spectacular results. I believe it is your 7.01 that is causing
problems. I would strongly recommend that you upgrade to 7.03 (I'm still not too sure about the
value of 7.2 yet...).
I experienced many of the problems that you describe, and extra hardware or HW upgrades did
nothing to fix it. 7.03 is the most stable I've seen yet. I run this in realtime on two of the
"busiest" contracts (ES and NQ) with up to 9 charts, two very calculation-intensive Experts, and
approximately 7 custom indicators.
The real trick is to limit the number of bars that your calculations are run on (maximum bars
chosen as appropriate for your indicators and studies). When you run an Exploration, if your
analysis and calculations can work with it, choose "use minimum number of bars" or select an
acceptable lower number to load. When you have Experts running and updating on tick by tick data,
judiciously select the number of bars to load in your chart.
Also, avoid the use of the PREV function at all costs. This will kill the speed of anything.
I noticed on version 7.0X up to .02 that whenever I selected the Formula Editor without a chart
open, it was a guaranteed crash. That is no more in 7.03.
Just some ideas that might help.....
Dave Nadeau
Fort Collins, CO
--- "Sivaraj.K" <siva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Machine came configured with 512MB of memory!
> Sp1 is a possibility since I know for a fact that it was not installed.
>
> Regards
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Jagow" <bjagow@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 2:39 PM
> Subject: RE: Win2K and MS Pro?
>
>
> > Could your problem be insufficient memory for win2k?
> >
> > Another possible cause could be that sp1 isn't installed.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > [mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Sivaraj.K
> > > Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2001 6:54 PM
> > > To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: Re: Win2K and MS Pro?
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I recently bought IBM Thinkpad T20 with Windows 2000 preloaded. When I
> > > reinstalled MetaStock 7.01 EOD version, everything seemed OK at first.
> But
> > > then I started to notice some strange behavior with MetaStock
> > >
> > > Explorer was about 4 time slower and it appeared as though there were
> more
> > > disk i/o and MetaStock was struggling with each counter.
> > > Intermittent problem of MetaStock "crashing" when File>Open menu was
> > > selected
> > > Also after extended use say about 2 hours, MetaStock would "crash"
> > >
> > > To confirm this, I reconfigured the ThinkPad T20 by installing
> > > Windows 98SE
> > > and ran MetaStock again.
> > > The Explorer was back to the normal speed and was able to complete
> complex
> > > searches 4 times faster
> > > No more "crash" when File>Open was selected
> > > Extended use does not cause MetaStock to "hang" or "crash"
> > >
> > > However, I did notice one problem in Windows 98SE though, once a while
> if
> > > you select "indicator builder" without a chart opened, MetaStock would
> > > "crash". This was happening on both my new ThinkPad and Desktop running
> > > Windows 98SE.
> > >
> > > At the moment, I have decided to use Windows 98 SE for various
> > > reasons over
> > > Windows 2000. I may switch back to Windows 2000 later.
> > >
> > > Hope this helps
> > >
> > > Siva
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Owen Davies" <owen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 8:39 AM
> > > Subject: Win2K and MS Pro?
> > >
> > >
> > > > It's been a while since I had time to watch the list closely, so
> > > > if this has been done to death when I wasn't paying attention,
> > > > my apologies to all. However:
> > > >
> > > > Suddenly, I need to replace a machine that died horribly
> > > > when its power supply went bad. Now that folks have more
> > > > experience with running Metastock Pro under Windows
> > > > 2000, does anyone know of any reason not to switch from
> > > > Win 98 to Win 2000? I've been running 7.02 and would
> > > > upgrade at least to 7.03. Not sure about 7.2 yet.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
> > > >
> > > > Owen Davies
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
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