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In addition to the vastly increased speed with NT4, you get away from the
daily crashes that TS2Ki seems to cause by running out of resources. Since
I went to NT4, I've actually gone 4 days in a row on one occasion without
rebooting or crashing. With WIN98, if I had more than 10 workspaces open
(each with three charts, a weekly, daily, and 10 minute chart for one
symbol), and with a total of 6 indicators in each workspace, I would be
virtually guaranteed or crashing within about 3 hours of opening the last
of these workstations. Now, I've had 15 such workspaces open for up to 4
days with no problem. I think OR should tell its customers up front that
WINNT is a practical minimum OS for TS2Ki.
-uf
At 03:36 PM 6/11/99 -0700, Allan Havemose wrote:
>I did a speed comparisons of WinNT 4 and Win98 by compiling a large
>project (I know this isn't TS, but this is the only data I have). It
>was done on the same computer using a dual boot setup:
>
>Win98: 12 minutes
>WinNT: 2min and 30 secs
>
>Huge difference. I suspect it's related to NT's much better (buffering)
>filesystem, which definitely could effect TS with data collection
>running in the background.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Allan
>
>--- Loren Davis <lorjay@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I was interested in finding out if any day trader has been able to
> > use
> > 2000i without a very sluggish response going between workspaces (from
> > workspace tab to workspace tab) and without losing ticks.
> >
> > I run Windows 98 on a 400 MHz, 256 k computer with a maximum of 1500
> > collected symbols using BMI cable. I have also increased my files and
> > buffers (to 99 and 50 respectively) and have basically an anti-virsus
> > program running in the background.
> >
> > I run about 5-6 workspaces open with 4-8 charts (or quote windows) in
> > each workspace and between 4-10 indicators in each workspace. This
> > configuration runs very well in 4.0 but not in 2000i (for me).
> >
> > I spoke to Tradestation and they suggested using Windows NT (which
> > for
> > me means a new computer since the vendor I purchased mine from does
> > not
> > support NT on the model I purchased), but could not assure me that
> > the
> > sluggishness of response would be corrected even if I used NT.
> >
> > I am not inviting criticism of Omega (there is enough of that on this
> > site, deservedly or not). What I am interested in is whether 2000i is
> > a
> > usable product for intraday trading, especially on very short time
> > periods trading futures (although I also do monitor equities
> > throughout
> > the day). Has anyone been able to configure 2000i on Windows 98 and
> > get
> > it to respond like 4.0? Has anyone been able to configure it on
> > Windows
> > NT and have it respond with at least the speed of 4.0?
> >
> > I believe some of the people at Omega are aware of the speed problem.
> > Unfortunately service pack 3 is not due to be released until the 3rd
> > or
> > 4th quarter and there is no assurance that the speed issue is going
> > to
> > be addressed and corrected. I am very frustrated and am hoping that
> > someone my have a solution to making 2000i work (with at least the
> > same
> > efficiency of 4.0...which I have gone back to), if that is at all
> > possible.
> >
> > Any constructive feedback would be appreciated. Hopefully returning
> > 2000i and looking for a new 32 bit intraday software trading program
> > in
> > not my only alternative.
> >
> > Thank you in advance for your feedback.
> >
> > Loren
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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