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A couple notes...
TradeStation 4 releases control to Windows every time it gets a slice
of time - this was put in (by me) to allow for a bug in Windows 3.1
COM port dropping ticks if it was not allowed enough time. So, TS4
will always peg the CPU at 100%. Sorry, they left my line of code in
for all versions through TS4, at least... (might only apply to Signal
Server, maybe to ComStock as well, not certain)
Open the "Help", "About" dialog and leave it open, this will negate
the CPU drain.
You can enable the dongle under Win XP by following the first few
instructions under "Omega", "Prog", "Drivers", "NT" - see the ReadMe.NT file.
At 11:02 AM 10/12/06, you wrote:
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 06:40:36 -0400
From: Ron Augustine <RonAug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: OT: Switching From TS4 to 2000i
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Interfacing TS-4 with the IB feed would be a great idea, but I've
not seen any interface for that -- If you find one, please post it
-- It would be a very worthwhile combo --
I've done quite a bit with TS-4 using the Quote.com feed a while
back via Dynastore, but it was problematic and Dynastore has since
gone down the tubes,--but I think at least one trader here that I
know of is still using that combo and likes it --
There are a few problems you'll encounter in running TS-4 under Win-XP --
TS-4 is an old 16 bit App and won't run directly under XP -- XP
automatically invokes a legacy emulator called NTVDM, under which it
will run TS-4 --
NTVDM will saturate your CPU and hog as many machine cycles as it
can get its hands on, so you'll need a work-around --
Either a dual-CPU PC or a PC with a hyper-threaded Intel CPU will work --
You'll need to assign the CPU affinity for NTVDM to one CPU ( or the
hyper-threaded half of a single CPU ) to leave the other CPU free
for normal tasks --
You'll also need to get around the Dongle dilemma -- Best solution
is safe-soft, the renegade Dongle work-around that has been floating
around for a few years --
Once you're up and running, you'll be up against the old problem of
TS-4 still saturating the CPU and you'll need to go to the TS-Server
"Tools > Holiday Setup" and leave the Holiday Setup window open
while TS-4 is running to bring your CPU saturation back to normal --
A lot of mickey-mousing around, but those are the facts --
As always, others in this forum will disagree, but that's my
experience based on many years of working with TS-4 --
Another combo that may be worth looking at is Sierra Charts and IB
-- nowhere near as elegant as TS, but very workable --
Good Luck!
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