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I doughty he has a 1 Meg. card based on the age of
his computer and the fact he has not upgraded anything else.
Actually, earlier I suggested he needs an entire
new computer, but he has rejected that. At more than 5 years old his
Pentium-1, with a slow hard drive, dial-up internet and probably less than 1 Meg
graphic card running Windows 95 is way outdated for what he wants to
do.
He should update the hard drive, graphic card,
mother board, CPU, memory, operating system, and internet connection.
Perhaps the case, fan, power supply, and modem (as a back-up) could be salvaged,
but with excellent computers in the $400.00 range, why bother?
Good luck and good trading,
Ray Raffurty
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To: <A title=realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 1:31
PM
Subject: Re: [RT] Benchmarking Hard
drive
--- In realtraders@x...,
"Ray Raffurty" <r.raffurty@x...>
wrote:> I doughty your hard drive is at fault. What is your
graphic card?I "doughty" it's your graphics card. I've run TS off 2MB
cards. If your system is redrawing your WHOLE screen every tick you need
to fix that first. This is a fixable and well known TS2K issue. I think DB
at Dynastore posted a fix several years back.Drawing a chart is
actually NOT an intense graphics applicationcompared to video or gaming or
whatever. Think about it: if you are re-drawing the latest bar a few times
a second (and maybe your indicators if they are set to update every tick),
how does that compare to an actual video? Anyway, I'm not saying
it's fer sure the HD, but fer sure your HD is slow and you are accessing
it every "tick" using your virtual memeory.BTW, did you Benchmark your
"write speed?" As lots of new data comes in, like on the open, TS "writes"
it to your HD. If your HD gets behind the delay will snowball and get
worse over time. If your entire system is using virtual memory (your's
is), that'll add to the problem. The read speed would apply to opening up
new charts.I'm no computer expert :-), but I've been my own TS trouble
shooter for 12 years. I can tell you your HD, and the condition of the
files on it, can and do effect TS performance.FWIW, if you only
have one HD in your machine you should get a second one anyway and use
your old one as a backup....BW>Is it built into the mother
board? That is far more likely to be the problem. Intense
graphic applications, like redrawing a screen every tic, require a state
of the art graphic card. Graphic chip sets built into the mother
board are cheep and suck processing power. Likewise an underpowered
graphic card will do the same.> > No offence, but if you valued
your time at $30.00 you have spent enough time trying to fix this computer
to afford a major upgrade. The road to success in trading is
littered with people who tried to get by on the cheap, cheep (or old)
computer + cheep internet connection = disaster. Frankly if you
cannot afford to upgrade your equipment and service, you can not afford to
trade. I and most people here have learned this, sometimes the hard
way. Trading is a business, if you don't have enough capital for
decent equipment, you don't have enough capital to properly fund a trading
account to withstand the inevitable draw downs. Please do yourself a
favor: Prepare a business plan, including funds for equipment,
services, office and living expenses, etc. before you begin trading.
Take the time to set your self up as a business and you will reduce the
risk of failure.> > Good luck and good trading,>
> Ray Raffurty> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Sean Cassidy > To:
realtraders@xxxx > Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 12:16
PM> Subject: [RT] Benchmarking Hard drive> >
> Sorry to take so much time with this.....but hopefully
its helping some others as well. I benchmarked my hard drive with that
program and took several readings. Most were between 4300 and 5200
kbps when the defaults were used. I cant find any info about whether
or not this is good. I have a 3 year old, 9.5 gb hard drive with about
4 gbs left. Is this as expected?> >
SMC> ----- Original Message -----
> From: tradewynne
> To: realtraders@xxxx
> Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 10:07
AM> Subject: Re: [RT] Offtopic Still slow
data> > > --- In
realtraders@xxxx, "Sean Cassidy" <scassidy@xxxx>
wrote:> > If I ran TS with no indicators
etc......I wouldnt need it. At this >
point, my PC seems fine, was just hoping someone could tell me if my
> limited bandwith could cause my data to slow
during the day. It ran > fine until 930
this morning, then immediately clogged up after the
> open. >
> Then it doesn't sound "fine" to me. Do you
have win2k+ installed on a > clean fast HD?
Have you cleaned your registry? Freebie
RegCleaner> (works fine, but use with care,
backup your registry):> > <A
href="http://www.vtoy.fi/jv16/shtml/regcleaner.shtml";>http://www.vtoy.fi/jv16/shtml/regcleaner.shtml>
> You said the same indicator works fine on
your friend's 'puter....> maybe your
computer isn't "fine."> > > <A
href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/realtraders/message/19918";>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/realtraders/message/19918>
> > Ok i think I found the problem.....I
only have 14% of resources > free, so how
do I fix?> > "Make sure you aren't
starting programs you don't need and then >
reboot.> > or>
> Clean install of Win2K.>
> How about your HD? Is it old, slow, and/or
full? A freebie called > MPower can
benchmark your HD. A slow or corrupted HD will cause your
> data to back up when your 'puter tries to
write it to the HD.> > FWIW, I have an
old AMD 900, 400 symbols/ 30 charts+, QCharts,
> Dynastore, TS4, and NO delay.>
> BW"> > >
> I just bought some great software that really
helps with > trends....but i cant use in
intraday.> >
> > SMC>
> ----- Original Message ----- >
> From: Ernie Bonugli >
> To: Sean Cassidy >
> Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 8:51
AM> > Subject: Re: [RT] Offtopic
Still slow data> >
> > >
> Sean,> >
> > I have not been keeping up
with this thread, but, if you are>
> using tradestation, have you tried running TS with only
one> > simple workspace that has
a single chart and no indicators?>
> It could be that you have overwhelmed
TS.> > > >
> >
Regards,> >
Ernie> >
ebonugli@xxxx> >
> > > >
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