.NET SDK H/W requirements
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I'd be interested to hear from those who have been using the .NET SDK and Visual Studio.NET. I'm running beta 1 on a Celeron 300 @ 375 w/ 128Mb. It's, well, a little slow. From what I remember, the PDC bits ran quite well on my machine, but it seems the latest release is slower. BUT - this could be because I just spent a week running the beta on a dual 800 w/ 1Gb of RAM which may have made it seem to be running a bit faster than I was used to. So I'd be interested to hear from those who are running the beta on mid-level machines with modest specs. I'm trying to work out the combination of CPU/RAM that yeilds acceptable performance. Obviously once the optimisations are done on the final release it'll work fine on a Pentium 90 with 16Mb, but until then... ;P cheers, Chris Maunder
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I'd be interested to hear from those who have been using the .NET SDK and Visual Studio.NET. I'm running beta 1 on a Celeron 300 @ 375 w/ 128Mb. It's, well, a little slow. From what I remember, the PDC bits ran quite well on my machine, but it seems the latest release is slower. BUT - this could be because I just spent a week running the beta on a dual 800 w/ 1Gb of RAM which may have made it seem to be running a bit faster than I was used to. So I'd be interested to hear from those who are running the beta on mid-level machines with modest specs. I'm trying to work out the combination of CPU/RAM that yeilds acceptable performance. Obviously once the optimisations are done on the final release it'll work fine on a Pentium 90 with 16Mb, but until then... ;P cheers, Chris Maunder
Chris I have a Gateway 450P-II with 128mb, and it runs like a pig on my box. Last night I finished building my 900mhz + 128Mb Ram, its blisteringly fast, but crashes randomly (memory compatibility problem - I need to fix). I would definitely recommend this spec. Even though this is the beta, I really can't see how they can dramatically improve the speed that much. Norm
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I'd be interested to hear from those who have been using the .NET SDK and Visual Studio.NET. I'm running beta 1 on a Celeron 300 @ 375 w/ 128Mb. It's, well, a little slow. From what I remember, the PDC bits ran quite well on my machine, but it seems the latest release is slower. BUT - this could be because I just spent a week running the beta on a dual 800 w/ 1Gb of RAM which may have made it seem to be running a bit faster than I was used to. So I'd be interested to hear from those who are running the beta on mid-level machines with modest specs. I'm trying to work out the combination of CPU/RAM that yeilds acceptable performance. Obviously once the optimisations are done on the final release it'll work fine on a Pentium 90 with 16Mb, but until then... ;P cheers, Chris Maunder
G'day Chris, I've been running VS.NET on a 600MHz Celeron with 256MB RAM and it's fairly tardy, but I could live with it if I *really* had to. Window updates/repaints do seem pretty slow and I think as I get to know my way around the IDE a bit better, the performance could become a problem. Loading the help browser takes an eternity. The fact that it chews up about 75MB of RAM might have something to do with that. I've only had VS.NET running for a couple of days and haven't tried compiling anything more taxing than some really simple C# test apps. I'm going to compile one of our apps (approx 10MB of binaries) this weekend and see how the compiler & IDE performs with a large project. I'm due for a new computer soon, so I think I'll be shopping for a dual 1GHz CPU class machine with gobs of RAM. Good excuse huh? :-) Steve -------------------------------------- Steve Driessens
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I'd be interested to hear from those who have been using the .NET SDK and Visual Studio.NET. I'm running beta 1 on a Celeron 300 @ 375 w/ 128Mb. It's, well, a little slow. From what I remember, the PDC bits ran quite well on my machine, but it seems the latest release is slower. BUT - this could be because I just spent a week running the beta on a dual 800 w/ 1Gb of RAM which may have made it seem to be running a bit faster than I was used to. So I'd be interested to hear from those who are running the beta on mid-level machines with modest specs. I'm trying to work out the combination of CPU/RAM that yeilds acceptable performance. Obviously once the optimisations are done on the final release it'll work fine on a Pentium 90 with 16Mb, but until then... ;P cheers, Chris Maunder
I've installed it on a PII 400 with 64 Mb and I could hardly use it. Installed it on my main machine - PIII 650 with 256 Mb and it was just about usable, but some things were pathetically slow, like searching Help - that took over 2 mins to search for something. The new interface also seems rather slow. Berkut
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I'd be interested to hear from those who have been using the .NET SDK and Visual Studio.NET. I'm running beta 1 on a Celeron 300 @ 375 w/ 128Mb. It's, well, a little slow. From what I remember, the PDC bits ran quite well on my machine, but it seems the latest release is slower. BUT - this could be because I just spent a week running the beta on a dual 800 w/ 1Gb of RAM which may have made it seem to be running a bit faster than I was used to. So I'd be interested to hear from those who are running the beta on mid-level machines with modest specs. I'm trying to work out the combination of CPU/RAM that yeilds acceptable performance. Obviously once the optimisations are done on the final release it'll work fine on a Pentium 90 with 16Mb, but until then... ;P cheers, Chris Maunder
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I'd be interested to hear from those who have been using the .NET SDK and Visual Studio.NET. I'm running beta 1 on a Celeron 300 @ 375 w/ 128Mb. It's, well, a little slow. From what I remember, the PDC bits ran quite well on my machine, but it seems the latest release is slower. BUT - this could be because I just spent a week running the beta on a dual 800 w/ 1Gb of RAM which may have made it seem to be running a bit faster than I was used to. So I'd be interested to hear from those who are running the beta on mid-level machines with modest specs. I'm trying to work out the combination of CPU/RAM that yeilds acceptable performance. Obviously once the optimisations are done on the final release it'll work fine on a Pentium 90 with 16Mb, but until then... ;P cheers, Chris Maunder
I'm having PIII, 833 MHz, 40 GB IDE, 512 MB RAM. For safety reasons, I'm running the whole stuff inside a vmware virtual machine (200 MB virtual RAM), and well its not THAT fast, but you can work or at least test some things. Uwe Keim See me: http://www.zeta-software.de/~uwe
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G'day Chris, I've been running VS.NET on a 600MHz Celeron with 256MB RAM and it's fairly tardy, but I could live with it if I *really* had to. Window updates/repaints do seem pretty slow and I think as I get to know my way around the IDE a bit better, the performance could become a problem. Loading the help browser takes an eternity. The fact that it chews up about 75MB of RAM might have something to do with that. I've only had VS.NET running for a couple of days and haven't tried compiling anything more taxing than some really simple C# test apps. I'm going to compile one of our apps (approx 10MB of binaries) this weekend and see how the compiler & IDE performs with a large project. I'm due for a new computer soon, so I think I'll be shopping for a dual 1GHz CPU class machine with gobs of RAM. Good excuse huh? :-) Steve -------------------------------------- Steve Driessens
Dual 1GHz?? Oh man... I think (hope) you will be pleasantly surprised when you recompile. I compiled my grid to see what it would say, and the code used to compile on warning level 4 without a hitch, but suddenly upo come all these warnings and errors (!) that weren't there before. Excellent error messages too. I'm finding VS.NET runs fine until I load up help - then it starts to use over the 250Mb of memory. cheers, Chris Maunder
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I'd be interested to hear from those who have been using the .NET SDK and Visual Studio.NET. I'm running beta 1 on a Celeron 300 @ 375 w/ 128Mb. It's, well, a little slow. From what I remember, the PDC bits ran quite well on my machine, but it seems the latest release is slower. BUT - this could be because I just spent a week running the beta on a dual 800 w/ 1Gb of RAM which may have made it seem to be running a bit faster than I was used to. So I'd be interested to hear from those who are running the beta on mid-level machines with modest specs. I'm trying to work out the combination of CPU/RAM that yeilds acceptable performance. Obviously once the optimisations are done on the final release it'll work fine on a Pentium 90 with 16Mb, but until then... ;P cheers, Chris Maunder
Chris, I think that the .Net is a pig on RAM, do you remember when Windows 95 first came out? We all had to get much more RAM to get it working at half decent speeds. This is another one of these steps that we have to take to keep up with MS and the programming edge. So yes you will have to get faster CPU, but what you need more is that RAM ... make sure you have plenty of it. Pz
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I'd be interested to hear from those who have been using the .NET SDK and Visual Studio.NET. I'm running beta 1 on a Celeron 300 @ 375 w/ 128Mb. It's, well, a little slow. From what I remember, the PDC bits ran quite well on my machine, but it seems the latest release is slower. BUT - this could be because I just spent a week running the beta on a dual 800 w/ 1Gb of RAM which may have made it seem to be running a bit faster than I was used to. So I'd be interested to hear from those who are running the beta on mid-level machines with modest specs. I'm trying to work out the combination of CPU/RAM that yeilds acceptable performance. Obviously once the optimisations are done on the final release it'll work fine on a Pentium 90 with 16Mb, but until then... ;P cheers, Chris Maunder
Memory is the key. The IDE is a pig and takes up about 100M all by itself. Pop in another 128K and you'll be fine.
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Memory is the key. The IDE is a pig and takes up about 100M all by itself. Pop in another 128K and you'll be fine.
Yep - I think it's the memory that's the issue and not so much the CPU. Just cracked the case of my laptop and noticed that both memory slots are full. D'Oh! cheers, Chris Maunder
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I've installed it on a PII 400 with 64 Mb and I could hardly use it. Installed it on my main machine - PIII 650 with 256 Mb and it was just about usable, but some things were pathetically slow, like searching Help - that took over 2 mins to search for something. The new interface also seems rather slow. Berkut
Typical Microsoft bloatware... and they say that the PC market is drying up because people don't thing they need a 750 MHz PIII to read their e-mail... There'll always be software developers :)