Windows 98 slow .Net performance

[Guest]

Hi

I developed an app that seems to be running fine on Windows XP.

My client how-ever, needs to run this app on Win98.. after installing Mdac
and IE and .Net Framework 1.1, it installs on the 98 machine

The problem however is that it is horribly slow on windows 98. My client
complains that it takes up too 2 minutes for certain areas of the program to
load....

Any ideas?

Regards

Louis

 

[Morten Wennevik]

Hi Louis,

I suspect he as very little memory on his machine causing heavy paging when running your application. Win98 machines often have just 64mb ram which is barely enough to run the OS itself as well as a few services. Adding a .Net application ontop of that will probably use more RAM than is available.

 

[Peter van der Goes]

Hi

I developed an app that seems to be running fine on Windows XP.

My client how-ever, needs to run this app on Win98.. after installing Mdac
and IE and .Net Framework 1.1, it installs on the 98 machine

The problem however is that it is horribly slow on windows 98. My client
complains that it takes up too 2 minutes for certain areas of the program
to
load....

Any ideas?

Regards

Louis

I'll bet Morten is correct, and this is an issue you probably should have
addressed with your client at the beginning. .NET is a modern technology
that "will work" on outdated hardware and operating systems, but working
well is another matter entirely. You'll probably need to tell your client
that, at minimum, a memory upgrade is needed (think 512 meg) for efficient
operation. Depending on the hardware, the antiquity of the CPU, hard drive,
etc. may also need to be addressed.