readyboost

[t1nk]

just wondered if anyone used it and if it makes any difference to running mir

[xfaithx]

what is it? is it like readybreak for internet?

[Orphan]

I've tried it, I had a slight performance boost in Mir but nothing amazing.

[t1nk]

what is it? is it like readybreak for internet?

yes

[Gilgamesh]

I improve A LOT my Mir client performances wiping out Windows Vista Ultimate, and installing VirtualBox on my Ubuntu quadcore, then creating a Win XP Pro VM with 1GB of Ram and 10GB of virtual disk space only for Mir, installing it and doing a bit of tweaking and fine-tuning on graphics and broadband connection.

Now it rocks almost twice the speed I was used to see under Vista, and better than Windows 7 beta.

No lag, except when the server is of course, and very fast response to keyboard commands and mouse movements.

Honest, the real problem is that Windoze sucks, and Vista is one the worse M$ OS ever

[pinki2]

yh i used a 80gb ready boost stick your only supposed to use a stick the size double the ammount of ram u have but i decided to use 80gb and dont notice much diff

[Orphan]

I improve A LOT my Mir client performances wiping out Windows Vista Ultimate, and installing VirtualBox on my Ubuntu quadcore, then creating a Win XP Pro VM with 1GB of Ram and 10GB of virtual disk space only for Mir, installing it and doing a bit of tweaking and fine-tuning on graphics and broadband connection.

Now it rocks almost twice the speed I was used to see under Vista, and better than Windows 7 beta.

No lag, except when the server is of course, and very fast response to keyboard commands and mouse movements.

Honest, the real problem is that Windoze sucks, and Vista is one the worse M$ OS ever

Out of interest, how was Windows 7? Compared to Win XP (forget Vista).


Also has anyone tried running Mir on a Linux OS? I bet it would run faster than XP, hmm...

[xfaithx]

is it worth it on a basic vista operating system though?

[ezzo]

Out of interest, how was Windows 7? Compared to Win XP (forget Vista).


Also has anyone tried running Mir on a Linux OS? I bet it would run faster than XP, hmm...

haven't tried it but was thinking the other day as it's pure java based (or so i guess) wouldn't it be good try to compile it on a linux box JRE(that goes to whoever has the source code ) and give us a linux executable version of mir to try by that you run it without emulation
also wouldn't it be even more nice to try to get a linux version of the server to try it and see the performance diffrence

[Gilgamesh]

Windows 7 is far better than Vista, and a quantun leap compared with XP, even with SP3 and all tweaks and third-party optimizers, especially on a 64 bit machine. I tried the official Beta, and that's quite faster than XP on the same machine, using threaded applications, nested memory and loops. I perform some standard benchmark, and it's good on graphics, disk transfer and memory management.

By the other side, GNU/Linux on the same machine (a 3.0 Ghz quadcore with 4G RAM and NVidia GT8800 1GB, 2 x 500GB Sata HDD) is still faster, more reliable and stable, and graphic / file performances are quite better, both using Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex" and Debian 3.0 Etch.

And nope, Ezzo, only Kaori AutoPatcher is entirely written in Java, both Mir Server and Client was originally coded in C++ (all program source code files have .cpp extentions, have a look at http://mmorpg.ragezone.com/Legend%20...Source%20Code/ ) using a MSSQL database API (server source code is compatible with MySQL DB, too, but that's more difficult to set up to run on a Windows server).

Here it is a little sample of server source code:

// AdminCmd.cpp : Defines the entry point for the DLL application.
//

#include "stdafx.h"

BOOL APIENTRY DllMain( HANDLE hModule, 
                       DWORD  ul_reason_for_call, 
                       LPVOID lpReserved
					 )
{
    return TRUE;
}

As you can see, that's definitely not JAVA


To port it in a GNU/Linux enviroenment to run natively you need to rewrite from scratch BIG portions of code, and heavily adapt the rest: paradoxally, the work may be simpler for the Mir server than for the client. I never tried, even having access to source code and being a decent C/C++/C# programmer, coz it ain't worth the job: I managed to run Euro Mir Client very well with WINE 0.8 years ago, and even better with WINE 1.0... Mir Revenge Client unfortunately won't run on WINE coz of TheMida's crypto applied to the .EXE, but it runs fine using VirtualBox (slightly slower if you use XEN or VMware or Parallels on MAC OSX) so I decided to left it untouched