>> There's always advantages and disadvantages to upgrading to a new version of
>>any door game.  One just has to evaluate them all and then make a decision as
>> to what to do.  Donald.
> I have 4.07 which runs slow and 3.55 patched which runs blisteringly fast!

Be sure that you understand the situation with DOS programs.  Pretty much
all of them are (or were) written for systems that primarily ran MS-DOS,
where it was a "given" that the one program had total access/use
of the CPU. But any program like LORD v3.55 that runs on a multi-tasking
system that runs MS Windows XP, for example, will hog the cpu.  As Michael
Preslar has stated in messages this week to Sean Dennis, all of Seth's
versions of LORD use 100% of the CPU.  So that's why it runs fast.  But if
you tried to do anything else, such as use an Windows-based email program,
it would be very slow to respond to anything you do.

Starting with LORD v4.06, Michael optimized LORD to behave itself and NOT
monopolize the user's CPU.  That was further refined in LORD v4.07, which
was released on my Birthday on June 07th.  

The question you have to ask yourself is this:  Do you want to use ONE
single program (LORD) and have it run fast?  If so, then you already have a
situation you like to use.  If not, you are like the majority of us. We
expect and need our computer to do lots of stuff simultaneously.  Use web
browser, use email program, run Microsoft Word for Windows, and so on.
Perhaps you have Solitaire running.  But any DOS program you run, such as
LORD, unless it is v4.06, v4.07, or v4.08 beta, will slow everything down
to a crawl because of its attempt to monopolize the CPU.  

If you still have questions on this subject, ask Michael Preslar to discuss
it further either here in Fidonet Lord echo, in Fidonet netmail, or via his
email (mike at lordlegacy.com).  

Personally, I *HATED* to work on LORD programming projects for the first
two-three years in either Windows ME or Windows XP because everything I did
was slowed down by LORD hogging the cpu.  I'm used to having three DOS
windows open at once, the email program running sometimes, the web browser
(Firefox usually), Borland Pascal for Windows, Solitaire - and if LORD is
running, unless its 4.07/4.08 beta, things get glacially slow.

Its very hard to run LORD (which one has to do to test changes in your igms
as you work on them), BPW, and other stuff, and get much accomplished if
you do that sort of situation using LORD v3.55 or any other version of LORD
through 4.05pb.  I know that is a fact from personal experience.

One just has to decide whether you are going to single-task on a computer
or multi-task.  If you want to multi-task, its best if ALL of the programs
you are running will behave themself and not hog the CPU.  Some early
versions of Mozilla Firefox have that problem, and that also can drive one
nuts at times.  Not sure if Firefox v1.5.0.7 still does the cpu hogging.

Anyway, that's the situation with LORD being blistering fast in v3.55, and
very slow with v4.07.  You just have to decide which situation you want -
single-tasking or multi-tasking.  The rest is up to you. Donald

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