Hi jepoxy I am using a very similar system, athlon 1.5 + nvideo dx9 win2k. I noticed a slow down too, but turning the antivirus software and all other programs solved it. One other problem is that if you stop rendering and there is any change in the gem window inbetween renders then pd crashes.

hi list, i have a problem with GEM 0.90 on win2000. gem is loading fine on startup, no error messages in the console window. the only drawback: everything is running incredibly slowly (compared with gem0.87+cvs, on the same computer)

specs: amd athlon 1.4 GHz, Geforce2 GTS pro + fresh nvidia drivers directx 9.0b, all HW acceleration enabled pd version 0.37-1

on an other machine (p4 2.4GHz, Geforce4, win2k) everything's ok.

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