junglemike
12-19-2004, 12:17 AM
Hi every1, just wanted to share with you something. Although i'm using no T3 which has tons of memory - my former Zire71 is still used by my father and run in low memory problems all the time. I remember myself having similair problems. Even if you try to move to card everything you can - it is still not enough, since there are many programs which don't work while on the card, like Launcher, Ptunes/Aeroplayer, Documents To Go and many others. And even though, if you launch most apps from the card - this is not good solution either, for examaple if you try to launch some big complicated game, like Warfare - you need to wait untill all fiels are copied, and then wait again till they are moved back to card.
This is because All programs that launch programs from card, like Zlauncher/ PowerRun - they don't really launch programs directly from card - they first copy all files to the main memory (dram) and rest you know.
There is possible solution to this:
there is a free programs, though it is beta, but still working good - called MSmount5
download it here:
http://www.geocities.jp/tatsuonagamatsu/MSMount5/MSMount5.zip
homepage here:
http://www.geocities.jp/tatsuonagamatsu/MSMount5/index-e.htm
Well this programs - REALLY enables you to launch programs from the card. - YOu can move most your large databases to special folder
/Palm/Programs/MSMount (could be changed) and palm thinks as if fles are really into memory. This works very fast, For example - i moved the large database file from Warfare (2mb) to this folder and game is being launch exactly as fast as directly from ram.
But be aware, this not always work from databases that tend to change.
Here is concrete example you can try.
Download this cool freeware logic game:
http://vexed.sourceforge.net/images/main.gif
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/vexed/vexed21Beta1.zip?download
It has many additional levels (more than 600) as separate files. Now install MSmount,and move all those additional files except of the main .prc file to the msmount directory - and then launch the game. - You will see that game can find it's levels as if they were located in main memory.
Enjoy:
:)
This is because All programs that launch programs from card, like Zlauncher/ PowerRun - they don't really launch programs directly from card - they first copy all files to the main memory (dram) and rest you know.
There is possible solution to this:
there is a free programs, though it is beta, but still working good - called MSmount5
download it here:
http://www.geocities.jp/tatsuonagamatsu/MSMount5/MSMount5.zip
homepage here:
http://www.geocities.jp/tatsuonagamatsu/MSMount5/index-e.htm
Well this programs - REALLY enables you to launch programs from the card. - YOu can move most your large databases to special folder
/Palm/Programs/MSMount (could be changed) and palm thinks as if fles are really into memory. This works very fast, For example - i moved the large database file from Warfare (2mb) to this folder and game is being launch exactly as fast as directly from ram.
But be aware, this not always work from databases that tend to change.
Here is concrete example you can try.
Download this cool freeware logic game:
http://vexed.sourceforge.net/images/main.gif
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/vexed/vexed21Beta1.zip?download
It has many additional levels (more than 600) as separate files. Now install MSmount,and move all those additional files except of the main .prc file to the msmount directory - and then launch the game. - You will see that game can find it's levels as if they were located in main memory.
Enjoy:
:)