Optimising Windows Performance Under Warp

Symptoms

Windows sessions operate slowly.

Problem

The default WinOS/2 settings are suboptimal for many systems.

Procedure

For best performance, change the following WinOS/2 settings for all windows sessions:

• Run applications in a full screen session.
  It takes extra system processing to remap the windows display to the OS/2 desktop.

• Set WIN_DDE off
  If you don't use DDE between OS/2 and WIndows programs, turning this off will improve performance.

• Change DPMI_Memory_Limit to 16 or less.
  The default is 64 meg!
  

• Set EMS_MEMORY_LIMIT to 0
  
• Set XMS_MEMORY_LIMIT to 0
  

• Set SESSION_PRIORITY to 2 or 3
  On many systems this improves mouse responsiveness.