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Re: IDL video memory vs. MS Windows Terminal Services [message #34467 is a reply to message #34374]

Wed, 12 March 2003 13:38

Rick Towler
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Registered: August 1998

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"Liam Gumley" wrote ...
> "Dick Jackson" wrote in message
>> A client of mine had had trouble allocating as much pixmap memory as his
>> video card should have allowed. I just got word that the problem was
>> solved as follows:
>>
>> =====
>> Apparently Terminal Services uses video memory in such a way that limits
>> the amount of video memory that's available to IDL. As soon as I
>> uninstalled Terminal Services, then I could create 6 pixmaps in IDL that
>> were 20MB each.
>> =====
>
> Dick,
>
> Can you give us any more details about the version of Windows, and the
> method used to disable terminal services? I've also had problems creating
> large pixmaps...

The terminal services server is not installed on Win2k Pro and XP. The
client can be but I don't think that would interfere with IDL. Terminal
services are installed by default (?) on Win2k Server and Advanced Server.
I don't know about NT4. They can be removed by using the install cd.

-Rick

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		Re: IDL video memory vs. MS Windows Terminal Services By: Dick Jackson on Wed, 12 March 2003 13:30
		Re: IDL video memory vs. MS Windows Terminal Services By: Liam E. Gumley on Wed, 12 March 2003 08:34
		Re: IDL video memory vs. MS Windows Terminal Services By: Rick Towler on Wed, 12 March 2003 13:38
		Re: IDL video memory vs. MS Windows Terminal Services By: Dick Jackson on Thu, 13 March 2003 07:35

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