Post System Specs/dock Performance

Many people are complaining about MD DX performance, and others (like me) think its unbeatable. People who are complaining seem to have lower system specs or ATI cards.

So could you post your hardware and how good you think dock responsiveness is compared to OD and YD. (no blurry icon complaints!)

Me:

2Ghz P4

256MB RDRAM

Geforce4MX 440 (AGP 4X)

XP SP1

1024x768, 32bit

latest drivers

Performance: Silky smooth w/ NO dropouts or hesitation. 10x faster than OD and YD.

Please have used MD DX for at least an hour before posting. Thanks.

#21756

733MHz P3. Yeah I know, its slow..

128MB Geforce4 Ti

256MB RAM

DX9 installed

Mdock runs super duper slow here. But I guess its understandable since my system's so slow..

Yzdock runs best, but mobydock has a PERFECT magnification.

#21759

1st machine:

AMD Athlon xP 1500+

512MB DDR

64MB DDR Geforce4mx 440

XP SP1

1280x1024 32 bit

detonator 43.45

2nd machine;

laptop, P4 2GHz

256MB RAM

ATI IGP 340M 64MB Shared

XP SP1

1024x768 32bit

ati omega driver

both machine running MD silky smooth, response very quickly even after idle. no prob with ati card even though there are many complaints about it. no freezing at all.

this dock is going to be the best if moby fix minor quality stuff, and have better configurations menu. yz still has the best menu among all.

#21761

AMD 2000+

512 DDRPC3800

ASUS Mobo, nforce chipset

nVidia 440 MX (current drivers) 1280x1024 @ 60 hz

XP Pro, SP1, DX9

I think Moby has done an amazing job but I still prefer the funtionality of Y's

#21764

Originally posted by digitheatre@Apr 20 2003, 04:39 PM

1st machine:

AMD Athlon xP 1500+

512MB DDR

64MB DDR Geforce4mx 440

XP SP1

1280x1024 32 bit

detonator 43.45

2nd machine;

laptop, P4 2GHz

256MB RAM

ATI IGP 340M 64MB Shared

XP SP1

1024x768 32bit

ati omega driver

both machine running MD silky smooth, response very quickly even after idle. no prob with ati card even though there are many complaints about it. no freezing at all.

this dock is going to be the best if moby fix minor quality stuff, and have better configurations menu. yz still has the best menu among all.

yea Yzdoes have the best Seperator meny and Control panel dialog...

#21765

Athlon 2200+ @333Mhz bus

512 PC3200 400mhz

Ati 7500 (AGP 4X)

XP SP1

1280x1024 32bit @100hz

Catalyst 3.2 - Gets 107 fps on the dx test dock

Omega 2.4.07a - Getting 111 fps

Mobydock runs amazingly here even on my outdated vid card With the omega drivers i get a slight increase, but not noticeable

#21768

Hey, just discovered something that might help some people.

If you have dual monitors/video cards, The dock will load into whatever video card the shortcut you clicked is on.

I had a MD DX shortcut on my monitor w/ the PCI TNT2 and when I clicked it, MD was running super slow all of a sudden, and then when I switched the shortcut to my GF4MX monitor, all is well again.

Just a tip, since I thought you had 2 monitors taha.

Actually, the dock ran decent for a PCI TNT2, but it had a lot of stuttering.

#21769

How many times do I have to write this: 12 inches, motherf***ers.

#21770

And your performance?

#21771

Motherboard: Intel VC820

Celeron 1.7Mhz, 512MB DDR

Graphic card: Matrox Millenium G400

Matrox driver package:5.88.061

Win XP without SP1

Both OD and Y'z dock work great! and Mobydock work good too although sometime it crash.

Don't be to rude, I am sure Mobydock will be good in the next version!

#21897

Originally posted by contrasutra@Apr 20 2003, 01:17 PM

And your performance?

Spotty, at best.

#21899

My system:

AMD Athlon 1333

512 MB DDR SDRAM

GF 4 MX 440 DDR

Dock runs liquid normally. When Samurize on desktop, dock stutters bad.

Whether or not Samurize is up, bouncing is stuttery when dock is active (mouseovers, auto-hide/reveal).

-=EDIT=- Okay, frig, I just decided to pay attention to my system and it seems Samurize enjoys lagging EVERYTHING when it's up. I think my config is too big. -=/EDIT=-

#21904

Pentium 4 2.53ghz

1024MB DDR 400 RAM

Radeon 9700 Pro, Catalyst 3.2 drivers

Win XP Home SP 1

Dock seems to run great, but it crashes alot. If I resize the icons, after I click the Accept button the computer crashes.

If I change the autohide dealy to anything other than 0ms, the computer crashes every time I start Mobydock and I have to reinstall it.

Other than that runs fine.

#21937

My signature has my system specs. Smooth performance, no crashes, very efficient... MDX all the way!

#21943

Current PC:

Pentium 2 450mhz (heavily tweaked)

1gb SD Ram (stop laughing back there!)

Gefrog2 GTS 64mb

Win2000 SP3

1280x1024x32bit color using the Det 43.35's.

Running flawlessly smooth here. Only installed it a few hours ago, but first impressions are its doing pretty well. No slow downs, CPU usage peaks at about 90% which is pretty good compared to other desktop enhancement progs I've used.

My main XP3000+ machine with a Gefrog4 is currently being heavily overclocked so Win2k on that is too unstable to do a decent test right now.

#25286

Dell Inspiron 8200 (Laptop)

P4 2Ghz

512MB DDR

nVidia GeForce4 440 Go 64MB DDR (Driver Version 42.58)

XP Pro, SP1

1600x1200, 32bit color

MD runs smooth but pretty slow. The old version ran much faster. nVidia does not release the drivers for it's mobile boards so I have to wait for Dell to crank out upgrades. Also, I think the card is on a mini-PCI slot, I think the new Inspiron 8500 comes with a AGP slot but not on the 8200.

I just closed MD-DX and opened the old version. It runs MUCH faster. I guess I was so caught up in the cool new features of DX that I forgot how well the old version ran. Now I'm dissapointed!

Any ideas on how I can get DX to run faster?

#25360

pc1: maxus - crashable work pc

Windows XP SP1 - OSX appearance

1,5 Ghz 1800 amd duron

512 mb ddr ram

S3 trio 32/64 2 mb (ide vidcard) - 15" Mag innovision

Geforce 3 64 mb (agp vidcard) - 19" Iyama pro 450

20 Gb 7200 rpm HD

pc2: kimmie - stable reliable server pc

Win2k server - just classic ms appearance

500 p2 celeron

512 mb sd ram

voodoo3 16 mb (i thought) - Nec multisync 2a : 640x480x60hz

2 GB HD

This all on 1 desk looking like this:

#25365

Ok well first being that I haven't made any docks I would like to say that Moby's dock is great!

That said I have noticed that at times my dock will not recenter itself but will slide off center depending on which way I mouse over it.

This is a very minor thing and I for one am not bothered if I have to occasionally exit and restart the dock.

Other than that I can't say I have ever seen anything as far as it being slow or anything else negative.

Specs.

P4 1.6a overclocked to 2.4 (and yes it is stable)

1Gig SDRAM

4 x 40gig WD special edition HD's

Dual monitors one PCI GF4 MX420 other is AGP GF4 MX440

Moby is running on 440 card

Win XP Pro SP1

TruePower 430 PSU

#25828

for me on my dual 1.53 gig amd xp machine md is very smooth and it has been my dock of choice since it came out.

I like the task bar functionality and the magnification is the closest imo out of all the docks plus it uses less resources.

there are only two issues that once resolved would make moby dock pefect for me

a.) the tops of dock icons clip when the reach their apex

b.) programs like quake3 or ventrilo (voice program) or any program that requires the dock icon to launch it with it's own working directory can't be linked.

i.e quake won't launch as the shortcuts working directory is mobydocks folder and not quake3s.

once these two bugs are fixed this will be something I couldn't picture using windows without.

Moby you truly are the man offering this peice of software for free.

#26247

Adding an update to my previous post as I just bult a new PC

Same great performance without any of the previous issues.

AMD XP-2400+

GF FX5200 (seen many posts Dogging this card but a 128MB dual head Vid card for $90.00 US I couldn't resist) and love it

1024MB PC2700 DDR

Aver Tv Studio Card

SB Audigy

4 X 80 Gig WD Special Edition Drives on striped Raid

3 X Seagate Barricuda V

:naughty:

#30128

This time tomorrow:

Asus A7N8X Deluxe

with Dolby Soundstorm 5.1

Dual LAN

(6) USB2

(1)1394IEEE

(4) 10mm Coolermaster Fans

(1) Vantec Northbridge Fan (install occurs in 3 hours)

(1) nForce2 Southbridge Red heatsink (install occurs in 3 hours)

AthlonXP 2400+ (Palamino-install occurs in 3 hours)

(Funky Chinese name) Copper Core HSF combo w/6200 RPM fan

512mb KingstonX pc2700 DDR with heatsinks!

Visiontek GeForce4 Ti 4200 128DDR (Shopping for an ATI 9600)

(2)Samsung 40Gb 7200

(1) Samsung 40Gb 7200 (earlier model)

Phillips 48/12/24 CD-RW

400w PowerMax PSU

Samsung 19" TrueFlat 955DF

Fiber Optic 4Mb connection

WindowsXP Professional

Getting a little upgrade today...can anyone say overclock?

#30170

Dont get the Radeon 9600. All the reviews I see say the 9500 is much better, but ATI is trying to lower costs, so they are replacing them. Id go and grab a 9500 quickly. Its as good as the 9700 Pro.

#30191

Originally posted by Taha@Apr 20 2003, 04:35 PM

733MHz P3. Yeah I know, its slow..

128MB Geforce4 Ti

256MB RAM

DX9 installed

Mdock runs super duper slow here. But I guess its understandable since my system's so slow..

Yzdock runs best, but mobydock has a PERFECT magnification.

Come on! Its not like "slowww"..

PIII 700

512MB RAM

64MB GF4 MMX

XP SP1

It runs very, very smoothly.. not like YZ.. but im currently using OD cuz i HATE MD autohide.. and i will always love YZ look..

#83383

Athlon XP 2500+

512 MB PC3200 DDR RAM

ATi Radeon 9600 Pro

Windows XP Service Pack 1

Runs flawlessly.

#83390

P4 1.8GHz

512 M RAM

GeForce 2 MX 200 64M

1280 x 1024

XP Pro SP1

Used to run dog slow until about two revs ago of the Windows certified nVidia drivers came out...now it runs silky smooth with each new driver revision since then.

#83411