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I'm using FWTools1.0.0a2 on a computer with the following specs. <br>
Motherboard: MSI K8N NEO4/SLI<br>
CPU: <a
href="http://www.ngrcomputers.za.net/athlon-64x2-4400-socket-dual-core-64bit-with-hypert-p-2053.html">AMD
Athlon 64-X2 4400+ SOCKET 939 Dual Core 64-Bit With HyperT</a><br>
Memory: 2x1GB Kingston DDR400<br>
Graphics card: NVIDIA Geforce 6600 Turbo Edition 256 MB Memory<br>
HHD: Western Digital 120GB SATA<br>
OS: Linux SuSe 10.0 86_64 with a 4GB swapfile<br>
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The data I wish to view is in various file formats but the two primary
files is in the .ecw format. The other files are mostly vector layers
althought some of them contain a lot of data, my problem lies with the
two .ecw files. The first is 142MB and the second 850MB in size.
Opening the 142MB file noticably slows down the computer even when
invoking the "-h" command during the start-up to enable hardware
acceleration, but things are still workable. When I open the second
file, the 850MB one, things virtually comes to a standstill. The two
maps represented by the two .ecw raster layers overlap and ideally I
would like to overlay them and then ad the vector layers as needed. At
present this is impossible as everything grinds to a halt at the mere
hint of opening the two files together.<br>
My question is thus: Is there any way to improve performance by
tweaking software or enabling settings I'm unaware of at present? <br>
I did the install as suggested, eg: ./install.sh .<br>
Thanks for the help.<br>
Evert<br>
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