chickenbone wrote:What are the drawbacks of having huge screensaver files? I've created large .SCR files with your tools and I do not see a problem with performance although I have a relatively fast machine. I want to sell my screensaver with 80 1024x768 images, but it's 71MBs. Is this going to be a big problem for users? I hate to cut down the quality of the images or the number of them
Thanks.
Hi,
We created a 300MB screen saver that is a good seller. Any system with less than 256 megs of real memory tends to run rahte rslowly with the screen active (but speeds right up when the screen saver is banished). So the impacts are:
1) Lower memory computers have a problem. Set your minimum memory requirements to the size of the screen saver or users might report problems. If you have a big screen saver, I would recommend that you set the minum needed system to a system with 256MB of memory and running Windows 2000 or later.
2) downloads of the screen saver is a real problem. anything large is hard for dial up users to download.
3) Uploads to shareware sites will often time out. simtel.net is especailly problematic when the screensaver size reaches over about 30MB in size. Also, transfering the screensaver via frontpage to a web host is painfully slow.
other than the above issues, we are selling 3 screen savers in the 25-50mb range and several larger screen savers as well.