Screensaver takes too much time to fade-out the previous pix, but...

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 12/12/2011 10:07 PM, Linda McLeod wrote:
> In F-14.. when "screensaver slideshow" runs, the previous pix takes
> quite a while to fully fade-out, and is completely gone only a few
> seconds before the pix changes again.. but on an old tower, with only
> 250-megs of RAM, the fade is nearly instant..?  Which maybe means that
> "less RAM allocated to screensaver's slideshow, eliminates the
> irritating lengthy fade"..?
> So is there a way, in a high RAM machine, to restrict RAM to
> screensaver's slideshow while it's pix-changing, so to eliminate the
> irritating lengthy fade time-periods..?

It could be a difference in video card.  It could be a difference in 
resolution.  There are a number of different factors that can contribute 
to the different performance.

>
> Please tell, what is being done to eliminate screensaver's slideshow
> fade time-period..?

I never use resources on screensavers beyond a blank screen.

>
> Is there a way to regulate the time-period a screensaver slideshow pix
> remains on the screen..?  I would like a lot more user-conrol over
> screensaver's slideshow...  Is there a way to do it with "libs" and
> such..? Or isn't it written yet..?
>