Smeggle
2nd January 2004, 20:17
I took the plunge and decided to see what the fuss was all over.
first impression is in Moder skins..This related to a breif (But careful) look at the main player posted on the home page.
The specs called for, P111 500mghz 128mb ram or greater minimum.
ok I use a P11 400mghz, 128mb ram, plus I'm using a 'Videologic Sonic Fury' sound card.
ok downloaded and thought about installing....
Did the deed at about 1am last night.
Initial view on opening the new application?
Pleasently surprised. nice clean layout etc...(It opened in the old 2 skin-Default option? yes?)
changed it to modern expecting stabability probs with my slower system. No problems and it handled the color theme change quite well but was a bit choppy if done while playing sound.
I then went through basic config. (setting soundcard from default options etc)
Here's my first nag. on closing and then reopening..I find I have to 'Tell' winamp to use my soundcard not the default settings again. i.e. I had to reset the config. in preferences. Can this be fixed? I don't want to have to set my sound card each time I use winamp.
Only other down side was milkdrop won't work.. major stabability probs straight away. suspect thats just limited systems probs.
So overall it will work in slower systems than recommended but I wouldn't really drop lower than the specs I have.
The modern skin feature is stable enough as long as settings are not messed with while playing music/visuals. i.e. set-it up and leave it alone.
Visuals? Visuals are a lot more stable and much less choppy, even on my slow system. Also I find that there rendering is much more responsive and definately worth the change over.
I gave basic specs above but heres the full system:
P11 400mghz (66meg bus[?I think])
128mb RAM
XPpro OS
I'll see how it goes over the weekend/next week and give more details etc then..but upto now it's getting a definate thumbs up from me :)
first impression is in Moder skins..This related to a breif (But careful) look at the main player posted on the home page.
The specs called for, P111 500mghz 128mb ram or greater minimum.
ok I use a P11 400mghz, 128mb ram, plus I'm using a 'Videologic Sonic Fury' sound card.
ok downloaded and thought about installing....
Did the deed at about 1am last night.
Initial view on opening the new application?
Pleasently surprised. nice clean layout etc...(It opened in the old 2 skin-Default option? yes?)
changed it to modern expecting stabability probs with my slower system. No problems and it handled the color theme change quite well but was a bit choppy if done while playing sound.
I then went through basic config. (setting soundcard from default options etc)
Here's my first nag. on closing and then reopening..I find I have to 'Tell' winamp to use my soundcard not the default settings again. i.e. I had to reset the config. in preferences. Can this be fixed? I don't want to have to set my sound card each time I use winamp.
Only other down side was milkdrop won't work.. major stabability probs straight away. suspect thats just limited systems probs.
So overall it will work in slower systems than recommended but I wouldn't really drop lower than the specs I have.
The modern skin feature is stable enough as long as settings are not messed with while playing music/visuals. i.e. set-it up and leave it alone.
Visuals? Visuals are a lot more stable and much less choppy, even on my slow system. Also I find that there rendering is much more responsive and definately worth the change over.
I gave basic specs above but heres the full system:
P11 400mghz (66meg bus[?I think])
128mb RAM
XPpro OS
I'll see how it goes over the weekend/next week and give more details etc then..but upto now it's getting a definate thumbs up from me :)