Specifications

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The following list summarizes the default settings:
Default grid colour table
Select the default colour table to use for
displaying grids
Print memory
(megabytes)
Select the amount of RAM you would like the
Geosoft print driver to use when printing. This
only effects print configurations that use the
Geosoft drivers. Enter 0 to use the default,
which is 33% of the total physical RAM
available on the system.
The Geosoft print driver will slice each print job
into bands of this size. The more RAM you use
for printing, the faster printing will be. If you
specify too much RAM, it is possible to
significantly diminish the performance of other
tasks on the computer. This amount should
normally not exceed 50% of the installed RAM
on your system, although we will allow the
value to be up to 75% of the available RAM.
This setting is not used by the Windows driver.
If you use the Windows print driver, the printing
process will use virtual memory up to the size
required by the print. This can be up to 600 MB
for A0 (E) size plots. We recommend that you
use the Geosoft drivers when working with large
plotters.
Image Cache
Select the amount of virtual RAM you would
like to reserve for the image cache. As images
are displayed in Oasis Montaj, an efficient
access version of the image will be stored in the
cache if there is room. The cache copy of the
image greatly improves the performance of
rendering the image when zoom/pan/redraw
operations are performed. If there is insufficient
room in the cache, the image will always be
rendered from the DAT interface, which is
slower.
We recommend that you should set the image
cache size to about 4 times the largest images
that you routinely work with. Note that the
image cache will be created in the GEOTEMP