Real-time performancce of STRATON

Real-time performancce of STRATON

While using STRATON runtime over Windows PC, STRATON runtime manager offers 2 settings : 'Windows realtime priority' & 'Hard realtime'
What is diffrence between these two. Does 'hard realtime' work independant of windows?
For example to execute 1000 steps of logic on best of processor available today ( like Pentium Duel core), what diffrence above settings will make in terms of 'Scan time' & 'consistancy / repeatability of scan time'
While using STRATON within zenOn project, how to set 'hard-realtime'

This is a migrated post! Originally posted on 20.10.2007 by user prasadkh. Please be aware that information can be outdated.