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Article #150Re: Descent rocks!!
From: jere... Jeremy Schertzinger
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 1995 05:16
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 1995 05:16
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In article <JASON.95J...@phydeaux.cygnus.com>,
Jason Merrill <ja...@cygnus.com> wrote:
>I have a DX/33 with an ISA Diamond Speedstar, and I get a good framerate
>(~17fps, I would guess) with detail set to lowest and the window reduced to
>the smallest size where your missile indicators on the HUD are still
>hollow.
>
>KEY: Do not use an EMM or disk cache. As with WC3, these things slow
>Descent down a lot.
I use a 256k disk cache and it helps. Don't use any more than that,
though, or it cuts into your memory too much.
--
Jeremy Schertzinger jere...@eskimo.com -- jer...@scn.org
http://www.eskimo.com/~jeremyps/ Happy New Year!
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