Re: Descent rocks!!

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From: sw... Mike Swaim
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 1995 07:00

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Alaska (ff...@aurora.alaska.edu) wrote:
: I have found that there is an enormous range of differing performance that
: you can get out of machines which have even the same chip. I've played on
: a friends network and one of the 486 66's was so slow that I had to play
: on the smallest window with detail low and it still crawled.

  I use a 486/66 at work, and while it does just fine normally, once it 
crawled so bad that I was getting about 1 frame/second. Exiting and going 
into the game didn't help, but rebooting did. I have no Idea what caused it.

--
Mike "Agent of Chaos" Swaim | sw...@phoenix.net | disclamer: I lie.

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From: sw...@phoenix.phoenix.net (Mike Swaim)
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Subject: Re: Descent rocks!!
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