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Article #223Re: Descent hangs on 486sx Cyrix
From: pbre... Patrick M Brennan
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 1995 19:35
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 1995 19:35
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Lee Goodman (lgoo...@iacnet.com) wrote: : I can run Descent on a 486dx with no problems , but when I run it from : home on a 486sx Cyrix it hangs after the game starts and I try to move the : ship. Turning off sound and joystick doesn't help : Is there a bug with the Cyrix chip set ( I thought I saw a thread about that) My machine is a Cyrix 486SX-25. Descent runs perfectly well on my machine. I wish I could give you more information, but you can rule out a basic incompatibility (unlike Heretic).
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Newsgroups: alt.games.descent Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!nntp.gmd.de!Germany.EU.net!EU.net!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!sgiblab!uhog.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!world!pbrennan From: pbre...@world.std.com (Patrick M Brennan) Subject: Re: Descent hangs on 486sx Cyrix Message-ID: <D1y6F7.BC5@world.std.com> Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <D1y5t0.J0K@zcias2.ziff.com> Date: Thu, 5 Jan 1995 19:35:31 GMT Lines: 11 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit