Re: Descent and DOS

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From: J. Yazel
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 02:55

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On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 19:40:07 GMT, "Doug Cook" <dcook@concentric.net>
wrote:

>Thanks for the information - I'm now in the process of tweaking.  Just for
>grins, I installed Duke3D to see how that would work and it works better
>than Descent!  The detail levels and screen resolutions are the same.  Since
>the DOS requirements are about the same for both games, I'm wondering why
>one is more fluid than the other.  Just to rule out any hardware concerns,
>can someone please tell me if the 2MB video ram I have is enough for a
>nicely running D1 and D2.  The first time I got into D1/D2, my computer I
>had a 4MB video card.  Thanks again.
>
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  Do you have all of the caches turned on in the BIOS?

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From: J. Yazel <jyazel@ai5.net>
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Subject: Re: Descent and DOS
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