🚀 go-pugleaf

Mark Janeba wrote:
>> "karx11erx" <karx11erx@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:1131106404.257471.233760@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> for all of you looking for a way to play Descent 1 and Descent 2
>>> again on modern hardware under a MS Windows OS, there is D2X-W32.
>>> D2X-W32 is a windows-specific branch of the D2X project, containing
>>> a lot of bug fixes and enhancements plus full support for playing
>>> D1 missions including original D1 weapon physics (you simply need
>>> to copy descent.pig to your D2 folder). Learn more on
>>> http://www.descent2.de or directly on
>>> http://www.descent2.de/d2x.html.
>>>
>
> This system sounds great, but...
> I downloaded last night, it runs, but at about 0.4 fps - i.e. 2.5
> seconds *per frame*!  I assume I did something wrong.
>
> I did a fresh install of D2 (windows version, not DOS - does that
> matter?) and then unzipped the d2x-xl download into the descent2
> folder.
>
> System
> Win 98SE

D2X-xl is a 32 bit program, yes? How on earth did it even START on W98? Or
am I missing something?

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Steveski