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Article #89562Re: Descent 1 Windows XP Home
From: Emil Gruenbaer
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 11:37
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 11:37
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Hi everybody, I got D1 to work with D1x, but I can not use my Sidewinder 3D Pro. It is not possible to use the axis, if I want to define it it immediately turns to R2. Any ideas how I could solve this? And yes, I prefer playing D1 as opposed to playing D1 levels on D2. Thanks! Emil Nate schrieb: > Hello, > > I am sorry if this has been asked a thousand times but I just joined > the group. > > I have just dug up and installed my OLD Descent 1 CD (MS-DOS). > > It loads fine and plays (no error messages). However it is S-L-O-W. So > So So slow. It moves at the speed of snail. Even the demo. Even the > opening screens load up and exit slow and choppy. I would think I was > running on a PC that was old and crappy in 1995. > > I have Windows XP Home edition with SP2. I am running on a Dell > Inspiron Laptop (2.0 GHz Celeron, 1 Gig RAM, 30 gig 7200 RPM Hard Drive > Intel 82845G integrated POS graphics chipset). > > The Intel Graphics chipset is called The Intel Extreme Graphics card. I > refer to it as the UNExtreme graphics card. It sucks. > > However since Descent was released about 1995 I was figuring the > UNextreme 82845G would be MORE than fine. > > In order to get the sound to work I had to install VDMSound but the > sound works great. It does not seem to be choppy at all. > > After I saw these problems I did upgrade from 1.0 to 1.4a then to 1.5. > It did not help. > > > Any ideas? >
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