Descent 1 Windows XP Home

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From: Nate
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 23:20

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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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From: "Nate" <Conservative.Nate@gmail.com>
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Subject: Descent 1 Windows XP Home
Date: 20 Feb 2006 15:20:25 -0800
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