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I heard you could get better play by upping your clock speed on your computer. 
 I think the guy who said this was bullshitting.  He said all you have to do 
is switch a jumper setting on the motherboard.

In article <3elrmf$o...@prime.mdata.fi> sal...@mits.mdata.fi (Samuli Salmela) writes:
>From: sal...@mits.mdata.fi (Samuli Salmela)
>Subject: Make your system run SMOOTH!
>Date: 7 Jan 1995 10:50:55 GMT

>        If it's not a question of money, then sell your system and buy a new
>one: Gamer's Choice is here:

>        Pentium 90 MHz
>        S3 864 PCI Video adaptor
>        8 Megs of RAM
>        Gravis Ultrasound (MAX) Sound board
>        
>With those: You can't find a game not running smoothly nowadays.. (Well, I
>haven't seen ORIGIN's games with that system, but.. ;)
> 
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I would've thought so myself... I got one for xmas, and find that NASCAR is 
choppy when all graphic details are turned on in SVGA mode. It's playable, but 
not ideal. This machine gets 71.4 on 3dbench. It's not an indictment of 
NASCAR, which I play more than any other game on the system, but 
I'm disappointed in not seeing a magnitude of improvement over my old DX2-66 
(playing NASCAR). Doom on the new system, OTOH, is now so smooth, there is no 
frame rate that would be meaningful, even if measurable. Just be careful of 
sweeping generalities...

Mike.

Samuli Salmela (sal...@mits.mdata.fi) wrote:

> It will sure run faster with +4 megs, but i'd prefer more efficient
> processor. For about $10 you can find a new oscillator running at 33 MHz,
> iNTEL's 486sx/25 is easily ran at 33 MHz. On your main board may be
> DIP-switches or jumpers choosing the clock-rate of your computer (MHz) - If
> so, change it to 33 MHz..Otherwise, Look at your mainboard for an
> oscillator, It should be 1 * 2 cm metalbox with text: 25.000 MHz or
> something like that. Cut it off. You don't have to melt tin or anything.. 

Bumping the clock speed does work, however you can toast your CPU.  
Becareful if you decide to do this.  I for one have a Cyrix 486DX57, 
evidently my MB manufacturer let that clock go a bit high.  I seem to 
remember someone saying Intel rates CPU 10% below what it could run at, 
to cover for production variations.  Hope this helps.

bm...@ripco.com (Tim Berger) writes:

>Samuli Salmela (sal...@mits.mdata.fi) wrote:
>[DELETED]
>: 	If it's not a question of money, then sell your system and buy a new
>: one: Gamer's Choice is here:

>: 	Pentium 90 MHz
>: 	S3 864 PCI Video adaptor
>: 	8 Megs of RAM
>: 	Gravis Ultrasound (MAX) Sound board
>:         
>For the Gamer's choice, I would change the GUS to a Roland SCC1b with some 
>type of SBPro, or an SB-compatible card with a Roland SCD-15 DB.
>The one you put above is a "Demoer's Choice."
>;)

I agree with that! The SB16/SCD-15 DB combo is quite a formidable setup.
Even Dark Forces works (well, on my system at least) even though the
README says it doesn't support it. The only game that fights once in a
while is ROTT. The game runs slowly once in a while, even the setup program,
if I turn on SB16 & SCD-15. Weird.
 
- Brian
(voic...@world.std.com)

In article <3elrmf$o...@prime.mdata.fi>
           sal...@mits.mdata.fi "Samuli Salmela" writes:

> : If I spend $165 for the additional memory, I believe it would run
> : faster (more space to sort the info out).  Is 8 meg what I really
> : need?  I thought the 25 Mhz had something more to do with it.  :/  Any
> : 486, 8meg players out there who can give me some advice?
> 
> It will sure run faster with +4 megs, but i'd prefer more efficient
> processor. For about $10 you can find a new oscillator running at 33 MHz,
> iNTEL's 486sx/25 is easily ran at 33 MHz. On your main board may be
> DIP-switches or jumpers choosing the clock-rate of your computer (MHz) - If
> so, change it to 33 MHz..Otherwise, Look at your mainboard for an
> oscillator, It should be 1 * 2 cm metalbox with text: 25.000 MHz or
> something like that. Cut it off. You don't have to melt tin or anything.. 
> Just go to nearest radiocomponent store and ask for oscillators.. and those
> white plastic binders - I don't know the word in English.. but anyway. It's
> easy! You can't break anything.. Or you differ from us.
> 
>         Another way to get more speed to your system is buying a new
> mainboard or a videoboard. If your mainboard has only 8- or 16-bit ISA
> slots, it's DOOMed to be slow. If it has VLB or even PCI slots, find a Tseng
> or S3 videoboard with less than $200, and you will have a very fast dos
> system, Descent will run smoothly. 
> 
>         If it's not a question of money, then sell your system and buy a new
> one: Gamer's Choice is here:
> 
>         Pentium 90 MHz
>         S3 864 PCI Video adaptor
>         8 Megs of RAM
>         Gravis Ultrasound (MAX) Sound board
Well, add 16MB ram. I have 16 on my DX33 with ISA gfx, and it can run
as fast as a DX266 VLB gfx with 8MB of ram.
>         
> With those: You can't find a game not running smoothly nowadays.. (Well, I
> haven't seen ORIGIN's games with that system, but.. ;)
>  
> 
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