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Started by Halfgaar
Fri, 15 Aug 2003 17:19
Descent 1 running speed and Descent 1, 2 and 3 mouse interface
Author: Halfgaar
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 17:19
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 17:19
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Hi, I've got a problem running Descent on my Athlon XP 1800+. It's going much too fast! Well, actually, some things go much to fast. It fires faster, spins faster, but accels en decells the same. Even in multiplayergames, my ship bounces and fires much faster then the ones of players with slower machines. Is there a fix for this? I've got another question about Descent 1, 2 and 3, about the mouse interface. Descent 1 and 2 have the problem that even on the fastest setting, the mousespeed is slooooooowwww. Is this fixable? And in Descent 3, when the mouse is set to "mouselook", even on the lowest sensitivity, it goes faaaaaaaaaaaaaaasssssssssttttttt. A cm from the mouse spins me around 3 times. Again, is this fixable? TIA Halfgaar -- To send email, change nospam.com into yahoo.com.
Re: Descent 1 running speed and Descent 1, 2 and 3 mouse interface
Author: Roger Squires
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 00:22
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 00:22
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Get this (there are different sound engine versions) http://d1x.warpcore.org/ The newest builds of D1X are here http://reprehensible.net/~donut/d1x/ Use the menu options to set the framerate to 35fps, which was the original design framerate. That should do it :) For Descent2, http://icculus.org/d2x/ rms
Re: Descent 1 running speed and Descent 1, 2 and 3 mouse interface
Author: Halfgaar
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 15:24
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 15:24
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Roger Squires wrote: > Get this (there are different sound engine versions) > http://d1x.warpcore.org/ > > The newest builds of D1X are here > http://reprehensible.net/~donut/d1x/ > > Use the menu options to set the framerate to 35fps, which was the original > design framerate. That should do it :) > > For Descent2, http://icculus.org/d2x/ > > rms I'll have a go at it. But the D2x is still unstable is it not? Halfgaar -- To send email, change nospam.com into yahoo.com.
Re: Descent 1 running speed and Descent 1, 2 and 3 mouse interface
Author: Mike Patterson
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 19:52
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 19:52
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On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 17:24:44 +0200, Halfgaar <voor_achter@nospam.com> wrote: >Roger Squires wrote: > >> Get this (there are different sound engine versions) >> http://d1x.warpcore.org/ >> >> The newest builds of D1X are here >> http://reprehensible.net/~donut/d1x/ >> >> Use the menu options to set the framerate to 35fps, which was the original >> design framerate. That should do it :) >> >> For Descent2, http://icculus.org/d2x/ >> >> rms > >I'll have a go at it. But the D2x is still unstable is it not? > >Halfgaar Is it? I've been using it for a few weeks on my new 2GHz laptop, and the only problem I've seen is that one time after quitting the game the screen resoluition stayed at the game's setting, had to manually reset to normal. Mike Mike Patterson Please remove the spamtrap to email me.
Re: Descent 1 running speed and Descent 1, 2 and 3 mouse interface
Author: Halfgaar
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 21:38
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 21:38
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Mike Patterson wrote: > Is it? I've been using it for a few weeks on my new 2GHz laptop, and > the only problem I've seen is that one time after quitting the game > the screen resoluition stayed at the game's setting, had to manually > reset to normal. Well, that's what the site said. But that still leaves Descent 3. Descent 3 has a very nice atomosphere, but I can't play it very well because of the mouse. In mouselook the mouse goes too fast and ik flightsim mode the mouse is inverted. I hate inverted mouse. I played it a while and when I got back to windows I kept moving the cursor in the wrong direction. How can I disable inverted Y-axis? TIA Halfgaar -- To send email, change nospam.com into yahoo.com.
Re: Descent 1 running speed and Descent 1, 2 and 3 mouse interface
Author: Roger Squires
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 07:58
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 07:58
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The following is a note for D2X about updating the dlls for it. It works great for me. I haven't tried Descent3 lately, you might ask on www.descentbb.net rms >> I just downloaded and tried D2x 0.2.3, and it works amazing. >> The texture problems I reported a while back are gone and it >> runs like a charm. The only problem I'm having is that at >> least the OpenGL version is giving me some lagging audio. > > that happens to everyone (on windows)... I have no idea why > (yet) I had that exact problem on my WinXP box with CygWin compiling d2x, both 0.2.0 and 0.2.4 versions. It went away when I downloaded and installed the latest SDL.DLL binary for win32 from libsdl.org. I replaced every copy of the DLL I had on my hard drive. I didn't try that initially because compiling d2x seems to require having the SDL source code with its sdl-config script. I kept the SDL source so I can re-compile d2x, but I use the binary distribution of SDL.DLL. I also had the same problem of only being able to run d2x-sdl.exe once before having to reboot. And it crashed a LOT. The new DLL fixed that too.
D2x (Was: Descent 1 running speed and Descent 1, 2 and 3 mouse interface)
Author: Halfgaar
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 12:54
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 12:54
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Roger Squires wrote: > I had that exact problem on my WinXP box with CygWin compiling d2x, both > 0.2.0 and 0.2.4 versions. It went away when I downloaded and installed > the > latest SDL.DLL binary for win32 from libsdl.org. I replaced every copy of > the DLL I had on my hard drive. I didn't try that initially because > compiling d2x seems to require having the SDL source code with its > sdl-config script. I kept the SDL source so I can re-compile d2x, but I > use the binary distribution of SDL.DLL. > > I also had the same problem of only being able to run d2x-sdl.exe once > before having to reboot. And it crashed a LOT. The new DLL fixed that > too. I've got it running (d2x), with the new SDL lib. I'm not sure, but it still seems like the sound is lagging a bit. And I'm having problems displaying the movies. Another thing that's quite anoying is that I can't see the guide-bot interface when I press shift-F4. It responds to commands, I just can't see what I'm doing. Anyone else suffering from this? Halfgaar -- To send email, change nospam.com into yahoo.com.
Re: Descent 1 running speed and Descent 1, 2 and 3 mouse interface
Author: Genghis
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 19:37
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 19:37
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"Halfgaar" <voor_achter@nospam.com> wrote in message news:3f3ea41e$0$138$edd6591c@news.versatel.net... > Mike Patterson wrote: > > > Is it? I've been using it for a few weeks on my new 2GHz laptop, and > > the only problem I've seen is that one time after quitting the game > > the screen resoluition stayed at the game's setting, had to manually > > reset to normal. > > Well, that's what the site said. > > But that still leaves Descent 3. Descent 3 has a very nice atomosphere, but > I can't play it very well because of the mouse. In mouselook the mouse goes > too fast and ik flightsim mode the mouse is inverted. I hate inverted > mouse. I played it a while and when I got back to windows I kept moving the > cursor in the wrong direction. How can I disable inverted Y-axis? > You can in fact invert the mouse in D3's flightsim mode: Main Menu -> Options -> Configure -> Joy/Mouse -> Pitch -> Invert (Y/N) Good luck! > TIA > > Halfgaar > -- > To send email, change nospam.com into yahoo.com.
Re: Descent 1 running speed and Descent 1, 2 and 3 mouse interface
Author: Halfgaar
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 16:47
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 16:47
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Genghis wrote: > You can in fact invert the mouse in D3's flightsim mode: > > Main Menu -> Options -> Configure -> Joy/Mouse -> Pitch -> Invert (Y/N) > > Good luck! Can that be done in D3? I must be blind then. I'll check it out. Halfgaar -- To send email, change nospam.com into yahoo.com.
Re: Descent 1 running speed and Descent 1, 2 and 3 mouse interface
Author: Halfgaar
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 20:24
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 20:24
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Genghis wrote: > You can in fact invert the mouse in D3's flightsim mode: > > Main Menu -> Options -> Configure -> Joy/Mouse -> Pitch -> Invert (Y/N) > > Good luck! An update: I found the controls, the invert option was hidden behind a question mark. I thought that was help. Anyway, now I can play!. I hope I won't get stuck where I got stuck years ago. I'll cross that bridge when I come to it :) Halfgaar -- To send email, change nospam.com into yahoo.com.
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