🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: alt.games.diablo
Article #1679

Re: Patch slows video

#1679
From: rco... Ronald Courtright
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 00:00
23 lines
1444 bytes
Guardian (guar...@capital.net) wrote:
: > Anyone else notice a slowdown in video since installing the patch.  My
: > character moved more smoothly through dungeon before I installed the
: > patch.  I tried it over LAN, BNet, and modem...same results.

: Yes, on my ppro233/Matrox Millenium 4mb/64meg machine, when walking by
: characters (the healer, griswold, etc), I can notice a flickering around
: them, which was not there before..definitely slower..

--
Oh, yes, I have noticed the flicker, too.  I was afraid my video card was
giving out.  'Nice' to know it is the software and not the hardware. (I
stress the quotes for irony alert.)

Be seeing you,

Ron Courtright
    _____________________________________________________________________ 
   |                                                                     |
   | PGP Key ID:        4DF26355                                         |
   | PGP Fingerprint:   49 E4 D4 34 B1 4E 51 D1  94 65 CD 10 B2 A6 A4 52 |
   |_____________________________________________________________________|
Technical Details
Message-ID: <5f7ho0$e59$1@nntp2.ba.best.com>
Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mail
References: <5f5tlf$jtb@news3.texas.net> <01bc25b4$959a7540$c7ac61cc@guardian>

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
From: rco...@nntp.best.com (Ronald Courtright)
Subject: Re: Patch slows video
Date: 1997/02/28
Message-ID: <5f7ho0$e59$1@nntp2.ba.best.com>
X-Deja-AN: 222376458
References: <5f5tlf$jtb@news3.texas.net> <01bc25b4$959a7540$c7ac61cc@guardian>
Newsgroups: alt.games.diablo
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit