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Re: Diablo halts and spurts?

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From: Ryan
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 00:00
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I get that puase you are talking about, but I think it is disk access.. Or
cd... 
I have a P6-200  32 meg edo ram.. and 8x cd...
I think I need scsi devices to make it play perfectly smooth!!!

Dave Williams <will...@bose.com> wrote in article
<crgvi7l3owh.fsf@piranha.i-have-a-misconfigured-system-so-shoot-me>...
> 
> Has anybody else noticed Diablo halting during single user play?  Every
> once in a while, I'll get a freeze (usually when monsters are just
> coming onscreen or right after I've opened a trapped chest) followed by
> a spurt of action where everything happens too fast for me to do
> anything about it.
> 
> I have a P-133 with an 8x cdrom drive -- I think I have more than enough
> machine for the task, and this jumping doesn't seem to happen during CD
> or disk access.
> 
> Anybody out there seen this or have any clues?
> 
>  - dave
> 
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From: "Ryan" <rtr...@purdue.edu>
Subject: Re: Diablo halts and spurts?
Date: 1997/02/22
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