Re: Diablo halts and spurts?

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From: dje... David Lim
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 00:00

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In <5etgl0$2...@newsread.onramp.net> you@somehost.somedomain (John Blutarski) writes:

>Hmmm. Are you in Win95? My machine will do those 4 - 5 sequential pauses that
>last about a second each. Then all will be smooth for about 3 - 5 minutes until
>it does it all over again. It is a Win95 "problem/limitation/sacrifice" 
>(whatever you want to call it). Any game I play is subject to this. Microsoft 
>knows about this situation, so I have read somewhere on the internet. I did 
>find a way to get rid of those Win95 "pauses". I bought Win NT 4.0. It runs
>Diablo smooth as silk. No pauses, skips, or any problems. Before getting NT, I 
>installed Diablo on my Win95 HD. It had those "pauses" and the cd would mess
>up when thoses "pauses" occurred during cd access. NT fixes all that. So, there
>is light at the end of the tunnel.



>In article <crgvi7l3owh.fsf@piranha.i-have-a-misconfigured-system-so-shoot-me>, 
>will...@bose.com says...
>>
>>
>>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

I play diablo on a Pentium 120MHz with 16 Megs of RAM, I use Win95 as the OS,
and these 'pauses' come up pretty frequently. In fact, when I take the CD
out of the drive I find scratch marks on it!! 

Go figure.
	David

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From: dje...@cs.utas.edu.au (David Lim)
Subject: Re: Diablo halts and spurts?
Date: 1997/02/25
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