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Article #1676DOOM Tip for slow 386 computers...
From: rien... Roderick M. Riensche
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 17:38
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 17:38
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Greetings everyone. I am running DOOM on my 386SX-25Mhz (pretty slow). Until a couple of days ago, I had to shrink the window down to its smallest size to make the game playable (high detail--at small sizes, detail becomes more important). Well, I was playing with my BIOS setup, and found that if I change my Shadow RAM setting from "Both (Main & Video)" to "Video" I can bump the size up two or three notches (if I lower detail, which isn't a problem with the bigger size). So..... If you've got a slow computer, try this out.. YOu might be suprised. Rick -- ______________________________________________________________________________ -Roderick (Rick) M. Riensche | PO Box 5097 | o o -Computer Technician/EE Student | Benton City WA | ---- -Soon-to-be-CEO :) | 99320 | Have a day. ----------------------<rien...@beta.tricity.wsu.edu>-------------------------
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Newsgroups: alt.games.doom Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!concert!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!news-feed-2.peachnet.edu!umn.edu!gaia.ucs.orst.edu!news.uoregon.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!serval!beta.tricity.wsu.edu!riensche From: rien...@beta.tricity.wsu.edu (Roderick M. Riensche) Subject: DOOM Tip for slow 386 computers... Message-ID: <1994Jan14.173840.24834@serval.net.wsu.edu> Sender: ne...@serval.net.wsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Washington State University TriCities Date: Fri, 14 Jan 94 17:38:40 GMT Lines: 20 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit