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Re: Doom on OS/2

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From: Berchm...
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 16:26
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In <CJCHx...@ariel.cs.yorku.ca>, pet...@ariel.cs.yorku.ca (Peter Forth) writes:
>I am running DOOM on a 486/33 with a trident video card and 16 Megs
>memory.  I run OS/2 with the Boot Manager installed so that I can
>play Doom both in OS/2 and DOS.  In OS/2 I set the DOS settings
>to the ones recommended in the readme file (thank you VERY much for
>providing these).  I do however notice that Doom runs slower in OS/2.
>As a reference Low-Resolution on OS/2 is about as fast as high-resolution
>under DOS.  Other than that everything works fine.
>
>Have other noticed this property as well?  Is it something that is
>fixable or is it inevitable that OS/2 will be slower.  Usually it runs
>DOS faster than DOS itself but, DOOM isn't exactly usual.
>
>Peter Forth
>pet...@ariel.cs.yorku.ca
>
>
 if you have an extra partition, you may add DOS 5.02 in the partition and then 
build an Icon calling this to be your OS/2 DOS.  This may improve your speed. If you
do not have Local Bus, then you may suffer from decreased 32-bit performace, which 
will affect you 16-bit DOS as well, if it is running inside OS/2.  I assume that you
are runnning in a DOS full screen, as anything else would obviously slow down your
video card.

Berch?
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