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Article #841Re: Doom on OS/2
From: Berchm...
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 16:26
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? This .sig is my .sig, This .sig is my .sig. from the word 'this', down to the word that.
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Newsgroups: alt.games.doom Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news.ans.net!newsgate.watson.ibm.com!watnews.watson.ibm.com!sernews!news From: Berchm...@vnet.ibm.com(berchmeister) Subject: Re: Doom on OS/2 Sender: ne...@sernews.raleigh.ibm.com Message-ID: <CJIz0q.15Eq@sernews.raleigh.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 16:26:50 GMT Lines: 27 Reply-To: Berchm...@vnet.ibm.com(berchmeister) References: <CJCHx7.BG0@ariel.cs.yorku.ca> Nntp-Posting-Host: sct2.raleigh.ibm.com Organization: IBM-ISSC SER Solution Center X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.00 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit