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Started by Rick... Rick Pali
Mon, 17 Jan 1994 05:01
DOOM - READ - RAMDRIVE.SYS
Author: Rick... Rick Pali
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 05:01
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 05:01
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RAK> I disagree with you. If you have a _hardware_ disk cache (i.e. a caching RAK> disk controller) then ALL your disk data is funneled through the rather RAK> slow AT bus (8 mhz, 12 if you are lucky). A _software_ cache is in ram, RAK> running at full system speed (i.e. 33 mhz). Not on a localbus 33Mhz machine... Rick.
Re: DOOM - READ - RAMDRIVE.SYS
Author: kru... Roger A. Krupski
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 22:04
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 22:04
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>> A _software_ cache is in ram, running at full system speed (i.e. 33 mhz). > Not on a localbus 33Mhz machine... Yes, *IF* you are talking about a local bus machine. I was not. I was talking about an ordinary ISA bus machine. Besides, even with a cache and local bus, there is a limit to how fast data can be read from a hard drive. Take the number of actual sectors per track, take the platter RPM, do some simple division and you find out what the PHYSICAL limit of the hard drive is. No cache in the world can make that better. Roger -- Roger A. Krupski .-- .- ..--- ... -.- --- State University of New York at Buffalo Internet: kru...@acsu.buffalo.edu
No sound!
Author: awig... Adam Wiggins
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 01:38
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 01:38
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I've read through all the articles here and it seems that no one else is having this problem (that are talking about it anyway!). I have a regular SoundBlaster (ver 1.5) and a 486/33 with a Tseng Labs 1 meg VGA card. The thing runs fine, and I get FM music, but no digitized sounds! I've set the parameters correctly in the setup and I've tried both three channels and one channel but not a peep... anyone else having this problem? I've got 4 megs of memory...does one need more to get the sounds? ...Boone
Re: No sound!
Author: hro... Hormazd Romer
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 17:00
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 17:00
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In article <59...@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>, awig...@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Adam Wiggins) writes: > I've read through all the articles here and it seems that no one > else is having this problem (that are talking about it anyway!). I > have a regular SoundBlaster (ver 1.5) and a 486/33 with a Tseng Labs > 1 meg VGA card. The thing runs fine, and I get FM music, but no > digitized sounds! I've set the parameters correctly in the setup > and I've tried both three channels and one channel but not a peep... > anyone else having this problem? I've got 4 megs of memory...does > one need more to get the sounds? > > ...Boone > I have the same problem. Except I have a SB comaptible. I too have 4MB of memory, but I don't think it has anything to do with that. I think its a bug/incompatibility with the program. Look out for the new releases of Doom, ver 1.2 etc. They promise better SB support. A lot of people have this problem with the sound FX, so you're not the only one. ------------------------------------------------------------------- | Hormazd Romer | Internet Address | | University of Waterlooo | hro...@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca | | Computer Science | | -------------------------------------------------------------------
Re: No sound!
Author: kru... Roger A. Krupski
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 1994 02:50
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 1994 02:50
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> I've read through all the articles here and it seems that no one > else is having this problem (that are talking about it anyway!). I > have a regular SoundBlaster (ver 1.5) and a 486/33 with a Tseng Labs > 1 meg VGA card. The thing runs fine, and I get FM music, but no > digitized sounds! Try checking to see if you have ANY card set to IRQ-2. Also, be sure your video card's IRQ is *disabled* (if you have that option). I found that DOOM doesn't seem to want ANYTHING on IRQ-2. Good luck. Roger -- Roger A. Krupski .-- .- ..--- ... -.- --- State University of New York at Buffalo Internet: kru...@acsu.buffalo.edu
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