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Re: Duke and WIN 95

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From: Nemm... nemman
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 00:00
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In article <4lalcu$d...@klf.netconnect.com.au>, 
sa...@apollo.ruralnet.net.au says...
>
>
>        I hate to say this guys but I have a DX4/75 with 8 meg of RAM and 
Win
>95. All I have to do to run the Duke is to double click on it in
>Explorer. No fancy reboots, no nothing and it works like a charm....
>        Although I cannot run it in Super VGA I can run it full screen 
with
>everything else turned on.
>
>>Also, any other Windows 95 users out there?  How
>>> does Duke run?  I have 8 megs of RAM and it's
>>> clearly not enough.   It's going to be a while before
>>> I can upgrade, but hopefully when I do the Registered
>>> version will be out.
>>>
>
>>I have a P90, 2MEG Diamond PCI video card,16 Megs RAM. Duke runs nicely 
>>under the shell on my system. I get 20-30 fps in 640x480 (average). I 
>>get maybe 5 more if I run in DOS mode, but its not noticable to me. RAM 
>>is the key. You'll need 16MEG to run stably under Win 95. (I'm sure 
>>there are exceptions.) BTW, I set up a batch file to run UNIVBE 5.1, 
>>then Duke on top, then unload VBE when Duke is done. I get about 10 more 
>>fps with UNIVBE running. You can get it from the 3D Realms page. 
>>www.3drealms.com 
>>Please Reply and tell me if others have had similar experiences running 
>>this AWESOME game under Win95.
>
>>Cya, Scott
>
>Brought to you from SARTZ's place....
>   sa...@apollo.ruralnet.net.au
>     http:\\www.ruralnet.net.au\~sartz
>I have win95, 16 megs ram and run it high resolution just fine!!! 
Now running it over kali is a different story!!!!

PS Several of the duke nukem 3d www pages have icons for the game that way 
you can run it from the desktop. (just right click, select new...shortcut 
and browse for command line...then select icon.) I will post the icons I 
have.
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Subject: Re: Duke and WIN 95
Date: 1996/04/22
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