🚀 go-pugleaf

On 27 Mar 1996 05:57:19 GMT, Blaine Dixon (bla...@wco.com) wrote:
> Jim Harkins (jhar...@netcom.com) wrote:
> : 
> : Duke3d is the game that told me my machine is outdated.  It's a 3.5 year old
> : 50 meg 486.  Oh well, I've been looking for an excuse to a) have a home
> : network; b) have a linux box permanantly connected to the net; and c) buy
> : I'm halfway through level 3, once I get past the laser beams the game is
> : unplayable.  It's too jerky, and the baddies get me as I bounce from 10
> : degrees to their left and 20 degrees to their right.  

> This is about what happens to me, with a 486SX 50MHZ PC, 10 megs of RAM I 
> could play it with the UNIVBE drivers up  to level three but I downloaded 
> the ATI M64vbe.com and it's ran slower ever since. Anyone know how to 
> uninstall the ATI M64uvbe? I get a max of 5 frams in the first level and 
> halfway through the 3rd level its 2 to 3 frames. Unplayable

I think there may be at least two problems.  First, get rid of the m64uvbe
driver, probably by editing AUTOEXEC.BAT.  The other problem may be the
fact that you have a 486SX rather than DX or DX2.

I can get playable frame rates on a 486DX2-50 with an ATI Mach 32 by scaling
the screen down.  It takes a little while to get used to reduced screen size,
but there is a lot less jerking around.  Just keep scaling the screen smaller
and smaller until you either get an acceptable frame rate or can't accept
a smaller screen...

The computer I run it on is a Gateway 2000, which at the time was about
the fastest 486DX2-50 you could buy (faster than a lot of DX2-66's), so
results may vary depending on your machine.

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