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In article <Dn2vK...@eskimo.com>, Mark Riel <r...@eskimo.com> writes
>>>One last word: DON'T TRY to run this game on a 486DX2/66.  It must drop 75%
>>>of the frames.  You'll need a Pentium or one of those hopped-up
>>>clock-ntupled AMD 486 chips to get any performance out of this thing.
>>
>>I run it on a DX33. Very nicely, thankyou. 8fps in the mode I play at
>>(2/3 screen window, sound FX only - no music or ambience). I can bear
>>8fps.
>>--
>       8fps? Too slow. I have a 33, not for much longer though. One 

Wrong. Nothing is "too slow". Only too slow for certain people. I'd play
Duke at 4fps. I've played Screamer at 1fps and managed 33secs for the
first track, INCLUDING a powerslide through the tunnel. Beat that :).

>thing us 33 users should do is run it in screen mode 0. What the .cfg 
>file says is chained, but I'm pretty sure means unchained. 33%-50% 
>faster, really!

Try running in S3 enhanced mode. Might help.

>thing really wants more than 8 megs. I play a with a little smaller 

I've got 16, it's the gfx card that slows things up (ISA Cirrus). Ah
well, just faxed the order for the P120, bye bye Slowsville :)
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