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Re: Duke Nukem is a WIMP

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From: wine... Steve Wineberg
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 00:00
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:>>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 don't quite agree with your statement here.  I been running 
:>(and playing, for that matter) Duke3d on a 486/66 and it has ran 
:>BEAUTIFULLY!  In fact, I'd say much nicer and smoother than DoomII ever 
:>was.  I just did as suggested and boot completly clean and I am even able 
:>to open up to full screen mode without any sluggishness.  :)  so much for 
:>pentiums :)

I read these, and decided to try the game for laughs on my word processing 
machine.  It's a Cyrix 486DLC-40 (FPU, Diamond Speedstar64 (ISA) 8meg) and 
while it *certainly* wasn't as responsive as my DX2-80 with 16meg, it was 
playable.  And with only a 14" monitor on it (as opposed to the 17" on the 
80) I wouldn't want to play it at much more than 320x200 on there anyway.  I 
don't think people with low-end machines should be dissuaded from trying it, 
after all, if they're used to their machines, they don't EXPECT blazing 
performance.
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From: wine...@iquest.net (Steve Wineberg)
Subject: Re: Duke Nukem is a WIMP
Date: 1996/02/22
Message-ID: <1996Feb22.024608.22959@indyvax.iupui.edu>
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