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Article #476Re: Hexen2 sucks
From: Brian Wilson
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 00:00
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 00:00
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mac wrote: > > P233MMX > 96megs RAM > Millenium II 4 MB > Awe32 sound > > Can only run game at 640 X 480 over win95, and sound is choppy at times, > video is choppy at times, usually at the wrong time. I can display game > at 1024 X 768 but game runs slightly choppy and music does not sync at > all. I should also add that I am in lamo level mode so not many ememies > about. Graphics are more colorful than quake, but the choppiness takes > away from overall experience. > > Anyone else??? > > mac My system: Intel P200 non-MMX 32MB FastPage Ram Diamond Stealth 2MB DRam Cheap SB-16 Clone My game runs fine with no problems at 320x200, but for some reason, when I switch to any other full screen mode, Direct Draw seems to think that it needs to run in a window. Same think happens with win-quake. But if I run normal Quake with the -winmem 24 argument, I run at 1024x768 at a virtually butter smooth framerate. Yet another argument that DirectX sucks.
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From: Brian Wilson <vai...@airmail.net> Subject: Re: Hexen2 sucks Date: 1997/09/25 Message-ID: <2330F1D24A9591B3.1DDA17DD1944CC65.FA7440A292040043@library-proxy.airnews.net> X-Deja-AN: 277248357 References: <5vvnka$j6i$1@gte2.gte.net> X-Orig-Message-ID: <342A17...@airmail.net> NNTP-Posting-Time: Thu Sep 25 02:47:23 1997 Organization: INTERNET AMERICA NNTP-Proxy-Relay: library.airnews.net Newsgroups: alt.games.quake2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit