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Re: Speeding Up Warcraft II

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From: russ... Russell Patterson
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 1996 00:00
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Mike O'Connor <mik...@popd.ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>brian.s...@awaiter.com (Brian Sawatzky) wrote:
>>-> From: noos...@Direct.CA
>>-> Subject: Speeding Up Warcraft II
>>->
>>-> I am running Warcraft II with just the minimum requirments: 486
>>-> SX-33, 8 megs, etc.
>>-> Anyway, the game runs fine, the on-screen characters move at a
>>-> reasonable speed
>>-> ,
>>-> but when scrolling, and moving the mouse, it is REALLY choppy.  Does
>>-> w
>>-> whether to load such TSR's as Smartdrive, or others, or whether to re
>>-> to
>>-> speed up the game.  Also, does the game run better with or without EM
>>-> in
>>-> advance...
>>I have the same problem, and i am useing a 486 DX 66

>Try creating a "bare bones" boot disk and see if that solves your 
>problems. Bare bones means just that....just enough to launch the 
>program.... rem out all references to EMM386,SmartDrive,and possibly even 
>your sound settings as the sound should be okay from within..just make 
>sure your mouse driver is loaded...

>Mike


Make sure you load the mouse driver in lower memory.  See the readme
files that get loaded onto your hard drive for more info.
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From: russ...@ix.netcom.com (Russell Patterson)
Subject: Re: Speeding Up Warcraft II
Date: 1996/01/01
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