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Article #148578Re: More Wing Commander 2 problems...
From: Karl CFF Frank
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 00:00
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 00:00
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Markus Castren wrote:
> >>I know this is probably something to
> >> do with the soundcard (I got SBLive)
> >> and its IRQ settings, but what can I do to correct this?
> >Sounds like it. Need way more details here...
> Ok, just tell me what exactly do you need to know and I'll provide it.
IRQ-, ADDRESS-, DMA-, ...- settings for your soundcard (PCI setting and
ISA emulation settings) as well as for the WC game. List of other
IRQ/ADDRESS/DMA using resources.
> With 10% it's almost playable but MoSlo makes the game play almost
> impossible
> as it's very jerky and the slowdown is actually only like for 1 of every 4th
> frame
Get the same effect for WC1 on my PC. As WC2 doesn't need a slowdown at
all I only selectr a mild setting to get the movies back on sync.
> >Only disable the internal cache. Keep the external one on. Both caches
> >should work fine however for WC1.
> Which is which? I have to admit I don't know that much about it to tell.
> Bios calls them
> Cpu Cache 1 and 2.
Internal should be 1 and external 2. But if in doubt just try both
combinations of on and off.
> Because if I run Windows on the bg it would consume far too much memory. The
> only way
> I've gotten the game to run is by making a boot disk.
Depends on your win setup. I'v 615k free in a DOS window
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From: Karl \"CFF\" Frank <kfrank@cosy.sbg.ac.at.DELETEME> Subject: Re: More Wing Commander 2 problems... Date: 2000/02/11 Message-ID: <38A3D254.A87A8B36@cosy.sbg.ac.at.DELETEME> X-Deja-AN: 584627269 References: <87s8gq$bap$1@tron.sci.fi> <38A1AE10.27CC8140@cosy.sbg.ac.at.DELETEME> <87usdv$3sq$1@tron.sci.fi> X-Complaints-To: ab...@cosy.sbg.ac.at X-Trace: esel.cosy.sbg.ac.at 950291749 1893 141.201.109.160 (11 Feb 2000 17:55:49 GMT) Organization: Department of Computer Science, Salzburg University Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.games.wing-commander Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit