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Article #2679Re: Win95 and games: good news...
From: a260... Galasso Emilio N
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 00:00
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 00:00
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In article <3mvkr5$l...@ixnews4.ix.netcom.com>, Clayton Cahill <cha...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > >Yeah, but how do they work in protected mode 32 bit games like WC3, DF >et all. I have heard that there will be problems. True? > > >I actually am curious. I actually played and sold WC3 before I began running Win95... but I CAN say that Dark Forces works fine. It's really hard to tell that you're even running it under Win95 until you hit the loading portions of the game... they take a lot longer. However, I can understand that since there's a lot of memory management going on... but once the game is going, it plays damn fast. Let's see, what games have I tried under Win95... Dark Forces, Tie Fighter, X-Wing CD, X-Com 2, Descent, Doom II, Alone in the Dark III... hmm, I know I've played more but I can't think of them right now. Tie Fighter, X-Wing, X-Com 2, Descent, oh.. Heretic too... they all ran in Window as well. Mind you, it's kinda too slow to be playable in a Window (except maybe X-Com) but it's neat to see it run that way. The only problem I found is that Win95 didn't seem to give the Windowed game control of the palette when it was in focus... all of them ran fine in full-screen though. I also had most of these running under OS/2 with no problems either... though I never got the chance to try Descent or X-Com II under OS/2. Tie Fighter, X-Wing, Heretic, etc all ran in a window under OS/2 as well. -- Emilio Galasso a260...@cdf.toronto.edu University of Toronto, Computer Science.
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From: a260...@cdf.toronto.edu (Galasso Emilio N) Subject: Re: Win95 and games: good news... Date: 1995/04/18 Message-ID: <D78nt7.60H@cdf.toronto.edu> X-Deja-AN: 101089143 sender: ne...@cdf.toronto.edu (Usenet News) references: <3mtquj$hq2@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> <D77pB0.8BD@caprica.com> <3mvkr5$l82@ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> organization: University of Toronto, Computing Disciplines Facility newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.misc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit