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dav...@interlog.com (Dave Glue) wrote:

>suf...@cris.com (Jason Zisk) wrote:

>>Windowed is slower for you?  On mine I swear it runs faster...or at
>>least the same speed.  Only time it slows down is when I am
>>downloading or doing something in the background, then I switch to
>>full screen.
>>	486/100 Mach64 Vid Card 16 megs ram.

>The video card has a lot to do with this most likely.  I have a DX2/66
>with 8 megs, and it certainly is slower windowed- even full screen
>"fast" isn't incredibly smooth on my machine- certainly not Jazz
>Jackrabbit quality scrolling or anything.

>But as far as I know, Pitfall doesn't even use Directdraw, let alone
>using the graphics processor in any Windows accelerator cards.  I
>heard it was only WinG- is this true?  Impressive if so.

I beleive(not exactly sure) that it uses an very early beta of the
SDK.  Don't quote me, this is info gathered from another
newsgroup(programming related of course).

On my brothers 486/33 with a trident the game is easily as smooth as
Jazz.  Full screen of course.  Make sure you set the slider to "real
time" in the system properties for the game.  Otherwise it will be
quite slow(it gives up quite a bit of resources to the system if you
set it otherwise).  On my system I have it on the middle setting, but
I think you are right, the video card probably helps a lot.




- Jason Zisk a.k.a. Sufferin' Pup
- Sophmore at the University of Hartford College of Arts and Sciences
- email: suf...@cris.com

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