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In article <42gcll$h...@masala.cc.uh.edu> pit...@uhibpd.phys.uh.edu (Sergio Pitanga) writes:
>From: pit...@uhibpd.phys.uh.edu (Sergio Pitanga)
>Subject: Re: Games under Win95? HAHAHA!!
>Date: 5 Sep 1995 02:29:09 GMT

>In article <42fb4h$1...@utaipx02.uta.edu>,
>Jay B Biggerstaff <JBB...@utarlg.uta.edu> wrote:
>>chris (ch...@skypoint.com) wrote:
>>: In article <4230ac$6...@news.mountain.net>,
>>:    ge...@ahcbsd1.ovnet.com (Gene) wrote:
>>: >If that cheesy 'Hover' game is ANY indication of how, 'smooth', games
>>: >can run under Win95 using the built in routines offered by Win95......
>>: >I'll stick with DOS!! I mean, the game updated at like 1 frame every
>>: >20 seconds.
>>: > And if ONE person says I have a slow system and it runs nice on THEIR
>>: >system...... I'll personally hunt you down and beat you up for being so
>>: >stupid! I'm not some newbie with a 386SX-16.
>>: > The game is slow on every system I've seen it on. That ranges from
>>: >DX4-100s to P90s to my P133 with a Stingray PCI video card. (Pumping
>>: >out 132fps in 3DBench!!!!!!!!!!!)
>>: >
>>
>>: No, you're right.Hover sucks bad..even on 100+s.Play a few more games and 
>>: you'll see the perf is just as good as DOS (& that's not even '95 specific 
>>: coding).  Hover is just a _*_POORLY_*_ coded game.
>>
>>If you think Hover runs slow on Win95 then you should see Phantasmagoria which
>>even has an autoplay feature.  I have a 486DX4/100, 16M of mem, and a Plextor
>>4X CD ROM (625K conv., 14500K extended) and it ran VERY choppy in Win 95.  The
>>box states that it will run on a 486/25, but it doesn't tell you that's in DOS
>>mode.  The manual in the box states that Phant requires a 486/66 or above for
>>smooth operation in WIn 95. I have a faster system than that and the audio and
>>video was chopped up, especially during the intro.  Yet, when I reboot to DOS
>>mode and run it, it works fine and is smooth.  Anyone have an explanation for
>>this?  It's funny how Sierra always seems to hide the disclaimers inside the
>>box.  If we all had X RAY vision, we'd all be better off in purchasing these
>>products.  As for Microsoft,they're not any better for pushing this operating
>>system as being efficient to play games.  People should have to upgrade to a
>>Pentium 90+ just to use this operating system efficiently.  It's a 32 bit
>>operating system and should run great on a 32 bit system.
>>

>It was smooth in my system.  I have a P90, 16 Mb.  
>-- 

>                      pit...@uhibpd.phys.uh.edu

I use os/2 warp and it works VERY smooth for me with a 486dx2/50!