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Re: ABUSE, SVGA??

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From: ho... Eric A. Hobbs
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 00:00
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Andrew Leonard (aleo...@access.digex.net) wrote:
: dunk...@utdallas.edu (Alan V Dunkin) wrote:

: >_ (jae...@wpi.edu) wrote:
: >> Has anyone gotten Abuse demo to run at 640x480?  I have a Diamond Stealth 64 
: >> under win95.  No vesa drivers, PCI slot.

: >> Anyone like this game, hate it?  I played it for a bit, and its not bad.  Wish 
: >> I could experience SVGA tho.  And it is a bit dark, but thats easily fixable.

: >I managed to get it running in all video modes except 1280x1024 and that's
: >because my monitor won't handle it.  Basically it's the same but the window
: >is very small.  I'd just rather play in 320x200.

: For some reason, my... Vision64 won't run at that! ARGH! I have to
: choose either 680x400 or 1600x1024. This sucks! It's an S3 chipset, I
: think. This is under the DOS version; didn't try Linux version.

I've got a P-100 with a Diamond Stealth 64 DRAM with no VESA driver 
loaded and was able to get a full screen 640x480.   I almost liked 
playing it better at 320x200 because you couldn't see as much.  You have 
to be more careful.  At 640x480, it seemed to lose the constricting 
atmosphere and felt like Lode Runner.   

Occasionally, it would slow WAY down on my system at 640x480.  It wasn't 
permanent, but it was somewhat annoying.  My system does 91.9 3d Bench, 
so that shouldn't be a problem.

VERY fun game though!

Thanks.  Crack Dot Com is the only Crack I wan't to see while I'm eating...

--Eric
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From: ho...@uofport.edu (Eric A. Hobbs)
Subject: Re: ABUSE, SVGA??
Date: 1995/09/11
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