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Patrick Deupree (pdeu...@metronet.com) wrote:
: Jay B Biggerstaff (JBB...@utarlg.uta.edu) wrote:
: : Here's something that all of you might be interested in. Phantasmagoria has an
: : Autoplay feature which is specifically designed for Win 95, yet when I ran it
: : in Win '95 on my DX4/100, I got all kinds of choppy music and animation. 

: Just to set the record straight, here's the deal on autoplay.  There is a 
: single "autoplay" file on the CD with two lines of text in it that acts 
: kind of like an autoexec.bat file and automatically starts the 
: appropriate start up program.  Voila, you now have autoplay.

: Past that, Phantasmagoria is simply a Windows 3.1 game.  It is not 32 
: bit.  It does not use DirectDraw or any variation on it.

: : However, when I ran it in DOS, it ran smooth and with no skipping.  What's the
: : deal here?  I thought Win '95 was supposed to be FASTER!!!  It's not with
: : Phant.  THe manual specifically says that the minimum requirement is a
: : 486SX/25, but it doesn't say in which mode on the box.  When you open the box
: : and read the instructions, it specifically says that in order to get the best
: : performance in Windows, you must have a 486DX2/66 or above. I had higher than
: : that with a 4X CD ROM and 16M of mem and it ran horrible.  The 486SX/25
: : requirement was for the DOS version.  THey say that games will run faster in
: : WIn '95 and I think they're just blowing more corporate spew in our faces. 
: : This game doesn't run any faster in Win '95 than my grandmother can sprint
: : hurdles.  What's the explanation?   (I don't run memory managers and I have
: : 625K conv and over 14500 extended mem).  

: Well, I have a 486DX4/100 with 16 meg and Windows 95 and Phantasmagoria 
: runs very nicely on my system.  I don't have any pauses in the video.  I 
: don't have any pauses in the game, other than the ones caused by the way 
: the game changes "views".  My guess is that you have something else wrong 
: with your system.



Hardly.  It's a new Micron.  It's probably the crappy 16 bit CD ROM drivers.
I have a PAS16 and a GUS ACE and my Plextor 4X is SCSI.  I hook it up to my
PAS16 and use the Trantor drivers to run it. Could that be the problem?  If it
is, where can I find drivers for Win '95?  I ran a speed check and it only got
up to 440K/sec transfer rate and was recognized as a "triple spin".  I know
that's not right.