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Re: Abuse is *JERKY*

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From: fs... Fairfax Shield McCandlish ...
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 00:00
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mil...@rpi.edu  writes:
> schi...@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Andreas Schildbach) writes:
> 
> >I am very disappointed with this game. Great athmosphere, great
> >sounds, wonderful gfx, big potential for great gameplay, but one thing
> >kills the whole game:
> 
> >Abuse is jerky as hell.
> >  . . . 
> >Crack.com, please make this game scroll smooth as silk! PLEASE!!
> 
> >And don't tell me my system is too slow: Plato/P100/ET4000W32p has to
> >be enough for this task!
> 
> 	Sorry... It's not Crack.com's fault here.  I'm running it on a
> 486dx-50, about a third the speed of your machine, and at 320x200 res, it's
> just fine.  It bogs a bit when I crack up the resolution, but that's to be
> expected.  I'd start by checking out your video benchmark against those of
> similar systems.
> 
	You apparently have no conception of a what a good
frame rate is. Abuse cannot go above a certain frame rate.. do
this, load up Tyrian next to Abuse, then try to tell me how
smooth Abuse is. If there's anything Abuse lacks (besides
player-physics) it's smoothness, because of the self
implemented delay.

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Subject: Re: Abuse is *JERKY*
Date: 1995/09/18
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