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Re: C&C Generals & Zero:Hour slowdown & stuttering

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From: Wax
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 01:15
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"Iguana" <Iguana^MGT@email.t-com.hr> wrote in message 
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>
> So, does it start to swap when that happens, or not? Does your HDD LED 
> blink constantly, or not, during the slowdown?
>

Given the location of my tower, I have not been able to directly observe 
this, but it's worth a look.  Thanks.

>
> Well, I don't know if you are the OP (e-mail's different), but I thought


Sorry for not mentioning before - I am someone else.

> he has a weaker machine than yours. If you have 2 gigs of RAM, then those 
> matches with slowdowns should be REALLY long, to get the slowdown, me 
> thinks. You could try to contact the team behind the Boss Generals mod, as 
> they seem to have a lot experience with SAGE engine's bugs and inner 
> workings. Or just try the mod and see if the slowdowns will parish or 
> delay.

Might be worth it for me to ask.  I did try downloading and installing the 
mod, but I found out later that it does not work with The First Decade which 
I'm running now.  Too bad since it looks very interesting on it's own!
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From: "Wax" <no@addy.com>
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Subject: Re: C&C Generals & Zero:Hour slowdown & stuttering
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:15:10 -0600
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