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Article #63Re: Links
From: bdel...
Date: Fri, 15 May 1992 19:03
Date: Fri, 15 May 1992 19:03
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In article <uugk9...@agate.berkeley.edu> writes: > In article <presiden....@sfu.ca> pres...@fraser.sfu.ca (Pat Presidente) writes: > >After getting Windows 3.0, I tried running Links from inside Windows > >and got the message to exit completely from Windows before running it. > >After installing Windows 3.1, I tred again - this time it started up > >nicely. Unfortunately, as I proceeded into the game the screen redraw > >was unbearably slow. > Anyway, the point is not to run any graphics-intensive games from Windows > unless you are ready for a major performance slowdown. I had the same problem with Links, but Castle Wolfenstein works fine when I run it under Windows. Absolutely NO performance penalty (but Links slows to half of a crawl). Something more must be going on here... -- "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you." -- Nietzsche
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