Descent on a 486dx2 66
Mike Jovanovic
Gu> Hmmmm, I was impressed with the 3-D movement but even at lowest
Gu> graphics detail, it was a lot choppier than Doom or Heretic. I will
Gu> have to try changing my sound card setting to maybe a plain SB even
Gu> though I have a SB16 with a Waveblaster? My system is a 486dx2 66 VLB
Gu> with a VLB graphics card. Again, Doom and Heretic run smooth as glass
Gu> on my machine - Descent is just too choppy for me. I guess I was
Gu> spoiled with the other two programs - had I not know how smooth they
Gu> were, I would most likely not even complaining about Descent...
You should probably look into getting a faster video card, like a wt32
based chipset or something. Also, check your card to make sure that it's
not set to 1 wait state or something like that. It should be smooth as
glass on your system. I know it is on mine, (486 DX266 with VLB graphics
with a Pro Audio Studio in 16 bit mode, as well as a turtle beach midi card
pushing out the midi sound)
In-fact, the graphics are too smooth on the machine I run it on (thats a good
thing though).
-Mike
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Dennis Cheng
I don't know what kind of 486 could run Descent 'as smooth as glass' but
the only thing i tried (that worked too) was freeing up more memory and
..overclocking my chip to 80mhz. ;)
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Mike Jovanovic (mi...@ripco.com) wrote:
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Ashley Burgess
Cheng) writes:
You all need more memory, thats all !
John Wallace
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> Gu> Hmmmm, I was impressed with the 3-D movement but even at lowest
> Gu> graphics detail, it was a lot choppier than Doom or Heretic. I will
> Gu> have to try changing my sound card setting to maybe a plain SB even
> Gu> though I have a SB16 with a Waveblaster? My system is a 486dx2 66 VLB
> Gu> with a VLB graphics card. Again, Doom and Heretic run smooth as glass
> Gu> on my machine - Descent is just too choppy for me. I guess I was
> Gu> spoiled with the other two programs - had I not know how smooth they
> Gu> were, I would most likely not even complaining about Descent...
>You should probably look into getting a faster video card, like a wt32
>based chipset or something. Also, check your card to make sure that it's
It is *VERY* smooth on my 486DX2/66.
I have a PCI based ATI Graphics Xpression, and 16MB RAM.
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tony eun cheun anhoorybe
Crap, I've got a shit (S3 801) vlb card and 8 megs in my 4/66 and its
smoother than doom2, though not doom1.
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Guy Dandrea
>John Wallace (csj...@perot.mtsu.edu) wrote:
>: In <D1LAF...@rci.ripco.com> mi...@ripco.com (Mike Jovanovic) writes:
>
>: > -=> Quoting G...@modru.network.com to All <=-
>: > Gu> Hmmmm, I was impressed with the 3-D movement but even at lowest
>: > Gu> graphics detail, it was a lot choppier than Doom or Heretic. I will
>: > Gu> have to try changing my sound card setting to maybe a plain SB even
>: > Gu> though I have a SB16 with a Waveblaster? My system is a 486dx2 66 VLB
>: > Gu> with a VLB graphics card. Again, Doom and Heretic run smooth as glass
>: > Gu> on my machine - Descent is just too choppy for me. I guess I was
>: > Gu> spoiled with the other two programs - had I not know how smooth they
>: > Gu> were, I would most likely not even complaining about Descent...
>
>: >You should probably look into getting a faster video card, like a wt32
>: >based chipset or something. Also, check your card to make sure that it's
>
>: It is *VERY* smooth on my 486DX2/66.
>: I have a PCI based ATI Graphics Xpression, and 16MB RAM.
>
>Crap, I've got a shit (S3 801) vlb card and 8 megs in my 4/66 and its
>smoother than doom2, though not doom1.
I posted earlier that it was a slow-down because I was using EMM386 in my
config.sys. I took it out and all is smooth and wonderful!
-Guy