Descent on a 486dx2 66? Faster yet?
Guy Dandrea
>dwi...@world.std.com (David E Wills) writes:
>>Ok, ok, so Decent is the next *big* game... but I'd like to know if my
>>"puny" 486/66 can run it at acceptable speeds, or at all for that
>>matter...
>>Or does this monster require that 300Mhz Digital CPU so it doesn't feel
>>like I'm playing over a 9600bps modem?
>The detail levels are fully configurable, so regardless of your computer,
>you should be able to achieve some level of immersion. I think a
>486/66 should work beautifully.
> -John
Hmmmm, I was impressed with the 3-D movement but even at lowest graphics
detail, it was a lot choppier than Doom or Heretic. I will have to try
changing my sound card setting to maybe a plain SB even though I have a SB16
with a Waveblaster? My system is a 486dx2 66 VLB with a VLB graphics card.
Again, Doom and Heretic run smooth as glass on my machine - Descent is just
too choppy for me. I guess I was spoiled with the other two programs - had
I not know how smooth they were, I would most likely not even complaining
about Descent...
-Guy
Martin G. Backe
I have a DX2-50, VLB, and this games plays as smooth as can be. No
complaints here.
Marty Backe
Clint Christofferson
have a sound card and don't know what diffence that would make, but I
did notice that the amount of memory in a machine can make a big
difference in the smoothness of the play. Our machines have 4 and 16
MB of RAM and the 4 MB machines are choppy where as the 16 MB machines
are not. Hope this helps.
Clint Christofferson
PE Services
Brigham Young University
c...@hamblin.math.byu.edu
Guy Dandrea
OK, ok, here is what I did and YES Descent became smooth as glass! I changed
NOTHING in the program configuration - I actually set everything at highest
detail, stereo sound, etc.. What I found out was that I was running EMM386
from my config.sys at boot-up. This was causing the massive slow down.
I must give proper credit here. A friend of mine who always nags at me to
remove that line from my config.sys when we are to play Doom over the modem.
He always said that Doom does NOT need EMM386 because Doom and many other
games that use that 'DOS4GW...something' has memory management built in!
So no need to use EMM386 for them, and if you do you will severely slow
down the game. This was never apparent to me until 'Descent'. Once EMM386
was removed from my config.sys, Descent ran smoothly. Even ran great over
the modem with my friend last night. Great fun!
So please those who see Descent running choppy, give this a try! Also for
good measure, clean up and remove any other TSR's in you config.sys AND
autoexec.bat. This is bound to help too. Anyway I am a happy DESECENT user
now! ;-)
-Guy