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In article <1993Jan27.005429.7225@wam.umd.edu> wizzard@wam.umd.edu (The Wizzard) writes:
>In article <kwhelan.51@neptune.uark.edu> kwhelan@neptune.uark.edu (Kenneth Whelan) writes:
>>
>>Has anyone gotten Civilization to run at full speed under OS/2.   Seems that 
>>it doesn't like the way the graphics are running and it slows down to a 
>>crawl when run in a VDM.   I also tried in a Dos 5.0 session and then I get 
>>some sort of fatal error. 
>
>I got rid of my speed problem by using IBM sounds instead of SoundBlaster
>[AdLib??] sounds.  There has got to be a better solution than this.
>
>I have an additional question for running Civilization:
>When I run it under a full screen dos session, my pallette gets screwed up:
>
>This occurs when I run CIV in VGA mode and then one of the cities builds
>something, and I am sent back to the main map.  All shades of green turn to 
>a single shade of pink, and other colors change sothat the whole color
>scheme looks awful.
>
>If it matters: I have a Diamond SpeedSTAR 24X video card.
>
>Any comments on either the original question or my question would be greatly
>appreciated.
>
>Signed,
>  The Wizzard
>  (who is still trying to learn all of OS/2's features)
>

In some README.TXT somewhere, I came across something saying the
Video_Retrace and HW_Timer should both be off.  Between then, it
became possible for me to play; however, my problems seem to have been
very different from yours before making those changes.  After the
start-up, I just got a blank screen, and all further activity ceased,
but now, everything is normal.  THis is using IBM sound and the
VGAWonder component of an ATI Graphics Vantage.

Good luck,

Geoffrey Coulter
gac2@ellis.uchicago.edu