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Article #16358Re: Wing Commander I & II w/ OS/2 2.0
From: Nishith A. Patel
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 02:17
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 02:17
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I have a couple of DOS games that could use a speed adjustment. the games are Stellar 7 (Dynamix/Sierra) and Arkanoid (Taito, I think). With Stellar 7, the game actually ran faster under OS/2 than DOS, but it flickered, and was hard to control, so it wasn;t too playable. Then I both tunred off the simulated video refresh (or whatever it is called) and went from default video to 800x600x16 via Joel's generic driver. One of them brought the game back to normal operation, with the flickering gone and the mouse and joystick able to be controled properly. But then the game ran slower, noticeably slower than DOS runs it. Is there a way to speed it up? I turned off EMS, put XMS, EMS, and DPMI memory to 0, turned on ROM to RAM, and set idle sensitivity to 100. the Video ROM emulation setting didn't make a diffeither way. With Arkanoid, the game is just off timing. It blinks wildly, and the game is unplyable. Does anyone else use these games, did you get them working right if so? I just started fine tuning my DOS apps, so I might get them fixed later, I don't know. But I couldn't think of anything for these two yet.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!nap42487 From: nap42487@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Nishith A. Patel) Subject: Re: Wing Commander I & II w/ OS/2 2.0 References: <92366.034239CXKPE@ASUACAD.BITNET> <1993Jan4.225747.3154@pacdata.uucp> <1993Jan9.224812.16744@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> <726671438.1107.0@ccon.ucc.andrew.cmu.edu> Message-ID: <C0o3p2.Crs@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Distribution: comp Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 02:17:25 GMT Lines: 19