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Posted on 2004-02-16, 18:50

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Let me start by saying this program is really really great! 😀
I'm running the newest source on Linux Slackware 9.1 and it works great for the most part.

My problem is that if I try to run anything that requires higher than a 386 (eg: Quest for Glory 3, One must Fall 2097, Wolfenstein) it runs a little slow. So I tried the suggestion of increasing CPU cyles. That helps but the sound becomes way too distrorted and misplaced...even if I only hit CTRL+F12 once! 😒

I keep hearing about more resource eating games being run and I winder if I'm doing something wrong here? I have pentium 3 900mhz with 768 ram. Are there some things I can add to the config file to speed up a bit? Thanks.

Reply 1 of 5, by robertmo

Posted on 2004-02-16, 19:13

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sell 512ram and buy a faster CPU 😉

Reply 2 of 5, by icemann

Posted on 2004-02-16, 23:34

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Upgrading your computer to be able to play Wolfenstein 3D in 2004. Now theres a concept 😀.

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Reply 3 of 5, by MiniMax

Posted on 2004-02-17, 00:01

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Buy a used Sound Blaster of EBay, repartion your harddisk, make a 200 MB FAT32 partion, install DOS + drivers .... PLAY!

Reply 4 of 5, by voyageur

Posted on 2004-02-17, 10:22

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That's strange, I have an athlon 900MHz with 128Mo of RAM, and I can run OMF 2097 and Wolf3D on linux without any problem (frameskip 1, cycles: 5000).

Are you using some heavy window manager like recent KDE/Gnome?

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Reply 5 of 5, by Qbix

Posted on 2004-02-17, 10:32

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well I experienced that arts can sometimes be the bottleneck.
Futher a X is sometimes a pain the ass as well.

Try looking on the cpu usages when running dosbox.
if your X hits in a lot(10%>). try changing some parameters (like displaydepth)

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