First post, by Ultrax
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This is a bit of an interesting one, posting this for a friend. I keep telling him that he should get a Vogons account!
My friend is starting to get into DOS gaming and has a Compaq Presario 425 at stock spec - 486SX-25 with 4 MB of RAM. He's been looking for more DOS games to play recently, and one of the games he wanted to try out was Jill Of The Jungle. The game apparently runs at twice the speed it should. I personally have not seen how fast it runs with my own eyes, but I'll take his word for it. We've heard of people playing Jill on Pentium machines, and he says it runs too fast on a 25 MHz SX. What gives? Apparently a lot of games are like this - they "either run too fast or like crap". DOOM doesn't even load, and we've heard of people playing the game on 386 machines of lower clock speeds. Perhaps it's his installation of DOS? Back in June of 2018 he completely formatted the hard drive and reinstalled DOS. As far as I know, it's still a fairly clean install of DOS. The only thing that I suppose might be causing this is the sound card drivers. Personally, I'm stumped. I've never seen this happen on any 486 of this variety. Any ideas?
The machine is configured as follows:
i486 SX 25 MHz
4 MB RAM
Sound Blaster 2.0
214 MB hard drive
DOS 6.22/Win3.11
Ultrax
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