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First post, by Zyrexius

Posted on 2004-03-05, 16:24

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Hey, I just found this wonderful program yesterday and got Fantasy Empires up and running. The game goes fine, a little slow, but the problem comes during the battles. With only 1 fighter, the speed is fine, but when multiple troops start showing up on the screen, the speed goes to crap, and eventually locks up. I tried adjusting the Frameskip and CPU cycles, but the does not work. Any suggestions?
1 more thing: How do I switch to fullscreen veiw?
THX

Reply 1 of 4, by eL_PuSHeR

Posted on 2004-03-05, 16:28

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ALT-ENTER = Fullscreen mode, witty key combination, huh? 😎

Or edit the Fullscreen statement in the CONFIGURATION FILE.

Reply 2 of 4, by Guest

Posted on 2004-03-05, 17:10

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THX! Any ideas on the performance?

Reply 3 of 4, by eL_PuSHeR

Posted on 2004-03-05, 18:41

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You say in your post that you have already tried tinkering with frameskipping and cpu cycles, so the only advise i can offer you is to try running the game in a different way, that is, not using DOSBox (natively or VDMSound) or getting more powerful hardware.

Reply 4 of 4, by mirekluza

Posted on 2004-03-05, 21:40

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Switch your display to 16 bit, if you had not done it yet (32 bit is slower and 24 bit even worse).
Fullscreen is visibly quicker then windowed mode.

Mirek

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