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Duke3d Some areas laggy 2.2Ghz 6800GT 512Ram

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First post, by syndicator

Posted on 2016-10-27, 10:53

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I did a clean install of windows 98 plus the drivers No extra service packs..The video card is 6800GT and the sound card is a MX300 aureal 2. The game plays fine for the most part but once i go to some areas like the bathroom in the first level the frames drop to 20 or so..I got the screen at 800x600 and Music set to General midi and sound FX set to soundblaster. I got no sound fonts loaded. Even in Pure dos with the Ms dos legacy sound drivers its still laggy. Any help would be appreciated

Reply 1 of 6, by mrau

Posted on 2016-10-27, 10:59

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but its the original version? iirc there is a mirror that would then be calculated in software - hence more load..

Reply 2 of 6, by syndicator

Posted on 2016-10-27, 11:07

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yeah its the original dos version. So is that just normal behavior..? and yes when i get the the mirror the fps really drop

Reply 3 of 6, by leileilol

Posted on 2016-10-27, 18:26

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the mirror shouldn't be the problem as Build renders it like an extra room with extra sprites and there's similar "portals" all over the game that provide connectivity within levels. If there's anything that should give Duke3D a performance dip on that hardware, it's any translucency effect in a high resolution mode at a close up, as that may require expensive reads from video memory to write blended pixels.

Also i'm not certain if a Geforce6600 has any VESA 2.0 VBE extensions because that could also play a part for performance, and since that's way out of the timeline of Scitech's software, UniVBE/SDD can't help you there.

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Reply 4 of 6, by syndicator

Posted on 2016-10-27, 23:04

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I really hope i dont have hardware issues

Reply 5 of 6, by SRQ

Posted on 2016-11-09, 06:42

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I doubt it. Your computer probably just long since abandoned the standards that allow Duke3D to run quickly.

Reply 6 of 6, by Stretch

Posted on 2016-11-09, 13:16

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Use Fastvid under MS-DOS which will speed up your video performance. Fastvid makes the computer in my signature run Duke3d much better.

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