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Slow SLow VESA support

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First post, by Omniverse

Posted on 2004-05-31, 15:20

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After much fiddling, I've finally gotten everything tweaked where System Shock is running perfectly in Win2k SP4. Except for one problem...

Basically, if I turn of VESA support, the game runs great, sound and all, but of course I'm stuck using the 320x200 resolution, which looks pretty bad. But if I enable VESA support, the game runs very slow and choppy. It runs, it doesn't crash, and I can make the resolution higher, but its unplayably slow.

The funny thing is, my video card is an ATI Radeon 9800, which HAS VESA support. If I reboot into FreeDOS I can use VESA video modes and stuff without using using UNIVBE or anything similar. Why would it be so slow to use VESA in VDMSound?

Reply 1 of 7, by Qbix

Posted on 2004-05-31, 15:36

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boot into freedos and vdmsound doesn't mix.

vdmsound is a windows application as far as know.

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Reply 2 of 7, by Guest

Posted on 2004-05-31, 15:44

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Well at this point, I can boot into FreeDOS and get perfect fast VESA support and no sound at all, or I can stay in Win2k and get perfect sound and incredibly slow VESA support.

I did manage to find some DOS drivers for my SB Audigy, and I remember using them in FreeDOS before, but if I try to use them now they complain about a lack of emm386 running (even though freedos's emm386 loads and functions fine when I boot).

Reply 3 of 7, by robertmo

Posted on 2004-05-31, 15:47

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don't enable vesa support in vdmsound. Just press alt+enter after the game starts

Reply 4 of 7, by Omniverse

Posted on 2004-05-31, 15:58

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If I don't enable VESA support, I have to play the game at 320x200. I need VESA support to play at 640x480.

All ALT-ENTER does is switch the game between full screen mode and windowed mode. I have no problem getting the game to run full screen either way.

Reply 5 of 7, by robertmo

Posted on 2004-05-31, 16:10

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All vesa support in vdmsound does is switch the game to full screen mode but it also makes the game slow. Using alt+enter doesn't slow the game down.

Reply 6 of 7, by Omniverse

Posted on 2004-06-02, 19:45

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If that were the case, then the options to switch the game to 640x400 and 640x480 would not be greyed out whenever I had VESA emulation disabled. Without VESA checked, the game will not have support for VESA video modes, even if you press ALT-ENTER to run full screen.

Reply 7 of 7, by robertmo

Posted on 2004-06-03, 07:06

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so make a .bat file:

pause
game

after pause hit alt+enter

or type:
pause

in autoexec section of vdmsound's properities

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