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| Hello,
I am sorry if this has been asked a thousand times but I just joined
the group.
I have just dug up and installed my OLD Descent 1 CD (MS-DOS).
It loads fine and plays (no error messages). However it is S-L-O-W. So
So So slow. It moves at the speed of snail. Even the demo. Even the
opening screens load up and exit slow and choppy. I would think I was
running on a PC that was old and crappy in 1995.
I have Windows XP Home edition with SP2. I am running on a Dell
Inspiron Laptop (2.0 GHz Celeron, 1 Gig RAM, 30 gig 7200 RPM Hard Drive
Intel 82845G integrated POS graphics chipset).
The Intel Graphics chipset is called The Intel Extreme Graphics card. I
refer to it as the UNExtreme graphics card. It sucks.
However since Descent was released about 1995 I was figuring the
UNextreme 82845G would be MORE than fine.
In order to get the sound to work I had to install VDMSound but the
sound works great. It does not seem to be choppy at all.
After I saw these problems I did upgrade from 1.0 to 1.4a then to 1.5.
It did not help.
Any ideas?
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| Get D1X.
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Moon's Descendarium - THE single-player guide to D1-D3
Maintainer of The 'Official' D3 FAQ
Both coming again soon to a domain near you!
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| Wesley 2006-02-25, 10:27 pm |
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"Moon" <Moon@Uni-Duisburg.de> wrote in message
news:py725m5vpmby.6ljjpics5zrk.dlg@40tude.net...
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> Get D1X.
> --
> Moon's Descendarium - THE single-player guide to D1-D3
> Maintainer of The 'Official' D3 FAQ
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> Both coming again soon to a domain near you!
D1X stop build in 1999 ? old ? any update ?
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| Wesley 2006-02-25, 10:27 pm |
| D1X - Last update on d1x143_oglmw-20041112-1.zip 12-Nov-2004 01
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| Be sure to mention that the framerate limiter in D1X should be set to 35fps
to solve the slowdown issue.
rms
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| karx11erx 2006-02-25, 10:27 pm |
| I am pretty sure playing Descent 1 missions D2X-XL will be at least as
much fun as with D1X, given that it is much stabler and more advanced.
And the differences in gameplay shouldn't be to noteable, after all the
Descent 1 related improvements D2X-XL has received recently.
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| karx11erx schrieb:
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> I am pretty sure playing Descent 1 missions D2X-XL will be at least as
> much fun as with D1X, given that it is much stabler and more advanced.
> And the differences in gameplay shouldn't be to noteable, after all the
> Descent 1 related improvements D2X-XL has received recently.
Well, I guess D1X development stopped for a reason: it's pretty much
stable. I haven't had any problems with it so far.
--
Moon's Descendarium - THE single-player guide to D1-D3
Maintainer of The 'Official' D3 FAQ
Both coming again soon to a domain near you!
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| Emil Gruenbaer 2006-03-04, 7:34 pm |
| Hi everybody,
I got D1 to work with D1x, but I can not use my Sidewinder 3D Pro.
It is not possible to use the axis, if I want to define it it
immediately turns to R2.
Any ideas how I could solve this?
And yes, I prefer playing D1 as opposed to playing D1 levels on D2.
Thanks!
Emil
Nate schrieb:
quote:
> Hello,
>
> I am sorry if this has been asked a thousand times but I just joined
> the group.
>
> I have just dug up and installed my OLD Descent 1 CD (MS-DOS).
>
> It loads fine and plays (no error messages). However it is S-L-O-W. So
> So So slow. It moves at the speed of snail. Even the demo. Even the
> opening screens load up and exit slow and choppy. I would think I was
> running on a PC that was old and crappy in 1995.
>
> I have Windows XP Home edition with SP2. I am running on a Dell
> Inspiron Laptop (2.0 GHz Celeron, 1 Gig RAM, 30 gig 7200 RPM Hard Drive
> Intel 82845G integrated POS graphics chipset).
>
> The Intel Graphics chipset is called The Intel Extreme Graphics card. I
> refer to it as the UNExtreme graphics card. It sucks.
>
> However since Descent was released about 1995 I was figuring the
> UNextreme 82845G would be MORE than fine.
>
> In order to get the sound to work I had to install VDMSound but the
> sound works great. It does not seem to be choppy at all.
>
> After I saw these problems I did upgrade from 1.0 to 1.4a then to 1.5.
> It did not help.
>
>
> Any ideas?
>
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