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From: Alexander DOT Dietrich AT hamburg DOT netsurf DOT de (Alexander Dietrich)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: QUAKE and DJGPP
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 21:50:29 GMT
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elf AT netcom DOT com (Marc Singer) wrote:

>> 
>> On 26 Apr 1996 15:05:43 GMT, Nathan Kopp shared with us these insightful words:
>> 
>> : I downloaded the QUAKE test demo about a month ago.  It ran painfully 
>> : slow on my P75, even in 320x200 mode.  Is this slowness the fault of 
>> : DJGPP (Descent II using DOS4GW runs much faster) or is it ineffecient 
>> : programming on the part of ID software.  Maybe they've got an optimized 
>> : version available now that runs faster (sounds that way...if somebody's 
>> : running it on a 486).  Comments anyone?
>> 
>> It may be your system configuration. I have seen the quake test run well
>> ( greater than 20 fps in 320x200 ) on P-66's, and I get 37 fps on my
>> P90.  Try booting clean - you may have a driver that is conflicting or
>> at least slowing it down.

>Could be slow video hardware.  I'd have to say that the programming
>skills of ID are, at present, impeccable.

Or read the documentation. This is a _test_ version,
it is not optimized and the target system is a fast
Pentium with 16 MB Ram.

Alexander
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