Sender: Christian Tamasiu <tamasiu AT informatik DOT tu-muenchen DOT de>
From: tamasiu AT informatik DOT tu-muenchen DOT de (Christian Tamasiu)
Subject: Re: Some Allegro and other questions.
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <is+LMUA87y8yEwXp@talula.demon.co.uk>
Message-Id: <97Feb13.140828+0100_mez.395682-215+2144@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
Date: 	Thu, 13 Feb 1997 14:08:22 +0100


|> >2. Whenever I use a allegro program in a WIN95 dosbox, the mouse movement
|> >   gets incredibly slow. How can this be fixed?
|> 
|> This problem has been reported from time to time, but I've never been
|> able to reproduce it on any machines I have access to, so I really don't
|> know what to suggest. My best guess is that you are suffering either
|> from missing interrupts (but why? do keystrokes ever get ignored as
|> well?) or from a mouse driver that ignores my request to increase the
|> mouse range and speed by a factor of eight (this is needed to get down-
|> to-the-pixel accuracy in SVGA modes).
|> 
|> What kind of mouse do you have? (bring up the device manager dialog, and
|> have a look at the properties for your mouse device).
|> 
|> Please let me know how you get on, and if anyone else has any ideas
|> about what could be causing this, I would really like to hear them!
|> 
I finally solved this problem. I used to logitech mouse driver and switching to
the MS mouse driver (both included in win95) the problem dissappeared. However I
used that mouse driver for several months and never experianced such problems
except with Allegro.
Chris.