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echo: apogee
to: JONATHAN FINGAS
from: EARL LAAMANEN
date: 1997-05-30 00:42:00
subject: Duke 3D in Win95

 Quoting Jonathan Fingas to Mike Hegarty 
 MH>  Howdy,
 MH>    I just recently started using Win95. Now I know that Apogee says
 MH>  that Duke was not designed to run under Win95, but it works (sort
 MH>  of). I am only getting between 7-10 frames/sec on my P-100. If I use
 MH>  a boot disk & run in DOS, I get in the 20's if I remember right.
 
 MH>    Does anyone have any suggestions for getting Duke to run faster
 MH>  under Win95? Just rebooting to DOS does not work because of the bug
 MH>  in OSR2 that dumps everything back into conventional memory when
 MH>  doing so. Does not leave anywhere enough memory to run Duke.
 JF> Two suggestions: 1) don't run it in Win 95 if you can (it can crash
 JF> under some circumstances), and 2) if you must play it there, have 32
 JF> MB of RAM or so.  Don't forget, Win 95 needs some "overhead" to be
 JF> able to keep itself in good condition; so it actually robs you of some
 JF> of that needed memory.  32 MB will leave you plenty of breathing
 JF> space.  I have 32 MB on both machines, and I haven't seen much of a
 JF> difference between running in Windows and DOS. 
 I have a P133 with 16 MB of RAM, and there is almost no difference
 between DOS and Win95, besides the convenience of staying in Win95.
 I haven't done a frame rate check, but it runs very smoothly.
--- Blue Wave/DOS v2.30 [NR]
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