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.
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