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- From: gt7795d@acme.gatech.edu (Elizabeth B. Nguyen)
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- Subject: Re: I will NEVER buy Windows 95 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-(
- Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 05:26:09 GMT
- Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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- >>>I read a message from someone in alt.games who had the DOS & Windoze95
- >>>version of Mechwarrior2. Guess what? The DOS version ran at a decent
- >>>rate, even at 640x480, while the Windoze version was slow as hell.
- >>>Can someone explain why this new technologically advanced "OS" runs
- >>>worse than DOS?
-
- >Because large parts of the CPU are buisy keeping track of all that
- >fancy graphic interface, Kernel and all the device drivers running in
- >the background, while you're playin' the game. What's so strange about
- >it?
- >Who wants to run Windows95 just to play games from it, anyway?
-
- This is directed mainly at the previous previous post :). I was
- playing the DOS version of MW2 and decided to try out a friend's
- win95 version since it uses direct draw, just to get an idea how it
- ran. The win95 version was much smoother in 640x480 than the
- DOS version on my machine, probably because it actually uses the
- accelerator chip on my diamond stealth (even with the crappy generic
- s3 drivers I have to use for now), whereas the DOS version doesn't.
-
- To paraphrase John Carmack, I hope win 95 takes over the world,
- because it's going to be a kick-ass gaming platform if it does!
-
- liz
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