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- From: cliff@astro.ucla.edu (cliff UCLA Astronomy)
- Subject: GUS on an OPTi 486 motherboard and StarCon II
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.083255.3849@mic.ucla.edu>
- Keywords: GUS OPTi StarControl II
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- Sender: cliff@eggneb.astro.ucla.edu (cliff UCLA Astronomy)
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- Date: 18 Dec 92 08:32:54 PST
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- Well, I finally got around to replacing my 486 motherboard that has an OPTi
- chipset ( 486-WB motherboard with OPTi chips 82C392 82C493 F82C206 ) with
- a new EISA motherboard that has a SIS chipset. My old motherboard worked
- fine with playmidi and the media player in windows but failed when I ran
- StarControl II. In StarControl II, I would get a load scratchy-whinning
- noise when I changed to different items in a menu and eventually the game
- would slow to a crawl and lock up my computer. Well, last night after swap-
- ping the motherboards, I noticed that I get the same whinning noise less
- frequently when I'm switching to different items in the menu but now I can
- play with absolutely no system slow downs or lock ups.... I should also
- state that my GUS has 1 Meg of memory on it and I've noticed postings from
- others that this could cause problems with StarControl II. Hopefully, Accolade
- will post a patch to fix this. I've also noticed that the game will sometimes
- play incorrect patches like battle sounds when I'm out crusing by myself.
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- cliff
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- cliff@trifid.astro.ucla.edu
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