NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #1/NN_1993_1.iso/spool/comp/sys/ibm/pc/games/30359

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From: [e-mail] (Bronis Vidugiris)
Subject: Re: GAMES THAT SHOULD BE COOL BUT SUCK!
Organization: Motorola, CCR&D, CORP, Schaumburg, IL
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 15:04:03 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
)> I just brought _Comanche - Maximum Overkill_ back to Egghead. Game
)> play was cool, the 256 color graphics were nice BUT the game CLUNKS
)> ALONG with a screen refresh only once a second! 'Scuze me, but on a
)> 386/25 w/8MB, THIS SUCKS! I picked up F15 Strike Eagle III thinking
)> this had to be better, but there's the same CRAPPY one frame per sec
)> animation! What gives? Can't someone design a 256 color game that's
)> worth a SHIT?!
)
)It's the system. Games in 256 VGA AND animation are generally slow on
)a 386DX/25 regardless of how many megs you have. Only solution is to
)set it on a lowest detail level. I, too, have a 386DX/25 with 8 megs
)and Comanche, UW2, etc. isn't very fluid if I have it on the highest
)detail.

I have an old 16 Mhz 386 system without cache, and Comanche is quite slow
on my system as well.  I played it on a friends system - 33mhz with cache -
and it sped up a lot - more than 2x, maybe 4x.  (Dunno if the video
card mattered or not thou).

BTW - turning off *all* sound helps a lot with speed if you have a
soundblaster - except for the fact that sound is important to the gameplay
:-(.

Anyway, looks like the requirments for game machines are going up -
like a 66 Mhz 486DX2 :-) (??).