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- From: gac2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Geoffrey A. Coulter)
- Subject: Re: Civilization
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.052850.22979@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Keywords: Games
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- Organization: University of Chicago
- References: <kwhelan.51@neptune.uark.edu> <1993Jan27.005429.7225@wam.umd.edu>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 05:28:50 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan27.005429.7225@wam.umd.edu> wizzard@wam.umd.edu (The Wizzard) writes:
- >In article <kwhelan.51@neptune.uark.edu> kwhelan@neptune.uark.edu (Kenneth Whelan) writes:
- >>
- >>Has anyone gotten Civilization to run at full speed under OS/2. Seems that
- >>it doesn't like the way the graphics are running and it slows down to a
- >>crawl when run in a VDM. I also tried in a Dos 5.0 session and then I get
- >>some sort of fatal error.
- >
- >I got rid of my speed problem by using IBM sounds instead of SoundBlaster
- >[AdLib??] sounds. There has got to be a better solution than this.
- >
- >I have an additional question for running Civilization:
- >When I run it under a full screen dos session, my pallette gets screwed up:
- >
- >This occurs when I run CIV in VGA mode and then one of the cities builds
- >something, and I am sent back to the main map. All shades of green turn to
- >a single shade of pink, and other colors change sothat the whole color
- >scheme looks awful.
- >
- >If it matters: I have a Diamond SpeedSTAR 24X video card.
- >
- >Any comments on either the original question or my question would be greatly
- >appreciated.
- >
- >Signed,
- > The Wizzard
- > (who is still trying to learn all of OS/2's features)
- >
-
- In some README.TXT somewhere, I came across something saying the
- Video_Retrace and HW_Timer should both be off. Between then, it
- became possible for me to play; however, my problems seem to have been
- very different from yours before making those changes. After the
- start-up, I just got a blank screen, and all further activity ceased,
- but now, everything is normal. THis is using IBM sound and the
- VGAWonder component of an ATI Graphics Vantage.
-
- Good luck,
-
- Geoffrey Coulter
- gac2@ellis.uchicago.edu
-
-