Subj : Re: About To Blow A Gaske
To   : TRACKER1
From : ROB MCCART
Date : Sun Jul 31 2005 06:44 pm

RM>> I primarily run Win 98 because of reports that Doom won't
  >> work well (crawls) in Win XP Dos type mode due to a lack
  >> of resources.

TR>XP-DOS is an emulated environment, and doesn't perform well at all, you
  >might actually have decent luck with DOSBOX under XP for what you are wanting
  >to do.. I'm using a p4 in HT mode (if you dissable HT for when you run dosbox
  >should perform well enough) ... it doesn't quite run duke nukem 3d well
  >enough, but doom/doom2 should run fine under it.. and should give you access
  >to the modem afaik.. will have to check on your dosbox.conf settings to see i
  >you can set your real modem to the com1/com2 in dosbox.

Newer WAD files for Doom 2 require a lot more 'machine' than
Dune Nukem 3D ever did. I have both games here and I have ground
a (Win 98) Pentium II 300 with 384 meg of ram and a 64 meg video
card almost to a halt running some Doom 2 WADs but I never had a
problem with Duke 3D even on slower machines with less ram..

To be honest, I always found Duke 3D to run more smoothly with
fewer catch-up pauses than Doom2. Probably just a better designed
game engine, or at least designed to need to exchange less info
via modem to keep up.

Now, Quake II was a modem pig..    B)

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