Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/02/18/18:20:27
Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel wrote:
> > > sloowwwwwww. Please see how slow vga games like doom are windowed.
> > It isn't because they run slower (even though they do), it is because windows
> > doesn't update the window often enough. One way to force the window to refresh
> > faster is to hold down the control key (or some other key that doesn't impact on
> > the program you are running). I can run VGA programs very smooth if I hold down
> > that key...
> I coudn't check up on this Rolf, but you only have ten fingures ;-) So
> playing a game like doom while continously holding down the CTRL key would
> be quite troublesome IMHO. Imagine the strain on the poor fingure that is
> holding down the CTRL key continously ;-)
And to make matters worse, this only works when the key is sending interrupts. So
as soon as you press other keys, you have to let go of Ctrl and press it again. I
never claimed it was a decent solution, I was just illustrating that it's not the game
running slower, it's the display refreshing less frequently.
> > That's not the fault of the OS, it is the drivers for the video card. I've
> > seen some drivers that could handle 640x480x32 windowed on a display running at
> > 1024x768x256! The color quantization was poor, but acceptable considering what
> > it was doing...
> Are you sure that this game was a DOS game and not a directX game which
> was running windowed?
I am 100% positive. The normal DOS toolbar was there and Alt+Enter flicked to
full-screen. And the program did run in real DOS.
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(\/) Rolf Campbell (\/)
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