Real Slow performance of DOS games on Winxp Pentium2 333

tyildirim · Post by **tyildirim** » Thu Feb 27, 2003 1:20 pm

Altough many people's complaint about dos games can be about high speed mine is about slow speed. on my p2-333 laptop (Alien breed TA, lotus3 etc) working reeeeal slow and I mean slow (think it as a 386) I am using compatibility wizard and manual editing of exe properties but anyway I can't make them work on their normal speed? any comments? help!! Also if I use a dos boot disk and use the games some of them gives fatal dos4gw errors (they work on xp) any suggestions?

Thanks in advance
Tolga YILDIRIM

Unknown_K · Post by **Unknown_K** » Thu Feb 27, 2003 8:02 pm

Windows XP on a p2-333 laptop..thats pushing it

Anyway, what video and sound chipset does the laptop use? How much memory?

tyildirim · Post by **tyildirim** » Fri Feb 28, 2003 3:21 am

Hi...

it's p2-333 (sorry not 233) 2mb Neomagic videocard 160mb 100mhz cl2 ram 4gb hd bla bla..

can the p2 be a problem?

tyildirim · Post by **tyildirim** » Fri Feb 28, 2003 3:25 am

and also a ESS sound card. by using a dos disk I can use lotus3 very good (without sound of course) in windows using vdmsound and launcher, the sounds are slow mismatched the game is unplayable slow. this happens if I don't use vdmsound either

sorry I just mixed the posts, somewhere else I wrote the cpu as p2-233 I thought I was there

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Kazer0 · Post by **Kazer0** » Fri Feb 28, 2003 1:18 pm

you are way under the minimum requirements of win xp. It needs at minimum a 500 mhz pIII. Its your own fault its slow for having win xp on there (unless it came like that or you have no other window versions).

Amro · Post by **Amro** » Fri Feb 28, 2003 6:16 pm

no offense, but WinXP on a p2 is a dumb idea.

Post by **Dogbreath** » Fri Feb 28, 2003 9:46 pm

WinXP in itself is a bad idea...

486 player · Post by **486 player** » Sat Mar 01, 2003 10:52 am

A full Win is.

tyildirim · Post by **tyildirim** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 10:23 am

oh, I didn't even think that someday I will cover the MS ass but!!!!!!!!

XP can be installed even on 486 (yeees I did it for just plain fun) no,p3-500 is not required. if you close all bells and whistless and use classical interface there wouldn't be preformance delta in processor speeed, onlything bad is it reaaly needs 128 mb to show its potential and once again you're wrong on my athlon xp1800+ the performance is same!!

oh, just forgat...
thanks for the very valuable info

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Amro · Post by **Amro** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 2:13 pm

486 player wrote:A full Win is.

Sorry, my friend. Windows is waaaaaaay more flexible than DOS. DOS isn't even getting any farther. I've seen someone create their own 'dos' using VB (In case you don't know, a windows app)

Windows as as erroneous and unstable as an OS can get, but it's definetly better than dos.

Unknown_K · Post by **Unknown_K** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 2:16 pm

Amro wrote:
486 player wrote:A full Win is.
Sorry, my friend. Windows is waaaaaaay more flexible than DOS. DOS isn't even getting any farther. I've seen someone create their own 'dos' using VB (In case you don't know, a windows app)

Windows as as erroneous and unstable as an OS can get, but it's definetly better than dos.

It all depends what your doing with the OS, I have seen people still use DOS for embedded controls where its stability and small footprint works out great. To be honest a new dos that allows use of gigs of memory and disk space would be usefull.

Kazer0 · Post by **Kazer0** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 6:12 pm

Im going to be working on my own windows based OS as soon as I have the programming down.

486 player · Post by **486 player** » Sat Mar 08, 2003 7:26 am

Only thing, where Win's needed, is some programs and games. DOS has excellent word writers. (Word Perfect, MS Word 1.0-5-0)

jmke · Post by **jmke** » Sat Aug 21, 2004 7:11 pm

no offence buddies but I installed Windows XP on a P1 200MMX with 80Mb ram , and although booting up took some time, once in windows it went fairly smooth. I loaded up some old DOS games and played them without hassle.

I think the problem here is rather software related, being the game itself.. :-/

Post by **Wally** » Sat Aug 21, 2004 10:32 pm

wow LOL a year old post revived....

bullsnot · Post by **bullsnot** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 9:55 pm

Sorry to revive a way dead comment, but win xp actualy works way better than 98 on older machines. Im using xp on my 333 laptop right now and have been for a year. I also have a 233 with a whopping 8 meg of ram, upgrading it from 98 to xp was a big improvement. I set it up at the mother in laws house for all the grandkids to play old dos games and sega emulator games on.

Unknown_K · Post by **Unknown_K** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 6:34 am

Windows Xp on 8mb of ram huh... I smell a troll

Ro@m · Post by **Ro@m** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 12:35 am

thats a spoiler,lol,Xp,that can't be on 8 megs