Real Slow performance of DOS games on Winxp Pentium2 333
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Real Slow performance of DOS games on Winxp Pentium2 333
Post by tyildirim »
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
Thanks in advance
Tolga YILDIRIM
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Post by tyildirim »
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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sorry I just mixed the posts, somewhere else I wrote the cpu as p2-233 I thought I was there

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Post by tyildirim »
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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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

tyildirim
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)486 player wrote:A full Win is.
Windows as as erroneous and unstable as an OS can get, but it's definetly better than dos.
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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.Amro wrote: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)486 player wrote:A full Win is.
Windows as as erroneous and unstable as an OS can get, but it's definetly better than dos.
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Post by 486 player »
Only thing, where Win's needed, is some programs and games. DOS has excellent word writers. (Word Perfect, MS Word 1.0-5-0)
NO Windows, NO DOSBox, DOS!
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Post by bullsnot »
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.
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