duke - FPS

[Davros <tashuu@newsguy.com>]

Hi all,

Once I got past the initial trials of getting dosemu running,  I had no
problem at all getting duke nukem 3d running in an xwindow - the intro,
with the atomic sign that glows from behind and so forth runs nice and
fast, as does the setup program beforehand - the game itself though,
runs at, maybe, 3 fps - far too slow to play!  All in game speed-ups
like shrinking screen size, turning off shadows and lowering detail all
have really not much affect at seeding it up.

I have an older machine, 400mhz p2, but I keep reading stuff, at
linuxgametome and others, that people have been playing "duke nukem in
linux for YEARS".

Can anyone relate their experience insofar as their hardware and playing
duke at a comfortable speed??  Someone gloated that they were able to
play duke at full speed on a pentium pro 200 in linux!

I'm running without sound/music, so I can't imagine that would be a
speed issue. 

i have the default dosemu.conf from last stable release, except the dmpi
setting suggested for duke...

Advice?

Davros