duke - FPS

duke - FPS

[Davros]

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

Re: duke - FPS

[Davros]

Hi,

Thanks - works quite nice now ;)

I'm not too concerned about sound at the moment, but thanks.

Has anyone gotten network games going, either between two dosemu dukes
via ipx emulation, or even dosemu-duke against a win machine?  Is this
possible yet with dosemu?

There was a utility out there that was supposed to let duke play via
tcp/ip, and I don't mean Kali and friends, it was a duke hack - i've
never gotten it to work on windows, but if ipx isn't possible yet, I
wonder if duke would work via this hack using dosemu tcp/ip packet stuff
- has anyone tried anything along these lines?

Davros

On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 04:27, Bart Oldeman wrote:
> On 11 Mar 2003, Davros wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> adjust your $_hogthreshold or type
> speed 0
> (or speed 200 or another high value) at the DOS prompt before starting
> duke.
> 
> Sound only works for recent development releases (1.1.4/1.1.4.13).
> 
> Bart
> 

Re: duke - FPS

[Bart Oldeman]

On 11 Mar 2003, Davros wrote:

> 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?

adjust your $_hogthreshold or type
speed 0
(or speed 200 or another high value) at the DOS prompt before starting
duke.

Sound only works for recent development releases (1.1.4/1.1.4.13).

Bart

Re: duke - FPS

[davros]

Hi,

Excellent!

I'll upgrade and give it a try.  Any pointers, or is it pretty intuitive
to setup?

Davros

On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 12:21, Stas Sergeev wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> Davros wrote:
> > Has anyone gotten network games going, either between two dosemu dukes
> > via ipx emulation, or even dosemu-duke against a win machine?  Is this
> > possible yet with dosemu?
> Yes. However with such an old dosemu
> you are using (1.0.2 IIRC) - no.
> 
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Davros

Re: duke - FPS

[Stas Sergeev]

Hello.

Davros wrote:
> Has anyone gotten network games going, either between two dosemu dukes
> via ipx emulation, or even dosemu-duke against a win machine?  Is this
> possible yet with dosemu?
Yes. However with such an old dosemu
you are using (1.0.2 IIRC) - no.