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Re: [SLE] Descent 3
  • From: Jeffrey Taylor <jeff.taylor@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 10:11:14 -0500
  • Message-id: <20010418101114.D4276@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
That sounds similar to what I was seeing, except my sound was fine.
What I finally found was that D3, unlike Q3A, won't switch to 16-bit
color on its own. Try exiting X and restarting in 16-bit mode. On my
video card at least, there is no hardware acceleration in 24-bit
color.

HTH,
Jeffrey

Quoting Cleary_Mike@xxxxxxx <Cleary_Mike@xxxxxxx>:
> Anybody got this game to work properly? I can get it to
> run....sort of. The opening movie looks fine, but the sound
> stops and starts every few seconds. Also, when I get
> to the initial configure screen, the mouse pointer is
> veeeerrrrry slooooow to move. I move the mouse and sit
> and wait 15 seconds or so for the pointer to actually
> move. So that's as far as I have gotten - can't even
> configure the thing......
>
> What I'm running on:
> 7.1 professional
> "stock " 2.4 kernel
> Xfree86 4.03
> GeForce2 MX 32 MB
> NVIDIA 0.9-769 drivers
> 320MB RAM
> 500 MHz AMD K6-2
> Soundblaster Live!
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> TIA,
>
> MIke
> Cleary_Mike@xxxxxxx x6033
> Overflow on /dev/null, please empty the bit bucket.
>
>

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