Re: Descent 1 Windows XP Home

Hi everybody,

I got D1 to work with D1x, but I can not use my Sidewinder 3D Pro.
It is not possible to use the axis, if I want to define it it 
immediately turns to R2.
Any ideas how I could solve this?
And yes, I prefer playing D1 as opposed to playing D1 levels on D2.

Thanks!

Emil


Nate schrieb:
> Hello,
> 
> I am sorry if this has been asked a thousand times but I just joined
> the group.
> 
> I have just dug up and installed my OLD Descent 1 CD (MS-DOS).
> 
> It loads fine and plays (no error messages). However it is S-L-O-W.  So
> So So slow. It moves at the speed of snail. Even the demo.  Even the
> opening screens load up and exit slow and choppy. I would think I was
> running on a PC that was old and crappy in 1995.
> 
> I have Windows XP Home edition with SP2. I am running on a Dell
> Inspiron Laptop (2.0 GHz Celeron, 1 Gig RAM, 30 gig 7200 RPM Hard Drive
> Intel 82845G integrated POS graphics chipset).
> 
> The Intel Graphics chipset is called The Intel Extreme Graphics card. I
> refer to it as the UNExtreme graphics card. It sucks.
> 
> However since Descent was released about 1995 I was figuring the
> UNextreme 82845G would be MORE than fine.
> 
> In order to get the sound to work I had to install VDMSound but the
> sound works great. It does not seem to be choppy at all.
> 
> After I saw these problems I did upgrade from 1.0 to 1.4a then to 1.5.
> It did not help.
> 
> 
> Any ideas?
>