| 05-01-2008 05:31 PM | |
| Eagle of Fire | It really change absolutly nothing to the problem though... It only reduce the options to fix the problem. |
| 05-01-2008 04:28 PM | |
| DeathDude | Yeah I'm pretty sure as well you must be thinking of SC 2000, 3000 was never a dos game. |
| 05-01-2008 02:12 PM | |
| Eagle of Fire | You may be right about that. SC2000 and SC3000 are so similar, especially in screenshots... |
| 05-01-2008 01:52 PM | |
| Tulac | Sim City 3000 was never a DOS game, you're probably thinking of Sim City 2000. |
| 05-01-2008 01:45 PM | |
| Eagle of Fire |
Fine. Play the game slow then 'cause I have no idea other than what already been suggested what the problem might be. And I remember playing SC3000 in DOS. If it is a Win98 version, chances that the game didn't really been created for Windows but it's only a port. Just like the first Win98 version of C&C. That open a huge door on possible mem issues with XP... |
| 05-01-2008 11:48 AM | |
| Tulac | Dude SC3000 is a Windows 98 game, it doesn't work at all in DOS. As I said ten times already I ran SC 3000 on a p1 133mhz with 48MB RAM. SC 3000 was made in 1999 so my system resources certainly aren't an issue. |
| 05-01-2008 11:43 AM | |
| _r.u.s.s. |
well, xp by itself eats a lot of memory of course, but with cleverly disabled bullshit, it can run on lower rams as well. and don't tell me that nowdays 7200rpm HDDs can't handle simcity 3000 one thing i don't understand is that why would dosbox have memory issues. it's about the same as pure xp. the emulation is on processor level, not that it encrypted data on your hard disc or something |
| 05-01-2008 11:32 AM | |
| Eagle of Fire |
Just as 5th explained, if you have so little memory on XP then your system must make an intensive use of the pagefile. Which mean that the speed of your memory on your PC is greatly reduced by and to the speed of your HD. Playing the game on a genuine DOS machine will prevent that, since 256 megs was a lot of memory back in the days. This is probably why you didn't have problems running SC3000 back then. Because XP emulate DOS instead of being able to reboot in MSDOS mode like Win98, you'll always have XP memory issues. Hell... I'd never run XP with so little memory myself... Must be slow as hell when you try to multitask... I hope you have a big fast HD and that your pagefile is set to an insane number at the very least... At least 7200 rpm... |
| 05-01-2008 11:25 AM | |
| Tulac |
I guess people are so used on their ultra super duper computers, really sad for an abandonware site. That's about the last place I'd expect such behaviour. Anyway nothing changes when I change the resolution, sound and other effects. |
| 04-01-2008 08:15 PM | |
| _r.u.s.s. | what's so unbelievable about it o_O |
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