QUERY: don't understand ppl got VDMS + SP2 flawless....

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kevingpo
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QUERY: don't understand ppl got VDMS + SP2 flawless....

Post by kevingpo » Mon Sep 18, 2006 8:28 am

Does anyone else experience this?

Windows XP SP1a: Blood & VDMSound perfect. No temporal lags.

Windows XP SP2: Blood & VDMSound okay. Temporal lags from time to time.

Is it just my PC? I experience this temporal lags on both my PC and laptop.

What I don't understand is how many people on this forum tell they got VDMSound & Blood working under XP2 with no lags at all. Is it System Restore, Hibernation or some other memory management? Or is it one of those SP2 hotfixes?

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Post by oBe » Mon Sep 18, 2006 12:41 pm

I never got Blood working in SP1, but that may have due to the fact it was on a NTFS drive. I'm not sure if that makes a difference at all, but it's not like switching format is an easy thing to (or even possible) so I can't find out.

It does work fine with SP2 machine on a FAT32drive with VDM. But there is a delay, most noticable in jumps and music. Not to mention them damned cutscenes. But in game it's very subtle, so I can imagine some people don't even notice it.

I reckon it would be awesome if someone would compile DosBox to emulate a 486 instead of a 286, but as soon as I see lines of code, a vein pops in my forehead...and I'm running out of veins.

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