'Trash Killer 2' p1ss poor gaming

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"twiddle_fingers" <snail_h@ter.com> wrote in message
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> Downloaded Kraisoft's 'Trash Killer 2' freeware a while ago and it is
> definitely worth what I paid for it.

If its Freeware you shoulden't have paid for it!

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>
> It looked promising at first, like a fairly addictive, good old shoot 'em
> up, but trouble is, it is jerky / screen image keeps freezing, there is no
> smoothness to the gaming experience.
>
> OK so I 'only' have an AMD Duron 1600 processor with 512 MB Ram and a UDMA
> 100 hard disk, but I remember playing pretty much the same game in 1990,
> on an Atari ST with a then very decent 70 Hz screen, albeit in black &
> white. The Atari had 1 MB Ram (compared to my current 512) and in terms of
> raw MIPS performance the Duron outperforms the 15 year old Atari processor
> by several hundredfold also I would have thought.
>
> I've checked my PC with Sisoft Sandra and everything works just fine, disk
> performance, memory timings etc. everything working fine as far as a low
> budget 'trailing egde' PC goes.
>
> So, why is the gaming experience so very, very sh1te ???
>
> Is it maybe down to poor programming? Needless read / writes to the hard
> disk, that sort of thing?
>
> My PC ought to be able to run the programme in Ram many times over I would
> have thought.
>
> Any ideas how to speed this Kraisoft program up to the level of 15 year
> old Atari shareware?
>

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hm.. my first post is broken...

well, i quess you need to check video driver, because on my old 750 Mhz
machine game work fine.

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