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Old 10th Jul 2001, 01:48
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I was wondering if anyone uses IFT Pro on a Laptop. I'm currently using it on an IBM thinkpad with 32mb ram and P233 processor with a Game Card Pro for the joystick. I thought this would be enough to run IFT Pro 6 smoothly however I am finding the movement very jerky and not smooth at all. Is there something I can do in the settings to improve the frame rate. I'm using the sim through windows 95 and could this be a problem or should I just run it in pure DOS mode. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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Is it a DOS program?

If so, I'd suggest running it in DOS but do everything you can to load high the bare minimum of drivers & software.

The goal is to load as much of the minimum necessary drivers into upper memory ie the memory above 1024 Kb, freeing memory from 0 to the first 640 Kb.

You'll need to use Emm386 & Highmem to do it. Don't load anything that isn't needed to run the sim.
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And the graphics cards on laptops are crap. even when compared to ones in even basic desktop machines these days.
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Thanks for the info. It is a DOS program and I tried running it in pure DOS mode but the mouse didn't work. Obviously I'll have to load it somehow. Thanks once again and i'll give it a shot.
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You'll need a DOS mouse driver then. My various DOS's used to use mouse.exe or mouse.com.

I thought Windoze has an equivalent that it loads when you start in MS-DOS mode.
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