Jerky and Twichy Graphics
 

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. :confused:

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.

And the graphics cards on laptops are crap. even when compared to ones in even basic desktop machines these days. :rolleyes: :confused:

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.

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.