Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!a752
From: a752@mindlink.UUCP (Bruce Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: MS FlgtSim and Win3
Message-ID: <3792@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 11 Nov 90 18:03:23 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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> bradley.grigor@canremote.uucp writes:
> 
> a752@mindlink.UUCP (Bruce Dunn) writes:
> 
> aP>I am finding that Microsoft Flight Simulator seems to be fundamentally
> aP>incompatible with Windows 3.0.  Can anyone shed light on the
> aP>following two problems:
> 
> You're right!  Flight Simulator -IS- fundamentally incompatible
> with Windows 3.0 and I believe you'll find a statement to that
> effect in your Windows README file.
> 


     As the original complainant, I feel an update is in order.  Several people
have pointed out a warning in the Windows readme.txt file about Flight
Simulator.  However, the warning does not say that you cannot run the Flight
Simulator from Windows 3, but merely that you cannot run it as a background
task.  It also warns you against switching away from the Flight Simulator (as
opposed to terminating it) when running in real or standard modes.
     My original complaint was that Flight Simulator was extremely slow in 386
enhanced mode (screen updates every 10 seconds, instead of several per second).
I have just discovered that Flight Simulator seems to run fine in standard
mode, with no obvious degradation of performance over running without Windows.
I had not previously tried this because until a day or so ago, a typing error I
made in modifying one of the ini files had prevented me from running DOS
programs in standard and real modes.
    I have also found that standard mode offers noticibly faster scrolling and
other operations in Winword than does the 386 enhanced mode.  The 386 enhanced
mode has some definite advantages, but it seem that these come at the price of
a noticible speed difference for some (although certainly not all)
applications.
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Bruce Dunn   Vancouver, Canada    a752@mindlink.UUCP