- In KingOfDragonPass_at_yahoogroups.com, "perkele000"
<antti.heiskanen_at_n...> wrote:
> Hello (again:),
>
> To speed up the game I followed the instructions found at
> http://www.cyberus.ca/~hollebon/KoDPfaq.html#q9.5
> "9.5: The CD is slow. How can I speed up the game?
> For Windows 95/98 systems: (Disk space needed: approx. 480MB)
>
> 1. Do a full install of the game.
> 2. Install any updates.
> 3. Move the Opal and mt directories to the root of the drive you
> installed the game on.
> 4. Move KODP4922.mxx and KODP4923.mxx from the root directory of
> the CD to the root of the hard drive.
> 5. Rename the hard drive to KoDP (using that capilization).
Under
> Win95/98, open the Drive Properties and change the Volume Label.
> 6. Start the game either from the Start menu or the desktop icon
> (i.e. not from the CD autostart screen).
> 7. You need the KoDP CD in the drive to start the game, but all
the
> scenes will load from the hard drive rather than the CD."
>
> Now what got me worried is that I noticed that in the Game controls
> screen it reads "v1.0 (492)" instead of v1.7 I have installed. So I
> wonder if that is just an esthetic effect of the advice quoted
above
> or I'm actually using version 1.0 with all it's bugs. It's
especially
> worrying because the current game has been been played like this
maybe
> for a decade including the tribe making process. So anyone out
there
> who has used the same trick to speed up the game and could tell if
it
> worked fine to end of becaming the KoDP? I recall version 1.0
having
> trouble with that...
>
> -antti //cursing if he has ruined his and his gf's current game...
Start the game using the icon from windows desktop, dont let it
start from cd-autoplay or if you dont have the icon on desktop,
click start and find the executable icon or directly go to windows
explorer and find where u install kodp and click on the exe file,
good luck..