: Yeah, that is really strange. Why would that be?
No clue.
: Also, I noticed something else rather odd recently, when I convinced a friend
: who'd never played Marathon of any sort to try Eternal (Alpha 4) on his
: Windows PC. I have no idea what his specs are but he plays fairly recent
: games on it so it can't be that bad. Anyway, the weirdness was that it
: seemed to lag for a very very long time at each load screen (like 5x
: longer than usual), but that's not the really odd bit: the music continued
: without stutter and yet without progression during that lag. That is, it
: seemed as though the guy playing the piano in the title track was just
: holding down the last key he had pressed; the sound continued, smoothly
: and continuously, but just on that one note. I've never heard anything
: like it in my life, for any kind of audio playback - usually it either
: plays smoothly, or stops or skips. Any idea what might be behind that?
Sounds like it's specific to his machine. Maybe DMA is disabled? Dunno...
