Uplink runs horribly slow

I have a beige G3 running at 300 mhz, with 256 ram and gigs of hd OS 9.1. This fills the requirements. I have openGL 1.2, CarbonLib 1.6, and DrawSproket 1.7.5. Its a rev1 so its got ATI RAGE 3D II+ with 2 megs video ram.

But it runs like complete junk. Takes many seconds to notice a click, wont even notice clicks often, its unplayable. Does it really need a computer thats much better then it says or do I need something else?

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Originally posted by Rick_Hardslab:
do I need something else?

Right now, to get the game to run smoothly, you have to get yourself a much better graphics card. Lots of people have and are complaining about this, and hopefully it's on top of the things-to-fix list.

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The game also runs a lot faster when you upgrade your gateway and buy more CPU's.
You also have to hold down the mouse for a few seconds, for each server on the map.
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(This message has been edited by suydam (edited 07-11-2003).)

Uplink is very OpenGL intensive and the quality of that depends on your video ram/graphical card.

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Originally posted by suydam:
The game also runs a lot faster when you upgrade your gateway and buy more CPU's.
You also have to hold down the mouse for a few seconds, for each server on the map.

Eh?? I don't think this has any bearing on anything... Ingame tasks, like password breaking, are faster, but it doesn't affect the speed of the game.

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Well, it certainly effects the speed of my game i.e. "noticing clicks".

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