inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 4 days agoFormer MS engineer Dave Plummer admits he accidentally coded Pinball to run 'at like, 5,000 frames per second' on Windows NTwww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up192arrow-down11cross-posted to: nottheonion@lemmy.world
arrow-up191arrow-down1external-linkFormer MS engineer Dave Plummer admits he accidentally coded Pinball to run 'at like, 5,000 frames per second' on Windows NTwww.pcgamer.cominclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square4fedilinkcross-posted to: nottheonion@lemmy.world
minus-squarefulg@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·3 days agoThis is kind of misleading though. It was common at the time for games to run as fast as possible and then break as CPUs got faster. One famous example is Wing Commander which is unplayable on a Pentium-class machine because it runs too fast. This is also why DOSBox has a speed setting and a keyboard shortcut to adjust it at runtime.
minus-squareReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoFantasy Empires was the one for me. Regular game played fine, but 5 minute battles that I could play at realtime on a 486DX-66 were over in 1/10th of a second on a PC 10 years later.
minus-squareILikeBoobies@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·2 days agoA bunch of games have framerates locked now to prevent these issues https://youtube.com/watch?v=7PpTiK1jYPw Fps differences in cod 4
This is kind of misleading though. It was common at the time for games to run as fast as possible and then break as CPUs got faster.
One famous example is Wing Commander which is unplayable on a Pentium-class machine because it runs too fast.
This is also why DOSBox has a speed setting and a keyboard shortcut to adjust it at runtime.
Fantasy Empires was the one for me. Regular game played fine, but 5 minute battles that I could play at realtime on a 486DX-66 were over in 1/10th of a second on a PC 10 years later.
A bunch of games have framerates locked now to prevent these issues
https://youtube.com/watch?v=7PpTiK1jYPw
Fps differences in cod 4