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Old 25 March 2023, 06:12   #41
Bruce Abbott
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Originally Posted by desiv View Post
Based on the youtube vids posted in this thread of Doom playing on 486 class machines, I think that is more of that rose colored glasses specs. (I'm guilty of that myself. More than a few times I go back to see a game I loved and it runs slower than I remember.)

A 486DX33 with a fast VLB card would be around 15/16 FPS... and an SX25 slower still...
Perhaps you are right. I only remember that it was much smoother on the 486SX-25 than my 386DX-40 with ISA bus VGA card.

On my A1200 with 50MHz 030 25 fps feels very smooth, but of course to get that I have to run it in a small window. Normally I run it 2 sizes down with low detail and get 11-20 fps (~15 fps on average), which is plenty fast enough and a satisfactory window size for me.

A 386DX-40 should get similar results to my A1200, and a 486 would be faster so with those settings 20-25 fps seems believable.
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