Quake was, IIRC, the first mass market game which used the floating point unit. 486SX owners just couldn't run it. It also suffered more than most games on 486e

Quake was, IIRC, the first mass market game which used the floating point unit. 486SX owners just couldn't run it. It also suffered more than most games on 486es and non-Intel chips, since the Pentium FPU was streets ahead of any other x86 chip at the time. http://www.team5150.com/~andrew/carmack/johnc_interview_1997_John_Carmack__The_Boot_Interview_Outtakes.html http://www.team5150.com/~andrew/carmack/johnc_interview_1997... (search for "float")