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You must be thinking of a different game - Falcon 3.0 came out in 1991 when a 486 would've been top-of-the-line. I played this fine on a 486SX and it was fine.
by NovemberWhiskey 3y ago
You must be thinking of a different game - Falcon 3.0 came out in 1991 when a 486 would've been top-of-the-line. I played this fine on a 486SX and it was fine.
- sumtechguy 3y agoYeah that spec of machine should have easily played 3.0. Unless it was running too fast?
- hparadiz 3y agoI remember it taking minutes to load and then only getting under 20 fps. Maybe I had the graphics up too high. I didn't know what I was doing at all.
- sumtechguy 3y agoIf I remember right that game was wildly picky about the amount of memory free in the lower area. It may also have been an XMS/EMS issue. Some games were really picky about what you had running. It could have been not using the extra 15MB of memory if it was not set correctly.
- NovemberWhiskey 3y agoI think maybe you’re thinking of Falcon 4.0?
- wyldfire 3y agoI tried playing it on a 386SX/16MHz and it definitely suffered. It was somewhat playable with the detail features cranked down to minimum.
- NovemberWhiskey 3y agoI think it also really wanted a floating point coprocessor for the high fidelity flight model.