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there's also the story that wiggling the mouse in Win95 when installing something really does make it go faster. https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/quest
by Tarsul 1y ago
there's also the story that wiggling the mouse in Win95 when installing something really does make it go faster.
https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/11533/why-did-moving-the-mouse-cursor-cause-windows-95-to-run-more-quickly https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/11533/why...
- rft 1y agoThere also is the (somewhat) famous caps lock gamble in XCOM 2 [1]. Quote: "Hitting the key, through a rube-goldberg-esque series of events, forces all outstanding load requests to be filled immediately in a single frame. This causes a massive hitch, and potentially could crash the game. If you don't care about those adverse effects the synchronous load is faster." [1] https://www.eurogamer.net/a-single-button-press-skips-loading-screens-in-xcom-2 https://www.eurogamer.net/a-single-button-press-skips-loadin...