alt Hacker NewsI'm pretty sure I completed Morrowind for the first time ever using both wine and a celeron. Likewise before that with VirtualPC (remember that?) on Mac OS (note the space!) and Age of Empires (not even Rise of Rome!).
Single-digit FPS can _absolutely_ be playable if you're a desperate enough ten-year-old...
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Single-digit FPS can _absolutely_ be playable if you're a desperate enough ten-year-old...
Absolutely, sweet memories playing at less than 10fps using zsnes on a 486 dx2 by 1999...
I've only ever played Skyrim on a 2009 13" MacBook Pro in Wine. It took like 30min to load and ran at like 4fps. But I didn't play past the first area.
Wasn't AoE1 released for PPC Mac natively? AoE2 was probably the best Mac game ever.
> Single-digit FPS can _absolutely_ be playable if you're a desperate enough ten-year-old...
I have fond memories of playing Diablo II at 16 fps on an old (even at the time) PowerMac. I am not sure I could do it now.
>Single-digit FPS can _absolutely_ be playable if you're a desperate enough ten-year-old...
And somehow, more mesmerizing than games feels like playing now. To be a kid again.
Me trying to run Falcon 4.0 on a 166 mhz P1 with 16 mb of edo ram.
Flashbacks of gaming on an XP-era HP Pavilion with graphics so bad water didn’t even render in Halo 1 PC flood my mind.
Countless kids played Morrowind below par spec on family computers all across America.
When I played (original vanilla) WoW I remember getting 2-3 fps in 40 player raids. The cursor wasn't tied to the game's framerate though. So with the right UI layout made from addons I could still be a pretty effective healer. I don't even remember what the dungeons looked like, just a giant grid of health bars, buttons and threat-meter graphs.
This would have been on some kind of Pentium 4 with integrated graphics. Not my earliest PC, but the first one I played any games on more advanced than the Microsoft Entertainment Packs.