/me raises hand

One definite way to crash is to get CPU frequency by the TSC function which a lot of apps do......

DirectX 8 and newer refuses to install on 486 architecture at the installer level.

Steam almost runs. I almost entered the valve hardware survey with it 🙄

Infact alot of newer software simply fails without error message on older systems.
Like Everest don't run on a 386/W95, but it should regarding the official system requirements...
IE6 fails on 386, Firefox also.
Most of the Video stuff requires SSE. There is no check, the exe-files usually just crash.

I would really like to see a error message that states already at installer level that the application is compiled for pentium+ f.e.
Just finding out by try and error is really a pain.

IE6 fails on 386

Not that it matters, as IE6 does not run on Win95 which was the last to support the 386.

Not quite true. Windows 95 was the last version that would officially install on such a machine, but Windows 98 will run on a 386, if you patch the installer to disable the hardware check (or install it from a different machine then swap the hard drive over).

...Not that any sane person would want to actually use Win98 on a 386, but that's another matter entirely. 🤣

This is my best attempt with Windows 7

Cryrix 6x86MX @ 233Mhz
512MB RAM
20GB HDD

It wasn't a permanent arrangement it wasn't the fastest experience and I was pretty lazy in putting 512MB RAM when I could of gone for 384MB easily or maybe less.

I think eventually the CPU usage went down from 100% and sortof just permanently fluctuated to something slightly less then 100% I think.

I almost want to install it again to find out. The board is an AOpen board not sure what else about it without looking.

awergh wrote:

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Well done 🤣!
I remember having seen a vid of 7 (or was it Vista?) installed on a s7 Cyrix and it took forever to reach the desktop!

I don't remember the startup time being a huge amount of time but I don't quite remember.
I'm sure you still could get better though I gather it has to be at least a 686 processor from what I read somewhere or something like that.

awergh wrote:

Cryrix 6x86MX @ 233Mhz
512MB RAM
20GB HDD

Cute 😜