First post, by luckybob
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For those that dont know I recentmy finished an "ultimate" 386 build. Almost identical in setup to: 386DX40 build
I was flipping through the manual to simcity classic during the install and noticed this little tidbit in the troubleshooting section; "if you have done all of the above and it still wont run, and you have a math coprocessor, try disabling the coprocessor by typing SET NO87=DISABLE on the DOS command line, then hitting RETURN before running SimCity."
O RLY?
I finally put this to the test today. I built a city that filled a good part of the map, turned off disasters and turned on auto budget. And saved the city at January 2100. I left all other settings on the default. meaning, animations and sound were on. etc.
With a stopwatch, I resumed the city to max speed and waited 15 minutes and noted the stop date. I did this 3 times with a Cyrix math-co equipped and 3 times without. The results were rather startling!
With co-processor:
1: March 2207 (1287 months)
2: May 2207 (1289 months)
3: April 2207 (1288 months)
No co-processor:
1: December 2171 (863 months)
2: April 2172 (867 months)
3: February 2172 (875 months)
That's an almost 50% improvement if you have a math-co. 😲
So, when people ask if there are games that use a math-co. It would appear that Simcity classic does. Now if you excuse me, I'm going to re-install my math-co.
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.