First post, by Malik
- Rank
- l33t
As an avid Wing Commander fan, I can confirm that I have attained the perfect Wing Commander playing speed in a 486 DX2-66.
My setup is posted here.
Summary of setup :
intel 486 DX2-66 running at stock speed,
All shadow ram enabled,
Turbo is ON,
Internal Cache DISABLED
EDIT : External Cache ENABLED
Used ICD.EXE to disable the internal cache.
That's it. No other slowdown utilities. No 386s.
It's smooth from the ORIGIN Trailer opening screen, the classic 3D intro, the screen scroll at the briefing room during hand raise by the colonel, the running to ship sequence, the dogfights, the landing, everything!!!!
I reinstalled from the floppy disks last night, (the 3 high dens disks still work after all these years!), played the 1st mission till landing back at Tiger's Claw. I can say it's smoother than it was in my 286, 20 years ago!
I'm happy that the i486 DX2-66 can do this.
I've uploaded both the ice.exe and icd.exe in the icdice.zip file below for your convenience.
Downloaded from http://www.oldskool.org/guides/oldonnew/cripple