Mau1wurf1977 wrote:M1so you need to relax and accept that others have different opinions. I understand that back in the days we simply played on whatever we had. But these days I find it silly to play Doom on a 386 when you can play it on a fast Pentium.
Here is Doom on a 386DX: http://youtu.be/gzxnB2CD6aw?t=11m7s
I know many who played it on a 386DX and remember it as "playing fine". But for me, it's not fine and I prefer it on a Pentium.
Most people who remember it "playing fine" would have it running in low detail mode and with screen size slightly reduced. I hate how all youtube videos run games at ridiculously high settings on ancient HW. The reason why S3 Virge for example got such a bad rap was because reviewers tested in on high end machines in 640x480, where it indeed was slower than software. On the typical machine of the day, it would produce smooth framerates in 320x240, in 16-bit color and with billinear filtering. Many people forget that many SW renderers of that time only worked in 256 colors and in 320x200.
I am not writing this because I am accustomed to low fps, I just don't consider 30 fps low. I never had a PC where reducing detail to medium or low wouldn't solve the problem, so I am lucky in this issue.
Anyways, that Doom video is not running at anything near 30, 25, 20 or even 15 fps. Quake on 486 runs better than that and it runs at cca 8 fps. I guess this Doom video has it about at 2-5 fps.