should be fine as is, a 486 was pretty good in 92
although faster is better

Ultima 7 -the Black Gate has no frame limiter so if the PC is too fast the game will be too fast as well. A Pentium 100 played it fine, though 😉

Dominus wrote:

Ultima 7 -the Black Gate has no frame limiter so if the PC is too fast the game will be too fast as well. A Pentium 100 played it fine, though 😉

A P100? almost everything ive read says even a 66mhz 486 is to fast. I know the 33mhz 486 is the reccommended CPU but I wasnt sure if it ran slightly sluggish at that speed and a 40mhz would be perfect.

My first pc was a p100 (or p90?) and I THINK it played fine without a slow down utility. But it has been ages, who knows what I remember 😉

Ultima 7 would run fast, and then slow depending upon the screen items/etc. Sometimes it was slow as hell on my 486DX2-66, and other times was almost too fast. Depends upon the scene.

I've got a TON of retro systems I'm playing games on, but haven't revisited Ultima 7 for a long time on a true retro system. I'll play with it this week on a 386DX-40, 486DX-33 and 66, and a pentium 90Mhz and 166MHz and post back here either this Saturday or next week.

Much of this material has already been covered in The ultimate Ultima 7 machine .

Exult or U7Run still seem like perfectly reasonable solutions to me.

Its a tough one. I like games to be fast and responsive but if you go with anything above about 50mhz it becomes very difficult to click on npcs for conversation and more so in combat. As well as impossible if the npc is fleeing. Then at 25mhz the scrolling is awful. Its like 3 steps (pause) 3 steps (pause)

where is the perfect balance?

I've been recently playing on a 486DX-33 with a tekram cache controller. Its a good speed but sometimes I wish menus/paperdolls were a little faster and combat a little slower + faster scrolling 😀

exult.......?

http://exult.sf.net the best way to play u7 - but I'm biased 😉

Hi dominus

I do love exult. What a valuable contribution.
I tried running it on my cyrix 5x86 133 with windows 98, 64mb ram, 32mb video card but it was just a tad too slow:)

how many working mods are there that add new content?

Is feudal lands the only one?

You can check out U7Run at http://members.iinet.net.au/~rsd/five.html . It is designed for Win9x explicitly.

Eh? Hosted on iinet? Is it made by an aussie?

thanks jorpho

Exult:
the best working mods are atm, the BG keyring mod and SI Fixes, both by Marzo, developer of Exult and part of the feudal land team (which might never go further...).
Currently there is a U6 project that seems nicely progressing 😀
Exult is as Dosbox, resource hungry, give it a good machine to run on 😀