Not surprised pinball runs so well. Raymond Chen recently talked in an episode of Dave's Garage about how it ran at like 1000+ FPS on newer x64 machines, and had to implement a frame limiter.
The first version of the game was really optimized by the original developers to run smoothly on even the slowest machines (in 1994/95). That's probably the reason it didn't have a frame limiter originally.
It was probably forgotten code left over from the 1703 (I think) update to Windows 10. To be fair, it also reminds me of how the second stage and OOBE of Windows XP setup seemed to have a fallback to the Windows 2000 version.
I got it running about a year ago on a Celeron D 347 & FX 5500 combo, which is technically faster in benchmarks but from my experience it's way slower due to pipelining
@@BobPony Wanna know something interesting? Where I work we were still using Windows 7 up until like a year ago. We were also using Dell Wyse thin clients that were complete garbage. PCs took FOREVER to do anything. We have since switched to HP micro PCs and windows 10. Not sure when the company will move to 11.
i was stunned because that pc even booted onto windows 11. the worst hardware i ever tried windows 11 on was a dell inspiron 1501 drom early 2007 with amd turion 64 x2 tl-56 2 gb ddr2 and a 120 gb hdd and it ran like crap, though not as crap as this pc ran
I have a similar slim client with a VIA processor instead. Windows 8.1 and lower run fairly well on it, while Windows 10 and higher are a chore to use.
I don't understand why a computer this horrible exists? I mean, I suppose it doesn't take much space on the desk. But even for 2007 standards, this thing would have been TERRIBLE. probably. I wouldn't know because I've never tried one of these thin client things with such bad specs before. Although having 1gig of ram is quite interesting, as well as discrete graphics... Hmm. Also you used an external ssd?????? Too much power!
Too bad my HP cannot do that 😅 Since my HP, can't do that, I can only stay with Windows 7, which is kind of upsetting. But when I tried to download Windows 11 on VirtualBox, it took forever
