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Vanilla or source portwads that struggled on a pentium 1/2?

Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2017 1:06 pm
by invictius
The earliest wad I can think of that needed more than an original pentium is phobos anomoly reborn. I didn't play much doom between the 586 and pentium 4 eras, were there even any vanilla/early boom/early zdoom wads that needed a pentium 2?

Re: Vanilla or source portwads that struggled on a pentium 1

Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2017 1:27 pm
by Graf Zahl
With vanilla you must consider that it was heavily restricted by the visplane and drawsegs limits. This alone limited geometry quite considerably.
More I cannot tell, I already used a high-res port and more powerful CPU when I got back into Doom in 1998 after abandoning it for other games in 1995 so I cannot say how the more complex mods of the time would have fared on a low end system.

Re: Vanilla or source portwads that struggled on a pentium 1

Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2017 1:49 pm
by invictius
Graf Zahl wrote:With vanilla you must consider that it was heavily restricted by the visplane and drawsegs limits. This alone limited geometry quite considerably.
More I cannot tell, I already used a high-res port and more powerful CPU when I got back into Doom in 1998 after abandoning it for other games in 1995 so I cannot say how the more complex mods of the time would have fared on a low end system.
Would you expect something like eternal doom to be slow on a windows port, on a late-model pentium/early pentium 2? Most demanding vanilla wad I can think of.