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dantheclamman@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

Former MS engineer Dave Plummer admits he accidentally coded Pinball to run 'at like, 5,000 frames per second' on Windows NT

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Former MS engineer Dave Plummer admits he accidentally coded Pinball to run 'at like, 5,000 frames per second' on Windows NT

www.pcgamer.com

dantheclamman@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago
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One whole core for pinball duties.
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    The bug was fixed by another ex-Microsoft engineer, Raymond Chen. Speaking on Plummer’s other YouTube channel, Dave’s Garage, Chen fondly remembers adding a frame rate limiter, thereby reigning the game in to a 100 fps maximum.

    And now that we have monitors running at over 100 Hz, that’s too low…

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      I am pretty sure CRTs could easily get over 100Hz depending on resolution.

      Someone even got 700Hz, although at just 120p on an old CRT

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