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  1. Space Cadet Pinball: 5,000 FPS, the Frame-Rate Fix, and Windows Engineering

    Dave Plummer’s confession that his port of 3D Pinball for Windows — the Space Cadet table so many of us grew up with — once drew frames “as fast as it could” and reportedly hit roughly 5,000 FPS on newer hardware has resurfaced a powerful, funny and instructive moment in Windows engineering...
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    • Forum: Windows News

  2. Space Cadet Pinball: The Busy-Loop Timing Lesson in Windows NT

    Dave Plummer’s confession — that his Windows NT port of the beloved Space Cadet pinball ran “as fast as it could,” eventually spiking to “like, 5,000 frames per second” on modern hardware — is as entertaining as it is instructive, and it revisits a compact engineering lesson about timing...
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  3. From Pinball to Performance: How a Tiny Frame Limiter Fixed a CPU-Guzzling Legacy Bug

    Dave Plummer’s confession that the worst bug he ever shipped was tied to the beloved Windows pack‑in game Pinball is more than a nostalgic anecdote — it’s a compact lesson in resource management, legacy code risk, and the kind of tiny design decisions that can balloon into systemic problems as...
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  5. Windows 10 How to enable Fastsync on Nvidia 600 series and up

    The very latest Nvidia cards (1080/1070 ) coupled with driver version 368.22 have a new form of Vsync called Fastsync. Fastsync basically is like an improved version of Triple buffering. ''Fast Sync: As of the 368.22 GeForce drivers, Nvidia has introduced a new form of VSync called Fast Sync...
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    Windows 8 windows screen hz problem

    hello everyone, i have an issue with my hz that my computer outputs. i've built 2 extremly highend pc's, both have this issue. i've tried around 10 graphic cards both nvidia and amd with dozens of drivers & 7 different monitors. EIST is disabled all c states are disabled hyperthread is disabled...
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    • Forum: Windows Help and Support

  7. Windows 8 AMD XFX Radeon 6850 Vsync problem

    Hello, I have a XFX Radeon 6850 video card ( running on Windows 7) and Vertical Sync doesn't work and it's most notable when i play videos ( movies or on YouTube), the image get's distorted like the Vsync isn't activated. From the AMD Video card settings i have set Vertical sync to be...
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    • Forum: Windows Graphics and Gaming
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    Windows 7 Experiencing Sudden FPS Drops in CS 1.6 on Acer 5742G Laptop - Seeking Help

    Hi guys(and girls) I have an acer 5742g laptop config: Intel i5 460m@2.53ghz 4 gb ddr3 ram nvidia geforce gt 420m 1gb I'm running w7 home premium 64-bit Now I only play cs 1.6 and untill recently my fps was steady at 99-100 but now my fps drops to 30-70 without any reason during the game. I've...
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    • Forum: Windows Help and Support

  9. Windows 7 Screen Flickering for some Games

    This problem has been persistent and has made many of my games unplayable. Some games like Worms, City of Heroes, and BIT.TRIP RUNNER flicker on my laptop, but it can also run more graphics heavy games like Battlefield 2 or Half Life 2. Adjusting resolution and vsync does nothing and my graphics...
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    Windows 7 Horizontal sync? Tearing? Lines?

    Hello, I'm not sure of how to explain this but when playing videos and games on my LCD TV or LCD monitor there is sometimes a tearing of the image, usually during a great amount of movement. I have tried turning vsync on in games and it didn't solve the issue, just dropped frame rates. So...