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"Sorry boss, just leaving the Imperial Sewers isn't an adequate FPS test, I gotta play through to the Great Gate at Bruma to really get it pegged, see ya tomorrow"...

Dating myself a bit, and apologies for going way off topic, but back in the Windows 3.1 days when it was just a shell on top of DOS with no true multithreading kernel, we used Tetris to put a load on the CPU to see how our apps performed in the background. Purely in the interests of performance testing, of course, but man could you rack up superhuman scores with those blocks coming down like they were sinking through glycerine.

Belthan wrote:"Sorry boss, just leaving the Imperial Sewers isn't an adequate FPS test, I gotta play through to the Great Gate at Bruma to really get it pegged, see ya tomorrow"...

Dating myself a bit, and apologies for going way off topic, but back in the Windows 3.1 days when it was just a shell on top of DOS with no true multithreading kernel, we used Tetris to put a load on the CPU to see how our apps performed in the background. Purely in the interests of performance testing, of course, but man could you rack up superhuman scores with those blocks coming down like they were sinking through glycerine.

Hi! Hm. I used to overhear my younger brother talking about doing activities like that, but I never understood the contect of what it was supposed to be or why he was doing it. But now thanks to this thread and some of the posts near mine, I think I get it. So thanks for the insight!