• ulterno
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    2 个月前

    screensaver

    Definitely won’t be a CPU saver though

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        Yeah, I remember a few of the Win98 ones.

        Which one would be harder on the old processors though? Pipes, or the one in which it put a moving magnifying glass or bubbles on an image of the current desktop?

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          i think pipes was opengl and swirl was software, so probably the latter

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            On a Pentium 2 without Voodoo, both would be software

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              did pipes even work without a graphics driver? i know maze didn’t

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                Hmm. Now my memory might be being a bit flaky with Windows 98 vs Windows XP (which was run on a Pentium 4 and that one surely had a onboard GPU on the motherboard), but I remember for sure that if there was a listing in the screensavers dialogue for it, it worked (because I don’t remember any one of that not working).

                I do remember seeing the message about voodoo not being available, when I tried to install Desert Storm from a CD, so it definitely didn’t have that (the computer was handed down and I was a kid and didn’t open and see it).