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Why 3D Pinball for Windows could hit 5,000 FPS — sort of

A coding quirk in 3D Pinball for Windows turned it into a high-performance anomaly on newer machines, using entire CPU cores ...

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

"My game engine had a bug, in that it would draw frames as fast as it could" said Plummer. At the time, the game was being ...