> The games are not doing much OS interaction at all. That's where most of the delays come from
...really? My PC is orders of magnitude more powerful than the 166Mhz Pentium PC my family used in the 90s, yet the interface is no faster. Was interacting with the OS somehow orders of magnitude faster back then? I can run Win98 in a virtual machine with all the associated overhead... hell, I can do that on top of f'ing javascript in a web browser, and it is still more responsive than modern OSs.
...really? My PC is orders of magnitude more powerful than the 166Mhz Pentium PC my family used in the 90s, yet the interface is no faster. Was interacting with the OS somehow orders of magnitude faster back then? I can run Win98 in a virtual machine with all the associated overhead... hell, I can do that on top of f'ing javascript in a web browser, and it is still more responsive than modern OSs.