Unbound speed

Software theme

Game speed is purely dependent on how fast your computer can run it, making them run unplayably fast on newer machines without artificial means of slowing it down.

games

platforms

Alternate name: CPU bound speed

CyberStorm2: Corporate Wars

WIN 1998

Thunder Blade

DOS 1989

Waterworld: The Quest For Dry Land

DOS 1997-09-26

Legend of The Silver Talisman

DOS 1996

This is caused by the game being CPU clock bound (performing actions as soon as the CPU can handle them) rather than time delta bound (performing actions based on elapsed time).

Popular tags

cdrom

Parent groups

Compatibility, Frame synced

Games by year

The first Unbound speed video game was released in 1989.

Platforms