@kontrollierterWahnwitz@grumpygamer@aaronsgiles@scummvm@DavidBFox I never saw any slowdowns, but conventional memory requirements were a HUGE issue for numerous games -- even many that ultimately used EMS still would require a lot just to load the initial executable stuff. And having CD-ROM drivers and such didn't help. Most people did bootdisks (one without, one with for instance.) Even mouse drivers could be tricky. I preferred a universal configuration and had to find low mem drivers.
@kontrollierterWahnwitz@grumpygamer@aaronsgiles@scummvm@DavidBFox Anyway, to more specifically answer your question, a lot of the most fundamental code had to be loaded low in part because all the higher memory required a lot more handling to actually manage. I don't know all the exact specifics of this (perhaps an expert will provide more details) but essentially some stuff just simply couldn't load high or in UMBs.
Anyway, besides disk swapping it may have done some RAM swapping even.
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