Which you still had to do under win 95. And in fact, it could be worse; the “DOS” underneath win 95 used more conventional memory. Went on large disk support as far as I can tell.
95 native for gaming on a 486 was a non starter. Too much overhead.
By the time hardware was good enough to handle 95, and games for 95; 98 was out. But that period up to 1998 if you were a gamer without unlimited budget, DOS was the only way really!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
