If you are experiencing pauses in WING COMMANDER III, The company you bought 
your PC from may not have set it up correctly.  My 486DX/4-100 was 
performing like a slow 486DX/2 when I first received it, however, upon 
examination of the BIOS (mine was AMI BIOS), I found that the  BIOS was assuming
that I had the SLOWEST RAM available (i.e. 120ns), rather than the 70ns (FASTER) 
RAM that was installed.  It was also using up 3-4 wait states for DRAM/CACHE 
read/writes.  It should have been 2-2-1-1.  If you have AMI BIOS, you may want 
to check this section in the ADVANCED CHIPSET SETUP menu in your BIOS settings.

To change the neccessary settings, you will have to disable the AUTO-CONFIG 
option. BE SURE TO WRITE ALL THE SETTINGS DOWN FIRST, THOUGH, AS IF YOU SCREW 
UP THE SETTINGS YOUR PC WON'T BOOT.  This way you can revert to the original 
settings if you run into problems.  

This problem isn't as uncommon as it should be-- I've run into it many 
a time in my Network troubleshooting at work, as well as 3 out of 4 of the 
PC's my friends own.  Such is the price of having every schlock and their 
grandmother thinking that the only thing to making a sellable PC is 
throwing a motherboard and a few I/O cards and a CD-ROM into a box and 
taking out an ad in the Computer Shopper.  

Just so you know, the Norton SI (sysinfo) CPU indexes (accessed under 
the _B_enchmarks menu) should be as follows for the following processors:

Processor		Norton SI CPU 
Family/Speed	        Benchmark Index
------------------------------------
386/33DX		36
486/33 (DX or SX)	72
486/66 (DX or SX)	138
486/100DX (AMD)	        198
Pentium 60		195
Pentium 90		295

Any large variances indicates a problem with your system's configuration.

Hope this helps!

R.