Re: Best OPL emulation settings

Posted on 2020-06-25, 16:49

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I can't hear any discernable difference between NukedOPL and real hardware, fwiw. This may depend on a concrete music or sounds. What is your sound hardware and its system settings. Not only software's settings. Should be used blind comparision, anyway, and there are such plugins for music players. …

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Re: DOSBox 0.74 CPU Benchmark

Posted on 2020-06-07, 15:00

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jmarsh wrote on 2020-06-03, 23:22: You can't magically cache stuff without loading it first. There can be different reasons for the jump of the performance.

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Re: DOSBox 0.74 CPU Benchmark

Posted on 2020-06-03, 21:01

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The first pass has to translate the code then run it, subsequent runs don't need to translate if the memory hasn't been changed. Speedtest by 2 runs (2 identical strings in a batch file) by the recommended procedure gives results differing <5% on my machine/OS and 0.74. This % is similar to random …

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Re: DOSBox 0.74 CPU Benchmark

Posted on 2020-06-02, 00:21

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With dosbox 0.74-3 I have 1124.7 instead of 803.4 with the first pass. Why these differences ? It's better to try a real game as Doom or Quake and in case you'll get significant (>10%) instable benchmark results there, - to ask about strange emulation behavior in a specific theme or development …

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Re: Dosbox 0.75?

Posted on 2020-05-24, 20:49

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in case there is a good reason why 64 bit versions of DOSBox aren't more prevalent They are expected to coexist with x32. The best would be place x32 and x64 SVN builds together alike dosbox-x does. And maybe to place a note about more possible issues of x64 build with the recommendation to try x32 …

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Re: DOSBox speed vs real DOS PC?

Posted on 2020-05-18, 00:43

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some data is there DOSBox 0.74 CPU Benchmark https://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Performance It's an approximation which supposes a similar enough code. Doom and Speedtst performance should be useful for most games. Quake is more useful for late 3D games.

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Re: Dosbox 0.75?

Posted on 2020-05-18, 00:22

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Kerr Avon wrote on 2020-05-17, 15:32: Where can I download the faster version of DOSBox, please? There was a talk about significantly faster new SVN x64 builds. Maybe some place hosts x64 builds of recent SVN. Emucr does not, for example, despite 64-bit Windows is common today.

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Re: Dosbox 0.75?

Posted on 2020-05-16, 20:16

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Seems the next significant improvement should be x64 code of dynamic core for x64 build. It exists in current SVN and improves the speed a lot.

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Re: i7-3770K Ultimate XP/Vista/7/8.1 Gaming Machine

Posted on 2020-05-16, 19:42

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I'd choose 2xxx CPU due to more possible problems with a paste under the cover. While the speed is almost the same. 780 Ti Superclocked - higher temp cards as "Ti" may to have lesser working time, besides creating higher temps is not good for other old hardware near. Nvidia Pascal with turbine …

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Re: AUDIO - Nuked OPL3 Patch for DOSBox(+Windows build) (SDL1)

Posted on 2020-05-13, 15:04

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Would be interesting to see the sound comparision of this with standard DOSBox's FM emulation. Better in some games to notice the practical imrovement. It's not clear when the significant difference can be noticed.

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Re: Day of the Tentacle keeps locking up - CPU too fast?

Posted on 2020-05-03, 15:33

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This is at full speed. Actually, more than full speed, just for shits and giggles, I overclocked the CPU to 6x112 = 672 MHz. Hahahaha. No slowdowns. No caches disabled, no nothing. DOTT works fine, played over an hour. Both in pure DOS and the Win98 DOS box. Why. WHY??? Adlib FM works good on P3 …

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Re: Noisy old computers ?

Posted on 2020-04-13, 14:02

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As computers and machinery become more advanced they become quieter and silent. There are formal medical standards about safe level of noise at working places. Also there are personal tastes and preferences. There is nothing more. They want to have more performance and meanwhile cheaper - this …

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Re: Install Gravis Ultrasound Properly, All files, No Errors (With Pictures!)

Posted on 2020-03-29, 14:05

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Star Control 2 is one of the games having excellent music and GUS support. I had no correct work of GUS emulation there with 0.74, at least. I hope there will be guide to fix that sometimes. There were only about ~300 games with GUS support.

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Re: Best tracker MODS ever

Posted on 2020-03-29, 10:45

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spacedrone808 wrote on 2020-03-14, 16:41: Sounds arabic! Eastern Europeans more know the similar from Central Asia and near. Another music of the same author.

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Re: Best tracker MODS ever

Posted on 2020-03-04, 01:24

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Voice of Legends - one of what I liked

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Re: DOSBox 0.74 CPU Benchmark

Posted on 2020-03-01, 09:24

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jmarsh wrote on 2020-03-01, 02:05: Official (0.74-3 and older) 64-bit builds have a dynamic core, but it's not the 64-bit dynamic_x86 core. then those are not 64-bit completely builds 😀

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Re: DOSBox 0.74 CPU Benchmark

Posted on 2020-03-01, 00:43

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To be fair, the performance delta between 32-bit builds in Quake at 320x200 doesn't seem as dramatic as that shown in the Speedtst scores. 0.74-3 gets ~212fps, 32-bit MinGW SVN build gets ~220fps, 32-bit VS build gets ~245. The VS build is about 15% faster than 0.74-3 and is 11% faster than the …

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Re: Phil's Ultimate VGA Benchmark Database Project

Posted on 2020-02-29, 22:51

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Compared to the initial tests pack, in the current 1.4 there is a change of parameters for Quake: viewsize 120 -> 100 (120 sets complete screen view, while 100 is by default, reduces the screen by the returning of health/ammo bar). This rises on ~14% the Quake's 320x200 results in DOSBox and should …

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Re: PCem's performance, effective clockspeed & emulation speed?

Posted on 2020-02-27, 01:56

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Seems, that PCem needs own benchmark theme so people could assume what computer analogue they may expect to get. For Win9x era computers, applications and games the perfrormance in Unreal + Voodoo 2 mb messured, for example. Though, newer Direct3D card emulation would be better for Win9x tasks as …

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Re: DOSBox 0.74 CPU Benchmark

Posted on 2020-02-22, 17:59

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I ran this on my i9-9900KS @ 5.2 GHz and the framerate is actually LOWER (about 74 FPS) than my i7-7700K 5 GHz runs. Weird. I got 83 FPS in 800x600 in timedemo 1 in fullscreen mode, though. 2/76 = ~3% is in borders of measurement accuracy, according to what I saw. There was no significant per Hz …

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