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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Re: DOSBox 0.74 CPU Benchmark

Posted on 2020-02-19, 19:20

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Yeah it is interesting. AMD IPC compares favorably to intel processors in some benchmarks and not in others. The example where 1st Ryzens are close in the performance to Sandy Bridge (of same 4/8 and close frequency). In DOSBox 2nd Ryzens are close to Sandy Bridge, while 1st are expected to be …

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Re: DOSBox 0.74 CPU Benchmark

Posted on 2020-02-19, 17:15

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Ryzen can be sensitive to memory bandwidth. DOSBox test has low influence from a memory of modern PCs. With lower or higher memory clocks you should get the same results. You may notice, the previous generation as AMD FX also has lesser performance in DOSBox than Intel CPUs of near time. In single …

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Re: DOSBox 0.74 CPU Benchmark

Posted on 2020-02-19, 16:46

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Ryzen R5 3600 @ ~ 4.15ghz Thank you. The improvement per Hz is ~15% compared to Ryzen 2xxx. Now it's close in DOSBox to Intel 4xxx at the same Hz. > A note on precision boost 2.0 - it oscillates clock speed between 4.05 and 4.2ghz constantly. 4.15ghz is pretty close to the average. It's close to …

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Re: Some guys opinion about DOSBox

Posted on 2020-02-15, 00:06

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Automatically changing settings for certain games is an interesting idea. Dolphin, NVIDIA driver, PCSX2 and Windows does this for example. The variety of Gamebase is the close example I saw for different retro platforms. For DOSBox specifically the needed settings were tested in ExoDOS. It's best …

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Re: Gigabyte GA-Z77M-D3H 1.1, Intel Core i7 3770K, MSI GeForce 960

Posted on 2020-02-14, 22:39

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There is one problem to use Ivy as retro PC. Such PC should work for longer than common. While those CPU have thermopaste under the cover (unlike 2xxx) which dry out, and the temperature should rise in performance tasks as games. Ivy is not significantly better in the performance, so 2600/2600k seem …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2020-02-14, 18:41

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Finally upgrading my PC after many years. Going Ryzen 5 3600 ... I do a lot of emulation, so I am excited for the extra threads and increase in IPC. DOSBox bench thread (check my signature) lacks newer Ryzen 3xxx to compare with previous 2xxx. Would be interesting to see the results for Ryzen's …

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Re: Upgrading my current Windows XP build

Posted on 2020-02-14, 18:30

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For Windows XP support build I'd chosen Intel i7 2xxx with PCI motherboard. As this besides good compatibility also covers later games of 2010-... years (until PS5 generation). Videocards with good XP games compatibility should be until GTX 5xx . Taking DX11 games, you may prefer 9xx as the last …

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Re: Some guys opinion about DOSBox

Posted on 2020-02-12, 20:22

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But is there a way to make Dosbox or any other Dos emulator more like a one click console emulator? It's useful to make a GUI for settings. Today people are not addopted to text files and command lines. Also with "Run the game" dialog. When it recongnizes the known game (by the filenames) - it …

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Re: PCEm. Another PC emulator.

Posted on 2020-02-10, 19:39

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kruwi wrote on 2020-01-09, 19:08: I have tried out PCEM and am fairly impressed. My quite crappy laptop (Pentium Silver N5000) manages to emulate a Pentium 90 at full speed (between 99-101 percent, very rarely dropping to 97 percent) I suspect DOSBox allows x2 times faster emulation. Mb useful for …

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Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback

Posted on 2020-02-09, 22:40

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When edit a message, there is a button "Delete this post". It would be more comfortable to have this button/option on a distance from "Submit" button, but not close to it. On far left or right side or below through an empty line, for example. It's not often used button to have it near "Submit" and …

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Re: Some guys opinion about DOSBox

Posted on 2020-02-09, 22:21

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"DOSBox generally isn't optimal for running games in general as the performance isn't very good" Is not optimal... Would be curious what emulators were significantly faster for DOS games, meanwhile having comparable accuracy and compatibility. Mb some of today VM and new emulators are good enough, …

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Re: Can you run DOSBox in Windows 98 (NOT run Win98 in DOSbox!)

Posted on 2020-02-09, 20:42

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Try different software environments (and mb emulator's builds) as they may affect the emulation speed. For example, 0.74 worked faster in XP (I booted it from a Live CD, mb Alkid's one) than in Win98 SE. "soon to be upgraded to a 1Ghz Coppermine/100mhz bus" If your video card will hold 83 MHz AGP, …

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