Re: Optimization Flags for Build DOSBox
Posted on 2004-09-07, 06:07
I haven't really noticed any performance drop with coreswitch patch. It's true I haven't done any side to side comparison, perhaps I'll try that...
Re: Optimization Flags for Build DOSBox
Posted on 2004-09-06, 09:15
coreswitch patch on my page will show number of emulated cycles in the titlebar. It also adds a timesync mode where dosbox will only emulate the number of cycles it can thus making benchmarks produce valid results (and allowing to set cycles unreasonably high, without overloading the host machine). …
Re: Gulikoza - Joystick Support in your CVS Builds
Posted on 2004-09-02, 20:32
Hmm...mapper works for me, kinda - haven't played that much. I'll see when I can make new builds, I've been quite busy these last few days I haven't even checked the changelog... As for TIE fighter...I just read over at mypixels you're using AMD64. It really seems to give dosbox a lot of boost. Tie …
Re: Gulikoza - Joystick Support in your CVS Builds
Posted on 2004-09-01, 07:55
Yes..I applied ih8regs joystick patch to see how it works. To make it work, you have to map the joystick. Press CTRL-1 to get to the mapper screen, then assign the buttons and axes to your joystick. It's best to map both joysticks as TIE Fighter will by default use the second one. There's no message …
Re: Making DosBox .0.61 faster ?
Posted on 2004-08-31, 11:35
first of all, try to find which output is fastest on your system. Start dosbox with different options (surface, overlay, opengl...) and check processor usage - then use the one with the lowest usage. Also, use dynamic core whenever possible. If the game doesn't start with dynamic core and uses a dos …
Re: How to gwt Dos Box into real time
Posted on 2004-08-30, 09:04
Or use timesync mode patch with the latest cvs, which will never use more cycles than your computer can handle 😁
Re: Alpha version of Direct3D support
Posted on 2004-08-24, 14:01
There you go...I've updated all the patches (including the missing one to apply to clean cvs 😁). But I think I lost sfx in Doom. This might be related to harekiet's patches...or I've messed something else up...
Re: Alpha version of Direct3D support
Posted on 2004-08-24, 12:29
All LCDs are only made to display their native (==highest) resolution. All other modes are just scaled-up (which LCDs do a pretty poor job, you're better off with dosbox scaling I guess). What I was trying to say is, no matter what resolution you use in fullscreen IMO all games should be exactly the …
Re: Alpha version of Direct3D support
Posted on 2004-08-24, 11:37
Well...I thought there must be a utility to change the dos exender, but I didn't bother to check :happyhappy:. This is turning into quite interesting discussion. I recompiled SDL yesterday (but not dosbox, so some problems might be because of that) and I also was not pleased with the results. It was …
Re: Alpha version of Direct3D support
Posted on 2004-08-23, 21:40
Well, since you are using my version you can start the game with normal core and then switch to dynamic (ctrl-3) as soon as the intro video starts playing. I only played it for a short time, but the game seems to be working ok with dynamic core. Also - sometimes it helps if you use a dos32a extender …
Re: Alpha version of Direct3D support
Posted on 2004-08-23, 09:01
But Ieremiou's builds already have this enabled? Or DDraw wouldn't work for anyone, right? I'll take a look and try to recompile SDL...
Re: Alpha version of Direct3D support
Posted on 2004-08-21, 20:16
hmm...ddraw doesn't work for me even with your build. At first I thought my builds might have something screwed-up but it seems this is not the issue. So d3d still remains the best option for me 😁
Re: Joystick patch: handling through the mapper & joystick emulators.
Posted on 2004-08-12, 14:45
There's one potential problem I found...by default both joysticks are enabled. This might lead to some confusion when user maps joystick_0 correctly, but the game defaults to joystick_1 which is not mapped. Perhaps only the number of real joysticks should be enabled - BUT, as I understand, the point …
Re: Alpha version of Direct3D support
Posted on 2004-08-10, 12:50
Good to know it works 😁 hmm...it might be I forgot to apply the joystick patch. In any case...there are some changes being implemented currently to joystick support to work with the mapper. I might apply ih8regs' patch in the next build...
Re: Alpha version of Direct3D support
Posted on 2004-08-09, 17:10
heh...haven't even noticed all the edits :p If you haven't compiled yet, could you reapply my patch? I have made some code cleanups, fullscreen is handled a bit different (not sure if stretching you noticed has been fixed - AFAIK without fullfixed D3D should display fullscreen AS IS) and the mouse …
Re: Alpha version of Direct3D support
Posted on 2004-08-07, 21:33
Well...I haven't checked all this configure stuff, so I don't know how to properly add it...fixing Makefiles seemed like a better and faster idea to get it running 😊 Yes, my builds are compiled with ddraw, but all I'm getting is Failed to create ddraw surface, back to normal surface.
Re: Alpha version of Direct3D support
Posted on 2004-08-07, 21:24
Well, I have the headers in c:\MinGW\msys\1.0\include\dxinc and copied the .lib files to c:\MinGW\msys\1.0\lib. My compiling line looks something like this: CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/include/dxinc" ./configure; patch -p1 < ../dosbox_direct3d_makefile …
Re: Alpha version of Direct3D support
Posted on 2004-08-07, 12:14
1. fulldouble=true turns on tripple buffering (since double buffering is always used anyway). This should improve framerate when vsync is set, since the application can render to a third buffer while waiting for vsync. For now, vsync is disabled and this option is merely there to do something : …
Re: Alpha version of Direct3D support
Posted on 2004-08-06, 22:09
Another update on my page. It makes D3D mode a whole lot faster on DX8.1+ hardware and it works with any scaler. Unfortunately, all those of you with older graphics card this is somewhat of a bad news, since it makes D3D quite slow. I don't know yet how to solve this...any feedback appreciated.
Re: Alpha version of Direct3D support
Posted on 2004-08-03, 19:39
Well, I'm compiling with -march=athlon-xp in order to use 3dNOW! and SSE support so I'd guess this cpu is required. I don't want to support every cpu type out there (and using correct cpu flags when compiling will gain at least a few % of speed for free) since everybody can compile dosbox to their …
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