whats an E6600? videocard? intel chip? amd chip?

typing that into your favourite search engine whould have been faster. Intel Cor2 Duo

yup intels conroe CPUs range from E6300/E6400 (cheapest) to E6600/E6700 and X6800 (hi end).

@dosfreak, happy testing. 😀

EDIT: the E6600 models semes to be very OC friendly. > 3 GHz should be no problem.

have you guys seen how unbelievable fast Conroe/Allendale/Merom are for SSE ops? OMG! The thing scores like almost 3x faster than a P4 in the straight SSE test in Sandra. Of course that doesn't happen in real-world stuff, but you can bet that it is indicative of just how seriously they took SIMD in these new chips.

Didn't get a chance to test out my new work machine today. Way too busy.

Had to help a guy with OSX over the phone and I don't have an OSX machine in front of me. 1 hr on the phone. FUN FUN FUN!

SSE are broken down into 2 instructions on A64 and P4 because data path is only 64-bits wide (and SSE can operate with 128bit operands). Core2 increases the bus width to 128bit. So will K8L I hope 😀

What about Stonekeep? Tex Murphy games?

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SSE are broken down into 2 instructions on A64 and P4 because data path is only 64-bits wide (and SSE can operate with 128bit operands). Core2 increases the bus width to 128bit. So will K8L I hope 😀

Yah from the slides from AMD presentations I've seen, AMD's definitely making some changes with SIMD.
http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/editorial … conf-part1.html

Here's that Sandra bench I was talking about too:
http://techreport.com/reviews/2006q3/core2/index.x?pg=15

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What did you do to get Skynet working? I've been trying for like 5 years seriously to get that game working in 640x480 and the only machine it works on is an old 75mhz which is too slow to do it right. I just built a W95 P2 and I think it works on there, but it errors out the monitor because it's out of range in 640x480.

So anyway, how did you get it working in Dosbox? It crashes Dosbox for me, and in straight XP it freezes at the "Detecting FPU" part. You'll be my hero if you can tell me how to do this. SKYnet is one of my favorite games *ever*

I'm using Dosbox .065 and have a Geforce 7800 GT XP Pro SP2, 2 gigs of ram, 2.53ghz p4.

First of all, are you using a ripped version or the original CD? Second of all, always replace DOS4GW with DOS32A. Other than that, the game should run fine if you use a recent CVS and use dynamic mode+auto cycles.

I have the original CD from when I got the game back in the day..I'm gonna try the DOS32A trick when I get home tonight and the settings you suggested, because I'm still having the same problem with doxbox .7. Thanks though!

i have tested blood and duke with dosbox 0.7@ athlon 64 @ 2400mhz, blood is playable with 640*480, 800*600 is a bit to much, but with an coreduo@3 ghz, it could be playable

duke works nicely with 800*600

duke@ 320*240 70 fps
640*480 ~ 35 - 65 fps
800*600 ~ 30 fps

Quake@ 320*240 45 - 65 fps
640*480 ~ 25 fps
800*600 ~ 18 -19 fps

Blood 320 *240 70 fps
640 *480 ~ 35 -45 fps
800 *600 ~ 23 - 35 fps

that's not a conroe.

sorry cant afford a new pc every year, but i think its still good enough for a comparison

Try the need for speed. See if you can run it on highest detail settings and everything.

A duocore @ 3 ghz should have around 50 % more frames than my athlon 64 @ 2,4 ghz, its just a guess but a duocore
with 2,4 ghz is 22,5% faster than my athlon with the same speed and a 3ghz duocore has 25
% more speed as a duocore @ 2,4 ghz= 1,225 * 1,25 = ~ 1,53= 53 %

p.s.
ill try need for speed

need for speed high res: 30 - 60 fps with athlon 64 @ 2,4 ghz

fps fluctuates alot but never goes bellow 30, very playable

I believe this thread defines irony 😁

Using a lot of my time between classes for testing, I can maintain at LEAST 30fps in most games using a P4/3.20GHz chip with HT in XP Pro. Similar results on Pentium D chips using XP Pro x64 Edition.

20fps+
Battlespire
Blood

30fps+
Arena
Daggerfall
Duke Nukem 3D
Redneck Rampage
Shadow Warrior
Descent

40fps+
Wolfenstein 3D
All Doom Games
Heretic
Hexen
Strife

50fps+
Battletech I/II
Mechwarrior
Detroit
Veil of Darkness
Lords of The Realm

I program the best configurations into my launcher application so that when a user first runs the launcher, it generates these configurations for the games. You can download the launcher and run it to create the INI file, then open the INI file in Wordpad or whatever if you want to see what I am doing to attain these framerates. I get these framerates on a P4/1.8GHz system also, so they will work on older machines as well as shiny new ones!

Have you tried "Screamer 2 & Screamer Rally" or "Comanche 3"? These are the only games that I've still found to be a bit slow-ish under v0.70. And they all work fine if I lower the detail levels.