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Auto = 3000 cycles?

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First post, by SKARDAVNELNATE

Posted on 2009-06-04, 19:09

SKARDAVNELNATE Offline

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I've noticed for most of my games auto will set cycles to max. However for some it sets cycles to 3,000. These were games that at first I thought were running slow until I switched to window mode and saw the cycles display. I then set them to max myself and on average they only used about 40%. 20,000 cycles also seems good and hardly impacts my processor. Why is auto setting these games to such a low number?

Reply 1 of 1, by Kippesoep

Posted on 2009-06-04, 19:11

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It's a heuristic where auto setting chooses max for "protected mode" games. Those are generally the more recent ones (from the early 90s and later). There are also older "real mode" games, predominantly during the 1980s and early 90s that would be unplayable on higher speeds.

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