How fast will your emulator run?

[+Larry]

Just upgraded my PC cpu to an Intel Conroe E6320.

Atari800WinPlus now runs at ~3400%, up about a 1000-1200% from my E4500.

Anyone getting over 4000%? An "accelerator" of sorts...

 

-Larry

[Rybags]

It can vary a lot depending on settings, the window size you've got going, and whatever else your machine's got going on.

 

Core2Duo E6420 (2.133) - best has probably been something like 5400%, usual is somewhere around 4000.

 

The later version (4.2 or whatever) that has multithreading, can benefit from enabling it, but the sound bugs and couple of other annoyances mean I've just reverted to the older version.

[sloopy]

oddly enough on my wifes office machine here (mines has a dead OS HD) atari800win + runs at ~1535-1536% (amd 6000 X2)

i wonder if it uses a ml routine in page 6 for this? the other working computer on this desk runs atari software at 100%,

it only has a 1.79Mhz 6502C so i dont expect it to run too fast...

 

 

sloopy.

[+Larry]

Hi Rybags-

Interesting. Our processors are very similar (E6400 vs. E6320 Core Duo @ 2.13GHz, 2MB+2MB cache) so I would think the performance would be pretty similar. No matter what my settings (video refresh rate, window size, etc.) mine seems to run around 3000 - 3400%. I do normally use real hardware, but for a few things like using ARC, having that kind of speed is pretty neat. I'll still probe around in the settings and see if something is amiss.

-Larry

 

It can vary a lot depending on settings, the window size you've got going, and whatever else your machine's got going on.

 

Core2Duo E6420 (2.133) - best has probably been something like 5400%, usual is somewhere around 4000.

 

The later version (4.2 or whatever) that has multithreading, can benefit from enabling it, but the sound bugs and couple of other annoyances mean I've just reverted to the older version.

Edited November 12, 2009 by Larry

[Rybags]

I think other stuff like enabling MMX and Pentium Pro options helps a bit.

Your motherboard and graphics card probably have some bearing too.

[xxl]

pc [email protected] - atariwinplus at 4100-5400 %

[tep392]

I have a question for you folks. I'm running Atari800WinPlus and it will run much faster than realtime when unthrottled, so my 3 year old desk top has more than enough power. But if set to run at 100%, it runs much slower than the real hardware. Are there some settings that I'm missing that will make it run at the same speed as a real 8-bit?

[+Stephen]

I have a question for you folks. I'm running Atari800WinPlus and it will run much faster than realtime when unthrottled, so my 3 year old desk top has more than enough power. But if set to run at 100%, it runs much slower than the real hardware. Are there some settings that I'm missing that will make it run at the same speed as a real 8-bit?

Odd that you mention this - I have a similar problem. Uncapped, I can get about 2700%, but when the speed is locked to 100%, it bounces between 100% and 80%, and the sound cuts out. It's very annoying. I have set the priority to high, tried both GDI and non-GDI display modes, etc. Nothing helps. To make matters worse, this problem doesn't always occur - sometime it runs fine.

 

Stephen Anderson

[sloopy]

i have seen this on my machine too, i always thought it was that fact 3 users are usually logged in and they have usually FF running with some sort of flash etc in them... i didnt really think about the fact it can run at 1500% unthrottled... machine has only 1.5G of ram so maybe i am running out? it is running a macroshaft OS (xp)

 

sloopy.

[flashjazzcat]

Wow... My (oldish socket 939) PC runs Windows 7 quite happily but I can only manage about 900%! Maybe it's time for an upgrade...

[Tezz]

I'd like to update my main system to a Corei5/i7 and one of the new P55 based motherboards which supports usb3.0, sata3.0 ddrIII ram etc. But, money's too tight for now though.

 

To answer the original question my Core2Duo laptop which I use way more than the more powerful desktop system gets roughly 1500% speed with Awin+4.0, with the host of other Windows stuff taking resources

Edited November 12, 2009 by Tezz

[+bf2k+]

A800winplus 3.1 in a 336x240 window gets anywhere from 2300% to 3000% on my Pentium 4 running XP. Same setup get 4000-5000% on a Core 2 Duo laptop.

[flashjazzcat]

Aha... it was the double sized window holding things back. If I run at 336x240, I get around 2300%.

[Tezz]

yea it's just under 4000% on the laptop with the small window size.

[flashjazzcat]

My PC's built on an Epox Nforce4 mobo with 2GB of DDR (!) and a socket 939 4200x2 clocked at 2.5GHz. Funnily enough, I have no overwhelming need to upgrade after nearly three years with the same set-up.

[+CharlieChaplin]

Well,

 

I use an old Intel Pentium 4 with 2,0 Ghz (1GB RAM, ATI Radeon 9600) under Win XP Home (with Service Packs 1, 2 and 3) and when running Atari800Win with the double sized window it gets a max. of 400-480%, when running with small size window it reaches 600-690%. Oh well, I always knew my PC is slow as hell, but now it shows how slowwww (on the other hand I remember using Atari 800 DOS version on my 386/33 Mhz and later 486/66 Mhz PC which had something between 30-60%)...

 

Luckily I want to buy a new(er) PC shortly before XMAS... -Andreas Koch.

[jacobus]

5928%

 

Core2Quad 2.83ghz

Windows 7 64bit

 

The emulator is running in XP emulation mode - I'll try it in pure XP.

[+remowilliams]

The emulator can run insanely fast, but for some reason under Win7 now it has intermittent jerking/stuttering issues that I can't seem to resolve. Didn't happen under Vista

[atariksi]

The emulator can run insanely fast, but for some reason under Win7 now it has intermittent jerking/stuttering issues that I can't seem to resolve. Didn't happen under Vista

 

You need to disable interrupts in your application and power management and go directly to the standard I/O ports (by-passing the drivers). That will also suspend any viruses and spyware running in your system and allow you to use your processor to its full potential.