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- From: Scott Stegura[SMTP:scottuf@grove.ufl.edu]
- Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 1996 12:54 PM
- To: Mat Hostetter
- Cc: executor@ardi.com
- Subject: Re: executor & windows95
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- Mat Hostetter wrote:
- >=20
- > >>>>> "Scott" =3D=3D Scott Stegura <scottuf@grove.ufl.edu> writes:
- >=20
- > Scott> Well, as an experiment I tried running Executor under
- > Scott> MS-DOS Mode and I was surprised because it ran almost twice
- > Scott> as fast!!! The video was a lot faster and the CPU jumped
- > Scott> from a 6 to a 12 on my 486DX2-66. Well, I guess from now
- > Scott> on I'll run directly under DOS instead of Win95. I'm
- > Scott> really surprised at how much of a drain Win95 is on my
- > Scott> system.
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- > That's interesting.
- >=20
- > Video should be faster (if you've got UniVBE) because we can directly
- > access the linear frame buffer under DOS. Still, I wouldn't think
- > that the CPU number should slow down.
- >=20
- > Can you try:
- >=20
- > executor -nosound -oldtimer
- >=20
- > and see how fast it is under Win95? Thanks!
- >=20
- > -Mat
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- The -oldtimer option helped speed things up some. The -nosound option=20
- didn't help though. And I am running UniVBE 5.1a. However, things=20
- still weren't up to DOS speed so I think I'll stick with the hassle of=20
- exiting windows to go to DOS mode for now. Hopefully V3.00 (or maybe=20
- V2.1) will be fully Win95 compatable.
-
- Scott Stegura
-
- I have the same problem you do with speed in '95. Well sorta...
- Sometimes I can get it to run as fast as DOS when I use a simple command =
- line like:
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- executor -nosplash -memory 4M
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- This command started working as fast as DOS around the time I changed my =
- serial mouse to a PS/2 port mouse. I am not certain though.
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- I noticed when running in a small amount of RAM if you continue to run =
- executor, exit, then reload the numbers get less and less. So when I =
- test different command lines like Matt suggests I always reboot. =20
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- I took the liberty to use the command switches -nosound -oldtimer to see =
- what I came up with. Below are my findings they are sorta interesting.
- =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
- =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
- =3D=3D=3D
- Specs:
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- i486DX4100, 8M ram, Cirrus Logic (CL-GD5428) 1MB VBE 1.2
- Using executor 1.99q8 and Univbe 5.1a
- 2.0 VBE extentions, Linear framebuffer loacated at 14Mb
- Speedometer 3.23
- Standard command line: Executor -nosplash -memory 4M
- =09
- CPU Graph Disk C: Math Bench avg Color avg
- Dos* 11.456 7.701 3.707 26.614 17.375 1.674
- -nosound 12.627 8.670 3.945 27.647 19.489 1.859
- -oldtimer 13.206 9.382 3.827 29.395 21.067 1.972
- both** 14.108 10.328 3.915 34.067 22.637 2.165
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- Win95*** 11.456 7.613 4.160 26.250 17.108 1.678
- -nosound 8.357 5.231 5.587 13.815 10.858 1.187
- -oldtimer 11.768 7.657 6.865 26.468 17.199 1.687
- both** 13.106 8.902 3.698 29.102 19.711 1.907
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- *Used Smartdrv: smartdrv a b- c d 2048 0
- **Executor -nosplash -memory 4M -nosound -oldtimer
- ***Only Explorer was loaded with Executor
- =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
- =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
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- For some reason Win95 does not like -nosound. The really odd thing is =
- when both -nosound and -oldtimer are in use, it is faster then each one =
- individualy. Especially when -nosound is slower then executor running =
- with just -nosplash -memory 4M.
-
- Looking at these results gives me a question. Why isn't -oldtimer part =
- of the default settings when it makes the emulation run much faster?? =
- What are the pluses and minus of using -oldtimer?
-
- Well anyways I hope this gets to all of you cuzz this took forever :)
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- Enjoy,
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- Glenn R. Keyser=09
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