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Major speed improvements in 0121u1?
Avrus:
--- Quote ---Optimized the hyperstone core, gaining ~50% speed improvement in most
games. Implemented clock prescaling and corrected interrupt priority
handling. Then fixed the clock speeds on the most of the games and
killed most of the speed gains in quite a number of them. (Sorry!)
[Aaron Giles]
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http://mamedev.org/updates/whatsnew_0121u1.txt
50%. Holy crap. That's a lot. Imagine if 50% of your living room was filled with arcade cabinets...
:applaud:
fjl:
I'd like to see the list of all these games.
Hoopz:
--- Quote ---Then fixed the clock speeds on the most of the games and
killed most of the speed gains in quite a number of them. (Sorry!)
[Aaron Giles]
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Since most of the speed gains were eliminated, it may not matter. :dunno
You can search for the games on Maws, efjayel, by searching by the CPU. We know you won't, but you can.
From what I found, I think these are the CPU's affected:
E1-16T
E1-16XT
E1-32N
E1-32T
E1-32XN
E1-32XT
http://www.mameworld.net/maws/
Haze:
--- Quote from: HooPZ on November 23, 2007, 09:31:14 am ---
--- Quote ---Then fixed the clock speeds on the most of the games and
killed most of the speed gains in quite a number of them. (Sorry!)
[Aaron Giles]
--- End quote ---
Since most of the speed gains were eliminated, it may not matter. :dunno
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I don't really know why Aaron apologizes for killing the speed gains to be honest, they *are* significantly faster in u1.
the games are mostly korean games, a lot of them still don't have sound tho because they use weird / undocumented sound chips.
The majority of the eolith titles (crazywar, raccoon world, klondike plus, land breaker, hidden catch 1/2, puzzle king dance and puzzle) as well as a couple of others ( (se)x-files, king of dynast gear) are much faster now, and all now run at >100% speed on my 3.5ghz C2D.
The other hyperstone games, such as vamphalf, coolmini, lup lup puzzle, mission craft, wyvern wing etc. are also faster, so may now run better on a lower spec machine.
it's a good speedup for what was one of the slowest CPU cores in MAME however you look at it. The only game that's actually slower in u1 is mosaicf2 (fun game actually..) but that will be fixed in u2.
The limenko games (super bubble 2003, legend of heroes etc.) and g-stream still have some problems with the games running at half speed, even if the framerate is displaying 100%, those are still being looked at, they're easy to hack right (double the interrupt rate), but it would be good to find a proper solution.
Hoopz:
I wasn't trying to imply that it wasn't faster. I simply don't know how they will do so thats why I had the shrugging emoticon.
Thanks for the info Haze.