1. IMPORTANT TO ALL
- Posted by Lucius L Hilley III <luciuslhilleyiii at JUNO.COM> Jun 30, 1997
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- Last edited Jul 01, 1997
TO ALL when telling timings or rates or in this case frames per second please state your machine specs. Processor: Cyrix 686 Speed: 200 Mhz Memory: 32 Meg Cyrix 686 200Mhz I believe is roughly equal to a Pentium 166Mhz...........NOT Sure. TO RALF You included frames per second (fps) BUT you didn't state your machine specs. I have a friend that has 486 100Mhz with 16MB or 32MB of memory. I have a Cyrix 686 200Mhz with 32MB of memory Another friend has a Pentium 100Mhz with 16MB memory What are your specs so that we can at least ESTIMATE our speeds. IF My 686 gets 1000 fps THEN My friends 486 gets about 500 fps BIG DIFFERENCE. If I get 76 fps he gets about 38 fps. IF yours is a Pentium 200Mhz and gets 75 fps then mine SHOULD get about 66 fps to 70 fps HENCE my friends will get 33 fps to 35 fps. THIS means a 486 66Mhz will probably be to slow Especially if it only has 4MB of memory. I imagine that a machine of that spec. would get about 15 to 20 fps. THIS IS IMPORTANT --Lucius Lamar Hilley III -- E-mail at luciuslhilleyiii at juno.com -- I support transferring of files less than 60K. -- I can Decode both UU and Base64 format.
2. Re: IMPORTANT TO ALL
- Posted by Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen <nieuwen at POP.XS4ALL.NL> Jul 01, 1997
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> TO RALF > > You included frames per second (fps) BUT > you didn't state your machine specs. > I have a friend that has 486 100Mhz > with 16MB or 32MB of memory. > I have a Cyrix 686 200Mhz with 32MB of memory > Another friend has a Pentium 100Mhz with 16MB memory > What are your specs so that we can at least ESTIMATE > our speeds. > IF My 686 gets 1000 fps THEN > My friends 486 gets about 500 fps > > BIG DIFFERENCE. True, it was run on a P-60 with 24-mb of ram with win95 loaded.. however the memory doesn't mean much unless you use more than available, if you do so an dmemory could not be allocated.. image type is loaded... so routines will still work but a bit slower (2d-sequence screen is slower than memory-screen) > If I get 76 fps he gets about 38 fps. > IF yours is a Pentium 200Mhz and gets 75 fps then > mine SHOULD get about 66 fps to 70 fps HENCE > my friends will get 33 fps to 35 fps. > THIS means a 486 66Mhz will probably be to slow > Especially if it only has 4MB of memory. > I imagine that a machine of that spec. would get about > 15 to 20 fps. Not exactly... most is affected by cache & video-card, if you have a slow video card it will go about twice as slow, for a pixel here and there my video card seems to cache it too.. but for large things my video card's memory is slower than real memory... although i guess my video card is pretty quick, it's a Cirrus (PCI). About the memory, when i start dos prompt in win95 i get about 20 meg free memory, while my quite windows swap file is about 50 MEG!! The video things still require far more cpu then the rest of my code... so the video card says more than the type of computer... My father has an portable p-120 with 12 mb of ram, the racing game Screamer runs in slow-motion, the inbuilt video support is SLOW (with his and many other portables), this is my point here. Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen nieuwen at xs4all.nl