26 February 2018, 17:38 | #1 |
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Alien Breed 3D 2 TKG
Hello all! Has anyone got AB3D2TKG running at a playable framerate? I know it can be done as I remember my brothers friend having a monster amiga back in the day and it ran very well. When I try the WHDLoad v1.1 it runs smooth for the intro but then in the main game it runs terrible. Talking 5fps if that.
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26 February 2018, 19:00 | #2 |
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AB3D2TKG runs very well on hardware with an 040 or better; on 060 at 66mhz+ if flies, especially if you use the patched version. In emulation make sure you are using jit and it will also run very smoothly indeed.
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26 February 2018, 22:03 | #3 |
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If you can get it to work the RTGMaster patch used to make it "come alive" on my A4000 with PicassoIV
http://aminet.net/package/game/patch/AB3DII_RTG http://aminet.net/package/driver/video/rtgmaster_user http://aminet.net/package/driver/audio/ahiusr_4.18 http://aminet.net/package/driver/video/Picasso96 Last edited by alexh; 26 February 2018 at 22:14. |
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I played it on 060 back in the day, then I tried it on 040 years later, then back to 060 and IMHO you need a 060 to enjoy it properly on an A1200 even with patched C2P routine. Disclaimer: Never tried the RTG version as I only had AGA; And these days, the Vampire is there to give you some new options to explore... |
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27 February 2018, 10:54 | #5 |
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You would have thought that WinUAE/FS-UAE should be able to get close to Vampire in terms of performance with a modern PC/Mac x86 behind it?
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27 February 2018, 13:19 | #6 |
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Ok, i employed a bit of artistic licence and 'very well' might be stretching it a bit but an 040 certainly was a lot more comfortable than the 28mhz 020s and 50mhz 030s we had back in the day and by Amiga standards full screen at 6 or 8 fps was 'very well'!
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27 February 2018, 16:37 | #7 |
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Some stuff for me to tinker with for sure.
I thought the same alexh to be honest. I thought I would be able to select A4000 high end settings and it smash it. I'm tempted to delete my FSUAE setup then start again just in case there was a setting I changed and forgot about. |
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I ran it back in the day on a Blizzard 1230-IV 50MHz, on an A1200. It ran very well indeed, at least 25FPS - enough for me to be able to finish it.
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Shrink the window and /or run it at 2x2, 2x1, 1x2, 1x1 So stating it ran at 25fps at a certain CPU should be accompanied by info about the graphical settings used to reach this frame rate to be of value |
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28 February 2018, 00:31 | #10 |
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Well, it was fullscreen, no window shrinkage. I may have run it at 2x2, but I'm not sure - it was a long time ago. I do recall having to run Breathless in 2x1 (or 1x2) in order to get a decent framerate, and I'm thinking that AB3D2 was more demanding than that.
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28 February 2018, 00:44 | #11 |
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Was this game sprite based or polygons?? I'm guessing Polygons??
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28 February 2018, 09:27 | #12 |
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For the level geometry, it's polygons but a lot of the non-static stuff is sprites. There are some polygon-based enemies but not very many.
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Ye, the TKG engine was noticably more advanced that Breathless. What made breathless look good IMO is that they chose fewer but more high res textures for the levels and the mapping simply looked better because it matched the simpler and more limiting level "geometry" better than TKG (but levels *are* visually repetitive). But breathless is really a simple Doom style engine whereas TKG was probably closer to Quake than Doom, more so than for example DukeNukem 3d.. and it had very irregular level geometry, nicely faked dynamic lightning, reflections...etc.. In Breathless for e.g. you don't even se your own weapon.. not even a sprite.. several of the weponons in TKG are actually true 3d objects (polygonal)... (Also, Andy Clitheroe was more or less solo on the TKG project at the end, and I doubt he felt like optimizing the hell out of it. Everyone who has looked at the code has said its "impossible" to do anything with it, so his priority was probably to just make it work and never look back. For example, it only took a short while before Aki Laukkanen (with help from Mikael Kalms and Jyrki Saarinen) posted a much more effective C2P routine on Aminet. Anyway, last time I saw TKG run the way we would have loved to see it run back in the day is on the Vampire2 with the latest core. ;-) Would be interesting to compare speed vs WinUAE running on a low end PC. Edit: (fixed credits for c2p routine) Last edited by eXeler0; 03 March 2018 at 19:03. Reason: Credits update |
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I have a GPD pocket here that might fit the bill
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Hey guys, I started from scratch with FSUAE and deleted and configs etc and tinkered with the settings and I had 8x8 AA enabled which was KILLING performance so I disabled that and also Enabled JIT Compiling. Now we're talking smooth 30fps+ if I go full screen but if I keep it in it's border we're talking 50fps+
I'm running that with A4000 and 3.1 kickstart. Thanks for the input on this. I love the amiga and grew up with it but never really tinkered. I think I may have to start educating myself with it lol |
02 March 2018, 10:36 | #17 |
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Did you use the RTG patch or is that the normal AGA mode?
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That was the normal AGA mode. I couldn't figure out how to get the RTG patch to run as I havn't installed workbench yet which I assume I need.
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03 March 2018, 17:29 | #19 |
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There is this :
http://aminet.net/package/game/patch/TKGTurboPatch It gives noticeable speed up to AB2 TKG, but it requires original (unpacthed) game files, so it is not useable in most of cases. I think that very few people has actually used/tested it. It doesn't even remove copy protection. Would it be possible that somebody could aply those patches to tkg's exe?? so that it would be possible whdloadize it? |
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Yea ok that was a bit vague, i had my own "nearly obsolete" third PC in mind.. But that wasnt really interesting, I guess what I actually wanted to say was "at what spec does a PC + WinUAE outperform a Vampire with Gold 2.7 core.
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