WHDLoad saves too slow

coze · 03 May 2009, 03:36

hello there most reverred whdload devs,
here I am again with a humble request. I'm trying to play Champions of Krynn whdload, on an A3000. The game runs all fine and stuff, but saves take really long time which kills most of the fun cause you need to save often with these kind of games. If I understand correctly, during the saves, whdload traps some information which the game is trying to write to disk, and then writes it itself using OS routines. Is there some way to increase the size of this 'buffer' ?

if it could take all the info in one fell swoop, saves could be much faster without this OS switching.

alexh · 03 May 2009, 07:53

Check the tool types of the slave's icon and S/WHDLoad.prefs to make sure nothing strange is set in there.

i.e. NoWriteCache

musashi5150 · 03 May 2009, 09:54

If this is the case and you start using the write cache remember that WHDLoad will then write your saves to disk when you quit back to WB.

Rixa · 03 May 2009, 10:20

Quote:

Originally Posted by coze

I'm trying to play Champions of Krynn whdload, on an A3000. The game runs all fine and stuff, but saves take really long time which kills most of the fun

Did you read the README accompanying the install? It explains this and doesn't sound like a fix is forthcoming.

I have a bunch of memory so every time I started playing that game I copied the folder onto my RAM: disk and set the tooltype WriteDelay=0 to speed up the saves. Then when I was finished playing I synced the save directory to disk to keep it over poweroffs.

coze · 03 May 2009, 11:15

tataaa ... ok that explains it, didn't read the readme. thanks !

03 May 2009, 03:36	#1
coze hastala vista winny vista Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: mt fuji Age: 46 Posts: 1,335	WHDLoad saves too slow hello there most reverred whdload devs, here I am again with a humble request. I'm trying to play Champions of Krynn whdload, on an A3000. The game runs all fine and stuff, but saves take really long time which kills most of the fun cause you need to save often with these kind of games. If I understand correctly, during the saves, whdload traps some information which the game is trying to write to disk, and then writes it itself using OS routines. Is there some way to increase the size of this 'buffer' ? if it could take all the info in one fell swoop, saves could be much faster without this OS switching.

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03 May 2009, 07:53	#2
alexh Thalion Webshrine Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Oxford Posts: 14,400	Check the tool types of the slave's icon and S/WHDLoad.prefs to make sure nothing strange is set in there. i.e. NoWriteCache

03 May 2009, 09:54	#3
musashi5150 move.w #$4489,$dff07e Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Norfolk, UK Age: 42 Posts: 2,351	If this is the case and you start using the write cache remember that WHDLoad will then write your saves to disk when you quit back to WB.

03 May 2009, 11:15	#5
coze hastala vista winny vista Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: mt fuji Age: 46 Posts: 1,335	tataaa ... ok that explains it, didn't read the readme. thanks !

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