WinUAE 0.8.21R3 released

[Toni Wilen]

I uploaded DX SDK refreshrate example to the zone.

McLane, could you test if it works with W98SE? (WinUAE refresh rate support bugs are always possible because DX SDK isn't very clear...)

[Mclane]

Originally posted by Toni Wilen
I uploaded DX SDK refreshrate example to the zone.

McLane, could you test if it works with W98SE? (WinUAE refresh rate support bugs are always possible because DX SDK isn't very clear...)

Toni it gives an error 98SE:

Testing cannot proceed

This driver does not support the refresh rate feature of directdraw. The test cannot be performed.


On a related front I installed XP for a dual boot and the lovely Vsync then jumps into action nicely under XP..

And very nice it is too :-)

[Belgarath]

no vsync under win me

updated exe has fixed the speed problems for me though

[Mclane]

Originally posted by Mclane

Toni it gives an error 98SE:

And error IN 98SE ...Oops

[andreas]

Anyone with a computer slower than an Athlon XP1800+ checked it??

Make sure that you've got your irony-detectors turned on, guys!

[Twistin'Ghost]

I'm rather curious about which range of systems are being used by the beta team. If they are mostly using high-end XP-based systems, this will certainly be a problem in the future for all new releases (unless everybody upgrades/downgrades).

[sarek2k]

I checked Winuae 0.8.21-R3 I tried Banshee AGA and Sound/Music was bad cranked up sound buffer but still the same!
Got the Slowdown fix too

I can't say as i ran the game before so have no benchmark.

My system Duron 850 ( for the moment) 396mb, Geforce 2 etc
Win98se

Getting Athlon 1.2/4 tommorow will test on that

(Have 2 puters one is short a processor at the moment)

[andreas]

With Technological Death, there were no sound break ups, but I have noticed a bug with centring in 640x480 with correct aspect

YES!!
Centering is broken, even though you don't set correct aspect at all.
It's so odd: Bernd told me to use 640x480 mode if I want centering, but some games would only show the *whole* playing screen if you use 800x600! Don't forget the CD32 boot-up animation as well - exactly the same thing. And turning centering on shows that notorious clipping stripe.
Please bug Bernd to fix this, I'm not going to do this any longer because I'm utterly fed up with it. He simply doesn't consider it important!

[ethylene]

andreas:

Easy there!

I'm curious to know what kind of videocard you have.

A really great way to view the whole screen AND get rid of any clipping stripe is to add these resolutions to your registry:

16 bit, 720x576, 50Hz (for PAL games)
16 bit, 720x480, 60Hz (for NTSC games)

www.entechtaiwan.com/ makes a killer utility called Powerstrip. It can add these resolutions for you through GUI dialogs.

I hate to see someone so upset when there's such an elegant solution!

[andreas]

Thanks for your efforts to cheer me up again

OK, I'm gonna try to "implement" the Overscan settings.
You don't have any explanation why this works in WinFellow without having to use Powerstrip, do you?

BTW, see my experiment with both WinUAE and WinFellow at a time for comparison: http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3682

[@UAE]

Hi all
when enabling the Vsync .. the speed becomes mad ... very high speed ..
but very smooth scroll ..
i am using xp with intel 1000 ..

i tried all refresh rates .. but same problem ..

Does selecting "Match A500 speed" help?

[BippyM]

Ok... What am I doing wrong??

I cannot get the VSync option enabled, I am using XP on a 1100 Thunderbird with a Ge-force2 MX400 GFX Card.

I have directx8 installed (obviously)

how do I enable directx vsync?

Cheers

Originally posted by Paul
I have just noticed that when closing Winuae I get a blank button on the task bar (see pic)

WinUAE always gives me those blanks whenever switching screenmodes. The same problem occurs in some other programs, like Quake2.

For Toni: here's a link to some code that fixes the problem in Quake2.exe. Perhaps it can also help in WinUAE?:
http://www.quakesrc.org/?Page=tutori...ix/taskbar.txt

[Toni Wilen]

when enabling the Vsync .. the speed becomes mad ... very high speed

You need to select either 50Hz or 100Hz refreshrate for correct speed. (Read the readme.txt...)

Toni is there a way to implement an automatic frame skip option so no matter what refresh rate you use the scrolling will be perfect and everything runs at the right speed. They have this option in STEEM (I will probably get flamed for mentioning this emulator here) the ATARIST emu.

[Toni Wilen]

here's a link to some code that fixes the problem in Quake2.exe.

WinUAE already does ShowWindow(handle,SW_HIDE) before DestroyWindow(). Does blank taskbar icons also appear in R2 or only in R3?

implement an automatic frame skip option so no matter what refresh rate you use the scrolling will be perfect and everything runs at the right speed

How can scrolling be perfect if frames are skipped? All frames are needed for 100% smooth scrolling.

You probably meant option that drops frames if display emulation does not have enough time to render all frames?

I have tried to implement this kind of automatic frame skip but I never managed to make it work very well...

[Chuckles]

Originally posted by Toni Wilen


Does blank taskbar icons also appear in R2 or only in R3?

I can't speak for anyone else, but I've been getting the blank taskbar icons for a long time - even prior to 0.8.21Ranything. When I've just spent a fair amount of time fiddling with settings in my various configs, I'll often find that my taskbar has lots of them, each of which quickly disappears when you select it with the mouse.

Hello,

where is the right place to report WinUAE bugs?

A few minutes ago I installed the new WinUAE 0.8.21R3 and the update.
But with this Version some keys aren't working anymore.
For example all the cursor keys and the right shift key isn't working.
With WinUAE 0.8.21R2 all keys are working o.k.

//admin: please don't use direct signature in your post, configure your UserCP instead.

Go to the Game and I/O ports tab and check if any "Keyboard Layout" settings are enabled. Sounds to me like you are using a keyboard layout preset for joystick emulation.