Lionheart slowdown

[daznic]

Running Lionheart on A600HD from floppies, I`m getting a fair bit of slowdown when lots of action is on screen - is this normal ?

BTW, I have to remove my PCMCIA 2mb RAM, game will not load with it in, so it`s a 1mb A600

[alexh]

The game is designed to use 512Kbytes fast RAM (FYI Fast RAM has it's name because the CPU can access it whilst the gfx chips are rendering the screen in chip RAM). Without it it has to somehow emulate it (on the disk there is this "fake fast" program). I am not surprised this game slows down without it.

Strange that it doesn't work with your RAM upgrade. I have it working here (but with a non PCMCIA RAM upgrade).

Might be worth installing the WHDload version if you have a HD in your A600??

http://www.whdload.de/games/Lionheart.html

This will install using the images on the Thalion Webshrine as Lionheart is unprotected.

[s2325]

I had no slowdowns on my A500 or so small I never noticed.

[daznic]

Originally Posted by alexh

The game is designed to use 512Kbytes fast RAM (FYI Fast RAM has it's name because the CPU can access it whilst the gfx chips are rendering the screen in chip RAM). Without it it has to somehow emulate it (on the disk there is this "fake fast" program). I am not surprised this game slows down without it.

Strange that it doesn't work with your RAM upgrade. I have it working here (but with a non PCMCIA RAM upgrade).

Might be worth installing the WHDload version if you have a HD in your A600??

http://www.whdload.de/games/Lionheart.html

This will install using the images on the Thalion Webshrine as Lionheart is unprotected.

Thanks i will try that, will my 1mb plus 2mb pcmcia be enough to run it through whdload ?
strange though i did not expect any slowdown !

[alexh]

Should be enough according to the readme which says you need 512Kbyte Chip + 1.5Mbyte other mem

I guess the Pre-load option may not fully work as you would need something like 6Mbytes to pre-load all four disks.

You could also try the offical Thalion HD installer which is on the original disks (just insert disk 1 under workbench)

The game has slowdowns on a real A500 with 512 kb of slow RAM. Nothing strange so. Opened question : is this a way to make the slowdowns disappear by upgrading something ? On my A1200 i have the slowdowns too if my memory is good, but i don't know if the game is using the A1200 hardware.