WinUAE 1.5.0 beta series

[Steve]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

Sorry but you didn't use latest beta.

Doh, you're right. lol. It does work ok using beta 9.

[OSH]

I can't save date/clock settings in Workbench prefs! The same bug appears in WinUAE 1.4.6 but in WinUAE 1.4.4 setup works.

EDIT
Sorry, it's my fault. I've used old configuration file from WinUAE 1.4.4 under 1.4.6...When I've created new configuration file, everything works OK...

[Toni Wilen]

More Picasso96 speed testing..

Run attached test version with following command line parameters and check p96speed results (RectFill() test is good enough, no need to run other tests)

-ddforcevram
-ddforceram
and without parameter
also compared with 1.4.6 if possible.

(frameskip setting is now ignored again)

[turrican3]

an the winner is : with some parts 1.5b9 -ddforceram or 1.4.6
ps: i hope you found the problem.

[Toni Wilen]

Originally Posted by turrican3

an the winner is : with some parts 1.5b9 -ddforceram or 1.4.6
ps: i hope you found the problem.

Thanks.

Argh... I guess I need to implement timing test and select the fastest option automatically.. For example on my test PCs VRAM option is faster..

[turrican3]

which difference between vram and ram ?
vram=video ram
ram= ddr ?
ps: always bug with mouse pointer (wrong color) and with filters, i suppose you know

[Toni Wilen]

Originally Posted by turrican3

which difference between vram and ram ?
vram=video ram
ram= ddr ?

vram = display card ram
ram = pc main memory

It seems some cards are slow when doing cpu writes directly to vram but also have quick system ram to vram blitter copy support.

ps: always bug with mouse pointer (wrong color) and with filters, i suppose you know

If you mean hires (lores is ok) hardware cursor has one wrong color: not an emulation problem. (and already discussed above)

What do you mean by filters?

[Mozzerfan]

I also had problems with the wrong color being used with a hires mouse
pointer in combination with the latest winuae beta.
Then I remembered some time ago I changed some tooltypes
in the uae monitor settings file. I restored the default values being used
in amiga forever 2005 and then restarted. After that my mouse pointer showed the
correct colors again. The tooltypes which are used in AF2005 are:
boardtype=uaegfx
softsprite=yes
ignoremask=yes
The rest is not used.
The only picasso96 env variable being used is planaronlydipfdbuf which is set
to yes.

Hope this helps.
Regards,
Lloyd

Ps Thanks for the new updates Toni.

[Steve]

I've been having a problem using beta 9. Its happened to me a few times now but I can't 100% pinpoint why it happens. Basically the bug has occured when playing a game in windowed mode. First it happened when playing Fantastic Dizzy CD32. If I attempt a switch to fullscreen mode, instead of switching to fullscreen, WinUAE just decides to hide itself. Using Ctrl-Alt-Delete you can see that the executable is still running in the background but its just vanished.

This happened to me again (about 10 minutes ago) when I was playing a HDF game in windowed mode. First I changed the resolution setting from 800x600 to 640x480 and then set the fullscreen option. When I pressed ok WinUAE just disappeared but was still running in the background which I had to close down using Ctrl-Alt-Delete.

UPDATE:
I can recreate this bug everytime now. It definitely occurs when switching from windowed mode to fullscreen. The bug only happens if you change the resolution setting first and then attempt to switch to fullscreen. Just changing to fullscreen from windowed mode works ok - Its when the resolution is changed first!

[turrican3]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

vram = display card ram
ram = pc main memory

It seems some cards are slow when doing cpu writes directly to vram but also have quick system ram to vram blitter copy support.



If you mean hires (lores is ok) hardware cursor has one wrong color: not an emulation problem. (and already discussed above)

What do you mean by filters?

by exemple if i set opengl the emulation doesn't boot, error message.

[turrican3]

Originally Posted by Mozzerfan

I also had problems with the wrong color being used with a hires mouse
pointer in combination with the latest winuae beta.
Then I remembered some time ago I changed some tooltypes
in the uae monitor settings file. I restored the default values being used
in amiga forever 2005 and then restarted. After that my mouse pointer showed the
correct colors again. The tooltypes which are used in AF2005 are:
boardtype=uaegfx
softsprite=yes
ignoremask=yes
The rest is not used.
The only picasso96 env variable being used is planaronlydipfdbuf which is set
to yes.

Hope this helps.
Regards,
Lloyd

Ps Thanks for the new updates Toni.

i think if i set softsprite=yes it will run slower

[Toni Wilen]

Originally Posted by turrican3

by exemple if i set opengl the emulation doesn't boot, error message.

Read beta changelogs: Do not use ogl/d3d until they are updated.

[turrican3]

ok, thank you toni for all these great improvements and for the pointer changed hires to lowres and all work fine.
thanks again

[turrican3]

sorry, toni
but my vram test was wrong, the error came from my bios : by default with my new motherboard it's set agp fastwrite disabled.
I'm sorry for the loose of time
ps: new p96test with -ddforcevram command.(all is fine now)

[Toni Wilen]

Originally Posted by turrican3

sorry, toni
but my vram test was wrong, the error came from my bios : by default with my new motherboard it's set agp fastwrite disabled.
I'm sorry for the loose of time
ps: new p96test with -ddforcevram command.(all is fine now)

Ok, you mean -ddforceram is still fast? and --ddforcevram is even faster as long as agp fastwrites are enabled?

[turrican3]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

Ok, you mean -ddforceram is still fast? and --ddforcevram is even faster as long as agp fastwrites are enabled?

yes that's right.
Sorry again

[Toni Wilen]

Beta 10: (attached, winuae.net is still broken, don't ask me)

- MOVEM is not weird in debugger anymore
- JIT RAM allocation failure path fixed (if Z3+RTG RAM fails to allocate, lower amount of RAM automatically and try again)
- limit internal sprite resolution to current display resolution (setting in display panel), should improve performance slightly in AGA modes if lots of sprites are used and display isn't shres
- harddrive detection crash if returned STORAGE_DEVICE_DESCRIPTOR was shorter than expected
- disable hardware sprite if uaegfx.card is old version without hardware sprite support and devs:monitors/info has softsprite=no
- adjusted DirectDraw surface allocation parameters, perhaps helps with P96Speed differences
- added -ddforcemode <mode> command line parameter, if you have slow P96Speed results compared to 1.4.6, try mode values from 1 to 3 and report results.

EDIT: it is -ddforcemode

[AmigaSurfer]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

Beta 10: (attached, winuae.net is still broken, don't ask me)

- adjusted DirectDraw surface allocation parameters, perhaps helps with P96Speed differences
- added -ddforceram <mode> command line parameter, if you have slow P96Speed results compared to 1.4.6, try mode values from 1 to 3 and report results.

I haven't downloaded/tested beta 9, but with this beta 10 the test draw() in high resolutions isn't anymore so ugly slow. It's now a little bit faster than 1.4.6.

Some tests are still slower. The ddforceram modes doesn't change much in the results.

WindowsXP SP2
ATI Radeon X1950Pro 512MB AGP
ATI Catalyst 8.3

 
 P96Speed 1.2 - ©`97-99 by Jens Langner
.-----------------------------------------.
| Computer......: UAE/AGA                 |
| CPU...........: 68040/7MHz              |
| OS / WB.......: V45.57/V45.3            |
| SetPatch......: V44.38                  |
| Chip/Fast.....: ~8.0MB/256.0MB          |
| Graphics card.: KEINE GRAFIKKARTE       |
| GFX system....: Picasso96               |
| Resolution....: 1920 x 1200 x 24        |
| Depth/Colors..: 16777215 colors         |
| Testlength....: 13                      |
+-----------------------------------------+
| Description...: WinUAE 1.4.6 uaegfx.card 2.0|
.============= SPEEDRESULTS ==============.
| RectFill()................   2776 op/s  |
| RectFill() Pattern........    354 op/s  |
| WritePixel().............. 1524208 op/s  |
| WriteChunkyPixels().......   2162 op/s  |
| WritePixelArray8()........   2164 op/s  |
| WritePixelLine8()......... 104009 op/s  |
| DrawEllipse().............  97210 op/s  |
| DrawCircle()..............  92217 op/s  |
| Draw()....................   8130 op/s  |
| Draw() Hor/Ver............  19011 op/s  |
| ScrollRaster() X.......... 208203 op/s  |
| ScrollRaster() Y.......... 224349 op/s  |
| PutText().................  57468 op/s  |
| BlitBitMap()..............  19442 op/s  |
| BlitBitMapRastPort()......  18879 op/s  |
| BitMapScale().............   1265 op/s  |
|--------------- Intuition ---------------|
| OpenWindow()..............   1035 op/s  |
| MoveWindow()..............   4806 op/s  |
| SizeWindow()..............   1409 op/s  |
| CON-Output................   1119 op/s  |
| ScreenToFront()...........     50 op/s  |
`========================================='
 
| Description...: WinUAE 1.5.0beta10      |
.============= SPEEDRESULTS ==============.
| RectFill()................   2421 op/s  |
| RectFill() Pattern........   1371 op/s  |
| WritePixel().............. 1588152 op/s  |
| WriteChunkyPixels().......   1364 op/s  |
| WritePixelArray8()........   1344 op/s  |
| WritePixelLine8().........  44768 op/s  |
| DrawEllipse().............  37334 op/s  |
| DrawCircle()..............  41566 op/s  |
| Draw()....................   9117 op/s  |
| Draw() Hor/Ver............  42008 op/s  |
| ScrollRaster() X..........  48192 op/s  |
| ScrollRaster() Y.......... 223000 op/s  |
| PutText().................  30237 op/s  |
| BlitBitMap()..............  12770 op/s  |
| BlitBitMapRastPort()......  12051 op/s  |
| BitMapScale().............   2217 op/s  |
|--------------- Intuition ---------------|
| OpenWindow()..............    649 op/s  |
| MoveWindow()..............   2734 op/s  |
| SizeWindow()..............   2244 op/s  |
| CON-Output................    610 op/s  |
| ScreenToFront()...........     49 op/s  |
`========================================='
 
| Description...: WinUAE 1.5.0beta10 -ddforceram 1|
.============= SPEEDRESULTS ==============.
| RectFill()................   2489 op/s  |
| RectFill() Pattern........   1512 op/s  |
| WritePixel().............. 1594133 op/s  |
| WriteChunkyPixels().......   1387 op/s  |
| WritePixelArray8()........   1384 op/s  |
| WritePixelLine8().........  45500 op/s  |
| DrawEllipse().............  44829 op/s  |
| DrawCircle()..............  44750 op/s  |
| Draw()....................   9303 op/s  |
| Draw() Hor/Ver............  41766 op/s  |
| ScrollRaster() X..........  54098 op/s  |
| ScrollRaster() Y.......... 207997 op/s  |
| PutText().................  29059 op/s  |
| BlitBitMap()..............  28833 op/s  |
| BlitBitMapRastPort()......  12071 op/s  |
| BitMapScale().............   2177 op/s  |
|--------------- Intuition ---------------|
| OpenWindow()..............    642 op/s  |
| MoveWindow()..............   2731 op/s  |
| SizeWindow()..............   2206 op/s  |
| CON-Output................    550 op/s  |
| ScreenToFront()...........     50 op/s  |
`========================================='
 
| Description...: WinUAE 1.5.0beta10 -ddforceram 2|
.============= SPEEDRESULTS ==============.
| RectFill()................   2262 op/s  |
| RectFill() Pattern........   1449 op/s  |
| WritePixel().............. 1615665 op/s  |
| WriteChunkyPixels().......   1415 op/s  |
| WritePixelArray8()........   1435 op/s  |
| WritePixelLine8().........  45782 op/s  |
| DrawEllipse().............  40968 op/s  |
| DrawCircle()..............  42300 op/s  |
| Draw()....................   9531 op/s  |
| Draw() Hor/Ver............  42257 op/s  |
| ScrollRaster() X..........  51483 op/s  |
| ScrollRaster() Y.......... 206966 op/s  |
| PutText().................  32402 op/s  |
| BlitBitMap()..............  12967 op/s  |
| BlitBitMapRastPort()......  12389 op/s  |
| BitMapScale().............   2187 op/s  |
|--------------- Intuition ---------------|
| OpenWindow()..............    652 op/s  |
| MoveWindow()..............   2373 op/s  |
| SizeWindow()..............   2617 op/s  |
| CON-Output................    629 op/s  |
| ScreenToFront()...........     50 op/s  |
`========================================='
 
| Description...: WinUAE 1.5.0beta10 -ddforceram 3|
.============= SPEEDRESULTS ==============.
| RectFill()................   2517 op/s  |
| RectFill() Pattern........   1490 op/s  |
| WritePixel().............. 1657201 op/s  |
| WriteChunkyPixels().......   1389 op/s  |
| WritePixelArray8()........   1398 op/s  |
| WritePixelLine8().........  46577 op/s  |
| DrawEllipse().............  39912 op/s  |
| DrawCircle()..............  46892 op/s  |
| Draw()....................   9428 op/s  |
| Draw() Hor/Ver............  42627 op/s  |
| ScrollRaster() X..........  46605 op/s  |
| ScrollRaster() Y.......... 228674 op/s  |
| PutText().................  31674 op/s  |
| BlitBitMap()..............  12072 op/s  |
| BlitBitMapRastPort()......  11728 op/s  |
| BitMapScale().............   2186 op/s  |
|--------------- Intuition ---------------|
| OpenWindow()..............    661 op/s  |
| MoveWindow()..............   3259 op/s  |
| SizeWindow()..............   2434 op/s  |
| CON-Output................    622 op/s  |
| ScreenToFront()...........     49 op/s  |
`========================================='

[Toni Wilen]

Originally Posted by AmigaSurfer

Some tests are still slower. The ddforceram modes doesn't change much in the results.

Oops, it is -ddforcemode not -ddforceram, sorry. (last minute change..)

[Ian]

Here are my test results using all modes.

Again, for the benefit of the tape.

Vista Ultimate x64
Athlon x64 3500
2 x 1gb PC3200 DDR
ATI x1950 xt 256mb


Latest drivers all installed