Why chipRAM reduces even if I use cgx4 rtg???

[thomas]

The driver is ok. The Piccolo does not have a built-in scandoubler, so it probably cannot display the Amiga screen modes. To run Amiga-native games you have to connect a monitor to the Amiga video output.

[keropi]

nope thomas, I use a DCE SD/FF that connects to the pSD64.... all progs run OK, and about half about whdload games work OK. The other half, do what I described... those that do not work now, worked OK with my picassoII ...

[Bamiga2002]

@Keropi:


In S-S:

WBCtrl IMT=ANY

In workbench prefs (3.9):

"Images in: Graphics Memory"


Btw. have you tried to connect the SD-FF directly to your monitor (do games work then?)? I have a switchbox between BVision/SD-FF to change screen input.

[ant512]

Originally Posted by keropi

now with the piccoloSD64 the display in many games just stays black, nothing loads, and just waits for the quit key to be pressed... I don't blame excellent whdload, perhaps the p96 driver for ps64 is buggy...

See if you can locate the "KEEPAMIGAVIDEO" (or something similar) option in CyberGFX - this might be in the tooltype of the monitor driver. Try setting it to "FALSE" and see if you get the same problem with CGX as you did with P96 - I think this might be the issue (to save chipmem, RTG packages can switch off the native display; this is great until you try and use a native app that doesn't switch it back on again and just hangs).

If it does recreate the problem, you could try switching back to P96, finding the equivalent option, and making sure that the native display is permanently on.

[Bamiga2002]

My CGX prefs are as follows:


Environment:

ALERTEMU=1
CPUP2C=0
FORCHECHUNKY=0
HIDE15BIT=1
HIRESCRSR=1
KEEPAMIGAVIDEO=0
NOPASSTHROUGH=0
PLANES2FAST=1
SAVEMEM=0
SUPERGELS=1
SUPERLAYERS=1
USESEMAPHORES=1
WBPATSPEEDUP=1
56KHZAUDIO=0
NOMOUSERATIO=1

Tooltypes:

BITMAPCACHE=1
BOOTLOGO=1
PASSTHROUGH=1
(others=0)

[keropi]

well, with cgx I have no prob whatsoever, all work great, like it did with picassoII+p96.
the problem occures when replacing the picassoII with the pSD64... piccolo is just not compatible on my system, there was no options changed, all were the same as with the previous picassoII options...

[keropi]

ah, and connecting the monitor direclty to the amiga, makes no difference...

[Wepl]

Originally Posted by keropi

... I use a DCE SD/FF that connects to the pSD64.... all progs run OK, and about half about whdload games work OK. The other half, do what I described... those that do not work now, worked OK with my picassoII ...

Maybe its becasue some games do not set the ColorBurst bit in the bplcon0 register. If that's it there is nothing what WHDLoad can do. Each Slave must then be adapted seperately.
You can try to check if you have MMU (030/060) by setting SnoopAGA and ChkColBst. Should fail for the nonworking games.

[keropi]

yes wepl, but why do they work with cgx4? or when there is no p96 installed? I don't get it... does pSD64 need the ColorBurst bit with the p96? and cgx4 does not care about it?

[woody57]

Simply after the initial boot it RETARGETS graphics icons images etc to your fast ram , your video ram on your card does not get added visably to your total.

Secondly for those who use 3.9 The correct location of the draw for the RTG option is as below


Then Change this setting as below



Now I am not trying to be too simple here but it seems you may have missed what others in this thread have said

Will you all forgive my atrocious writting as I can draw but my hand shakes far too much to try and write and I wsn't go to make this over produced

I am after all senile

[keropi]

this option u descrive woodshed57 is one of the first thing I do when installing os3.9... for some reason it did not work, after a re-install its OK...
I miss p96...

[Bamiga2002]

Do you use this WarpOS prefs proggy?:
http://www.aminet.net/package.php?pa...c/WOSprefs.lha

Have you set the graphic address right (read WarpOS guide)?

Or has this got anything to do with the problem

[keropi]

I am not on ppc yet...

[Bamiga2002]

Originally Posted by keropi

I am not on ppc yet...

Uh oh , i posted that earlier one after a liquor shot or two . WarpOS is ppc-only...