Alien breed 3d II ported to another platform

[alexh]

If you have a gfx card you can try the RTG master patch which increases the speed quite a bit. The frame-rate limitation is quite tied to the Chip-RAM bus.

[alexh]

NOTE THIS

There is new wonderfull WHDLoad version of AB2-TKG and it is really fast. It is fully playable even with 030.

The guy above posted this :

The new whdload install done by PSygore do not help on speed[in WinUAE]...however...now it can save keys configuration

[alexh]

If you have a gfx card you can try the RTG master patch which increases the speed quite a bit. The frame-rate limitation is quite tied to the Chip-RAM bus.

It should fly on ReplayArcade and Natami then...

Doubt it, it doesn't scale very well.

CPU yes but change the chip RAM bus and AGA timings and it will fly.

Should be possible to do the same with WinUAE by playing with the chipset timing slider.

[alexh]

how fast have you managed to get it going?

The CPU and CHIPSET slider doesn't work how I thought it might. It is unusable for this game.

Standard A1200 config.
030 without JIT or FPU
Fastest possible CPU but maintain chipset timing
Instant Blitter

I get 19fps in full screen (press numeric enter) at 1:1 (as reported by the game, WHDLoad tool type CONFIG2=1)

Looks about this speed :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nY8nNNNBfE

[alexh]

Alien breed 3d2 is a cpu intensive game
ram speed or any other trick will not help in any way

You sure? If it was just that then I thought I'd get a better frame rate than I do in WinUAE? I have a fast PC.

I reach about 30-40 fps on my PC (phenom II x2 555 3.2ghz) full screen that's smooth....not perfect like if reached constant 50fps

Where does that number come from? Is that the FPS counter built into the WHDload version of the game?

My CPU is rated much higher (6738) than yours (1977) in passmark and I don't get that (unless I am close to a wall).

[alexh]

Are you sure you're in 1:1 full screen mode? I can get higher frame rates if I don't use 1:1 full screen mode.

Once the game starts you need to press ENTER on the numeric keypad and press () on numeric keypad (which you have to specially MAP in WinUAE) to switch between 1:1 1:2 2:2 modes

I'm using a MUCH later version of WinUAE so I'll try 1.6.0

[Edit: Hmmm cannot seem to get ENTER on the numeric keypad to work on 1.6.0]

BTW: Instead of saying "benchmark x is a big joke" why not recommend something else?

[alexh]

USB. Numeric ENTER works fine for me in the newer version of WinUAE, doesn't want to work in 1.6.0 but it doesn't matter.

() numeric keys (to change modes) are not mapped in either version of WinUAE