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Offline pondosinatraTopic starter

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Quake
« on: May 22, 2011, 11:35:59 PM »
Ok, so I managed to get Quake, and just installed it.

My setup is an A2500 with a Blizzard 060 card, 32mb of ram, a Picasso II+ vid card and OS 3.9.

Quake runs ok but is really only playable at 320x240.

My question - I also have a Picasso 4. How much more would it improve things? Ie. would I be able to play at 640x480?
 

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Re: Quake
« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2011, 11:46:05 PM »
Give it more RAM. And yes, a Picasso 4 will speed things up. I have a Cybervision 643D and I can do 800x600 on my 060, I think I run it in a 15bit mode.
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Re: Quake
« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2011, 12:55:42 AM »
I belive that you are playing it with A4000? It has a Zorro III slots, when A2000 has a Zorro II. Zorro II limits speed, so I belive that he woun't get big speedup with picasso 4.

I would appreciate if you could tell what kind of FPS you get with Picasso II and Picasso 4?? Start new game, press ¨to get console and write to it timerefresh

With 060 66mhz I get 11 fps with Spectrum 16/24 and 14 fps with AGA. Screen size is 320x200 and 100%. Spectrum is quite much same card than Picasso II.

My system is A1200 with Micronic Zorro II extender. Zorro II bus speed limit is about 4,2mb/s when with AGA it is 5mb/s. Zorro III is about 19mb/s???

Do you have found Clickbooms 060 specified exe? It gives you 2fps more, compared to original exe.

Here some test I've made

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=57812
« Last Edit: May 23, 2011, 12:57:43 AM by utri007 »
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Re: Quake
« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2011, 01:09:01 AM »
I got 6.4 FPS....I'll swap in the Pic4 and see what I get tomorrow.
 

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Re: Quake
« Reply #4 on: May 23, 2011, 01:09:25 AM »
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With 060 66mhz I get 11 fps with Spectrum 16/24 and 14 fps with AGA.

Im somewhat surprised you get more FPS with AGA. I thought it was supposed to be slower? Anything obvious I am missing?
 

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Re: Quake
« Reply #5 on: May 23, 2011, 01:35:02 AM »
Hi,

I play Quake at 35 to 41 frames per second using Cloanto's Amiga Forever at the resolution, I believe 1280 by 1024.

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Re: Quake
« Reply #6 on: May 23, 2011, 02:11:14 AM »
At 320x200, you're limited by the CPU, graphics card vs AGA and Zorro bus have very little influence. In fact, my A2000 and A4000, both with 060/50 and Picasso IV performed _identical_ in the timedemo benchmarks. At 66MHz the 4000 was 1 FPS quicker IIRC.

You might notice a few FPS difference at higher resolutions, but they are generally unplayable anyway. 640x480 is somewhat doable if the screensize is set very small.
 

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Re: Quake
« Reply #7 on: May 23, 2011, 06:44:12 AM »
Runequest: It is because Zorro vs. AGA bus speed. 4,2 vs. 5

With Mediator it si possible to get quite much higher FSP with quake I belive?

Try to find Clickboom Quake060.exe it is 2 fps faster than original exe
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Re: Quake
« Reply #8 on: May 23, 2011, 06:54:46 AM »
Man, i have only 6 FPS on A1200 060@50MHz and AGA. Don't know the resolution but screensize is set to one level below the max.
It is rather playable though.
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Re: Quake
« Reply #9 on: May 23, 2011, 10:57:52 AM »
Xanxi: so do you have clickboom latest 060 exe? What pathces are you running?

You get 6 fps in startscreen when you type timerefresh to console? Reolution 320x200 and screen size 2 steps below max? Screen depth 8bit?

Damion: Is it possible that you have forced your Picasso 4 to Zorro II with jumper? And actually used it with your A4000 as a Zorro II card?
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Re: Quake
« Reply #10 on: May 23, 2011, 01:48:44 PM »
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Damion: Is it possible that you have forced your Picasso 4 to Zorro II with jumper? And actually used it with your A4000 as a Zorro II card?


Nope. Results were where they should have been, around 9 FPS at 50MHz and 12 at 66MHz, using Clickbom Quake. It does help that the Picasso IV uses the Z2 bus very efficiently - 3.5 MB/s for writes (bustest), around the maximum possible. Other cards (the CV64/3D for example) are quite a bit slower. I'm sure there's a greater difference at higher resolutions, but I never tried.
 

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Re: Quake
« Reply #11 on: May 23, 2011, 05:48:53 PM »
More FPU capacity? and polygon/texture processing capable graphics card?
 

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Re: Quake
« Reply #12 on: May 23, 2011, 06:05:42 PM »
Quote from: pan1k;639590
Give it more RAM. And yes, a Picasso 4 will speed things up. I have a Cybervision 643D and I can do 800x600 on my 060, I think I run it in a 15bit mode.

Are you sure this is right? I can hardly run the game at playable speed in that resolution yet Im using the PPC/Warp3D version.
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Re: Quake
« Reply #13 on: May 23, 2011, 07:06:47 PM »
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Xanxi: so do you have clickboom latest 060 exe? What pathces are you running?

You get 6 fps in startscreen when you type timerefresh to console? Reolution 320x200 and screen size 2 steps below max? Screen depth 8bit?

Damion: Is it possible that you have forced your Picasso 4 to Zorro II with jumper? And actually used it with your A4000 as a Zorro II card?


I have Quake68k port for AmigaOS3.X by Frank Will and Steffen Hauser, version 2.30.
This runs with 040 or 060, but is really made for the 060.
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Re: Quake
« Reply #14 on: May 23, 2011, 07:53:21 PM »
Quote from: pan1k;639590
Give it more RAM. And yes, a Picasso 4 will speed things up. I have a Cybervision 643D and I can do 800x600 on my 060, I think I run it in a 15bit mode.


Wait, what? You are running a 68060, software-rendered version of quake, in 15-bit at 800x600 ?

Are you sure?
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