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Title: Is my PC fast enough for WinUAE?
Post by: Amiduffer on November 21, 2007, 10:49:49 PM

I have an intel PC running WinXP, P3, 930mhz, 512k ram.

My main interest would be to run ImageFX and the Amiga version of Imagine3D, since I don't really have much time for games. Others have reported that both IFX and I3D run super on WinUAE and make them really worthwhile since they speed up the processing way above what my 040 Ami can do. So, is my PC fast enough. The UAE website said that his 600mhz Celeron was unable to handle anything, and that his 1.6gig PC was tolerable (at least for games). Since I'm in the middle, is it worth the trouble of installing it?

Title: Re: Is my PC fast enough for WinUAE?
Post by: Damion on November 21, 2007, 10:53:22 PM

I would think that with the JIT enabled it should run reasonably well. I say give it a whirl. :-)

 

Title: Re: Is my PC fast enough for WinUAE?
Post by: crystall on November 21, 2007, 11:07:04 PM

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Amiduffer wrote:
I have an intel PC running WinXP, P3, 930mhz, 512k ram.

My main interest would be to run ImageFX and the Amiga version of Imagine3D, since I don't really have much time for games.

Imagine & the like will simply fly using WinUAE on your machine compared to a 040. It's certainly worth the try.

Title: Re: Is my PC fast enough for WinUAE?
Post by: rkauer on November 21, 2007, 11:33:26 PM

 If you don't intending to use your peecee for Amiga games, the better option is grab an Amithlon CD to run professional Amiga programs.

 --EDIT--

 Silly me! You have a P3 peecee. It don't run Amithlon. Try AROS instead!

Title: Re: Is my PC fast enough for WinUAE?
Post by: Matt_H on November 22, 2007, 03:02:12 AM

It's beyond fast enough. I used to run WinUAE on a clunker PentiumII 366MHz laptop with terrible integrated graphics. With the JIT and UAEGFX P96 driver, it was faster than my real (060 + RTG) Amiga.

Title: Re: Is my PC fast enough for WinUAE?
Post by: koaftder on November 22, 2007, 03:06:47 AM

Just try it and take it for a spin.

Title: Re: Is my PC fast enough for WinUAE?
Post by: Amiduffer on November 22, 2007, 06:14:25 AM

Whew, thats good to know.

Well, nothing but for to give it a whirl then. Thanks.

Title: Re: Is my PC fast enough for WinUAE?
Post by: Jope on November 22, 2007, 12:25:48 PM

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Silly me! You have a P3 peecee. It don't run Amithlon.

Yes it does.

P3 was all the rage when Amithlon came out.

Title: Re: Is my PC fast enough for WinUAE?
Post by: DrDekker on November 22, 2007, 12:51:37 PM

I'm not too sure what effect the native OS has on the performance of WinUAE - but under XP I'd certainly recommend popping in at least another 512Mb of ram.  A faster CPU (say >1.6GHz) would improve things also.

I'm using an Athlon 3200+ (2.0GHz, Barton core) with 1Gb of ram on WinXP and everything's just dandy.

 :-D

Title: Re: Is my PC fast enough for WinUAE?
Post by: JimS on November 22, 2007, 02:32:08 PM

I run UAE on a 550mHz PIII. It runs pretty well. It is under Win98SE rather than XP though.