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The "Not Quite Amiga but still computer related category" => Amiga Emulation => Topic started by: Ral-Clan on April 13, 2014, 03:26:58 PM
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Hi guys!
I'm trying to use FS-UAE in Linux and I'm finding it a little (lot) slower than WinUAE.
I'm running this on a P4 single core with 3GB RAM running at 2.8Ghz.
It's a dual-boot WindowsXP and Linux (Lubuntu) system. Under WindowsXP WinUAE runs blazingly fast. I use it as a high-productivity Amiga. I run 3d modelling (Lightwave), graphics (ImageFX) and music recording stuff on it. RTG is a must for me, and it runs really well under with the WinUAE setup.
Since I've installed Lubuntu, I installed the FS-UAE emulator. It is very slick and I enjoy the interface a lot. It seems to run basic games very well.
But, I took my "virtual hard drive" file-system directory from WinUAE and copied it over to my Linux partition. I set up a configuration for an emulated A4000 with lots of ram and RTG (Picasso 96) enabled.
I attached the folder containing my Amiga hard drive contents to the emulator and everything boots up just fine like in WinUAE, but it's VERY slow in comparison. I notice it starts to get slow when it tries to boot AmiDock (Amiga OS3.9) and load the wallpaper backdrop. This takes over a minute for each. It only takes a few seconds with WinUAE.
Icon rendering within drawers also takes longer than WinUAE.
So I'm just wondering what could be wrong - I understand that FS-UAE is based on WinUAE developments. Both emulators are running the same Amiga hard drive setup, but one is slow.
I didn't see a JIT setting in FS-UAE...maybe this is the problem? I use JIT in WinUAE....
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks.
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I tried FS-UAE and it just crashed. There should be original UAE available also.
That worked fast for me.
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if you have a spare usb stick you could try aminux. FS-UAE is running there with Jit enabled
http://www.aeros-os.org/styled-11/index.html
(somewhere in the middle of the page : D )
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Got to be something simple. Check the priority.
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I enabled JIT in FS-UAE which is a line of text you have to add to the "custom configuration" section of FS-UAE. This helps quite a bit, but it's still not quite as fast a WinUAE.
How do I set the priority?
Thanks,
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I enabled JIT in FS-UAE which is a line of text you have to add to the "custom configuration" section of FS-UAE. This helps quite a bit, but it's still not quite as fast a WinUAE.
How do I set the priority?
Thanks,
Go into System Monitor and check the "nice" column.
It should be zero by default.
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FS-UAE is slow, and you can't do much about it. WinUAE is the fastest UAE incarnation atm, even under Linux (running in WINE). Look at the "lame AKsack.wav" benchmarks I made a while back. (http://www.amiga.org/forums/showpost.php?p=746617&postcount=14)
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FS-UAE is slow, and you can't do much about it. WinUAE is the fastest UAE incarnation atm, even under Linux (running in WINE). Look at the "lame AKsack.wav" benchmarks I made a while back. (http://www.amiga.org/forums/showpost.php?p=746617&postcount=14)
Interesting benchmark. What's "Ubuntu Native" ?
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Interesting benchmark. What's "Ubuntu Native" ?
That is the lame benchmark on the Linux host itself, without using UAE.
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I run 3d modelling (Lightwave), graphics (ImageFX) and music recording stuff on it. RTG is a must for me, and it runs really well under with the WinUAE setup.
There's a major bug in FS-UAE where it suffers from slowdowns under these exact circumstances. The author isn't using RTG himself, so it went unnoticed for a while.
Check the FS-UAE threads on EAB, they were trying to narrow it down a while ago. I don't know what the current status is.