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Re: Upgrade to 3.1 - is there a good enough reason?
« on: January 03, 2009, 10:47:49 PM »
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For one thing, the AGA chipset only uses the fastest memory fetching on the highest resolutions. On 3.1 it uses the fastest memory fetching whenever it can thus making the chips run faster. If you're playing games you'll get better performance much of the time with Kickstart 3.1.

99% of the games bypass the OS completely and thus this is hardly ever true.
 

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Re: Upgrade to 3.1 - is there a good enough reason?
« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2009, 01:17:17 AM »
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As I understand it the games may bypass workbench but would still be accessing files from the kickstart in order to run.
Therefore the most efficiently and least buggy ROM would be better surely.
Or have I missed something?

Kickstart doesn't have files.

Pretty much none of the fixes in 3.1 have effect on game performance or functionality. KS 3.0 and 3.1 have zero speed difference from HW hitting game perspective.