Is it me or WinUAE?

[peroxidechicken]

I just tried the latest release on an admittedly elderly pc but I'm still surprised at how slow it was.  This pc had 256MB  ram, 300MHz K6 cpu and an 8MB Matrox AGP card.  

Haven't gotten around to testing Fellow on it yet but I have found it to produce satisfactory results on even lesser hardware.  

[kd7ota]

Yea,

The latest releases are actually alot slower....

I remember having a 500mhz AMD cpu and it rocked the house in speed, but the latest builds crawl on speed.

Hopefully sometime down the line things will be good again.

I forgot which builds of WinUAE worked reasonably well, but someone else had it posted.

[amigagr]

it's like that you trying a raytrace on imagine (or lightwave) on an a500. try on something faster. as far as i remember, winuae start to show up its power from athlon 1300 and up.

[james666]

I recommend WinUAE 0.8.8.  It runs very nicely indeed on a 1999-vintage 400MHz celeron with 64 megs of ram.  Games emulation in nearly all cases varies from almost perfect (Beast II) to much better than a real A500 (Thunderhawk).  Subsequent versions purport to be more accurate, but they are also a lot more CPU hungry.

[bloodmoney]

See my recent thread.
Winuae on an old laptop

[coldfish]

Wot james666 said, +1.

The problem is that newer versions strive for greater compatability and accuracy, hence chew more CPU cycles.

Stick with older versions for older machines.

[peroxidechicken]

Thanks everyone - that really helps.  

[nagaflas]

0.8.8 is the fastest build for Windows. In fact, until I could afford a newer machine (I had a modest Cyrix MII [Pentium 2 clone] with 256MB RAM and 16mb video card running at 500MHZ), I used 0.8.8 for years, and it ran demos and games with no frame skip at full speed.

The later versions are built for compatibiliity, but unless you run very specific (read: buggy) software, you'll find that most of the features you need are supported by 0.8.8.

[guest3217]

Its WinUAE....tweeking its settings is like playing Russian Roulette.....

[Wayne]

peroxidechicken,

you or winuae ?

you...of course

what you can expect on a 300mhz cpu and a matrox gfx card?
you can't start a good emulation with that config

get a faster cpu..pc hardware is cheap nowdays and is a waste of time power on a computer like yours

some idiots says here that old winuae releases are fasters
well..yes but only a bit fasters
anyways you will not notice any diference betewen old or new releases


bye

[Brian]

I belive it was 0.8.8 that I got to run fairly well on a P1-200 with 64Mb, internal S3 video and soundcard and a fresh installed Win98 after tweaking settings for an hour or two. Then I installed software firewall and antivirus program and ran all updates I could get my hands on for this security strainer OS and no tweaking in the world would ever let it run smooth again.

[coldfish]

Laser wrote:

...some idiots says here that old winuae releases are fasters
well..yes but only a bit fasters
anyways you will not notice any diference betewen old or new releases...

Uh - huh...

You're talking from hands-on experience, right?

[Wayne]

coldfish,

uh uh yes
Im talkimg from my own experience
Im a expert winuae user and I can tell you that you will not notice any diference betewen old or new winuae releases unless you run some benchmarks


and that high-score benchmarks have not effect on games...only on a p96 workbench you will gain a bit speed using old releases

but on a 300 mhz cpu will be the same thing cause the emulation will be slow using new or old releases

bye

[coldfish]

Laser wrote:

...Im a expert winuae user...

bye

LOL! ur-gr8!

Less "expert" users should follow the advice from the -WinUAE coders- themselves, and use older releases for older PCs and try the newer releases on current hardware.

bye