WHDLoad question

[orange]

Sometimes screen goes repeatedly on and off while (very slowly) loading in some games, can that be solved?

[motorollin]

Maybe it's accessing a file outside the slave, which means it has to switch the OS back on to let AmigaDOS load the file. Make sure the PRELOAD tooltype is enabled.

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moto

[Akiko]

How much memory do you have?

[orange]

1Mb chip + 8Mb fast

[Matt_H]

Those are called 'OS Swaps' by the developers. Since the games themselves are not multitasking, in order to get disk read/write access the 'emulation' needs to be paused. With PRELOAD a lot of this can be eliminated if you have enough RAM, but if a game has a save feature, saving to disk can also trigger the OS swap.

[A4000_Mad]

@ orange

We were getting the pausing and flashing screen when trying to play Worms The Directors Cut in an A1200 Desktop with 8 meg of fast memory. But after putting in a 32 megs the problem was gone  :-)

:pint:

A4000 Mad