Pros of upgrading to Kick3.1 from 3.0?

[Anonymous MOS]

   I have an A1200 with Kick3.0, and I'm running Workbench3.1.

   Now, what I'd like to know is...  What are the pros of upgrading to Kick3.1 from 3.0 when you're running Workbench 3.1.  I've heard that you need it, but I guess you really don't, seeing how my system runs seemingly fine.

Just wondering,

[SamuraiCrow]

Kickstart 3.1 was a bug-fix release.  Many of the bugs are quite subtle but you'll need 3.1 if you plan on upgrading to 3.5 or 3.9 .

The most obvious bug is that the AGA fetch rates in the custom chips don't take advantage of fast-page mode rates unless you're in super-high-resolution mode.  Kickstart 3.1 kicks it up to full-speed whenever it is possible to do so (and frees up a lot of bandwidth bottlenecks in the process.

[Anonymous MOS]

Ahh, so a definite must for Gamers?

[SamuraiCrow]

Absolutely!

[weirdami]

I think I remember having an accelerator card for A1200 that needed 3.1 to autoconfig but 3.0 people had to run something from the startup-sequence.

[Piru]

wb_31chg.lha includes full changes from 3.0 to 3.1.

@SamuraiCrow

The most obvious bug is that the AGA fetch rates in the custom chips don't take advantage of fast-page mode rates unless you're in super-high-resolution mode. Kickstart 3.1 kicks it up to full-speed whenever it is possible to do so (and frees up a lot of bandwidth bottlenecks in the process.

Really? I don't see mention of this in the changelog above.