Best patches for 68k performance?

[cycloid]

i have a 1200 and an 040+ 16mb ... now let's ignore discussions about the fact that i use visualprefs and dopus to make it look pretty and thus gunk it up (but only 32 colors). and i do plan on getting a 060 +128mb ... what i'd really like toknow is what patches people reccomend?

i use (off the top of my head)

mmulib - fastzero
mmulib - fastrom
Fblit
BlazeWCP (anyone reckon a doom port could hook this?!)

i think that's most of it

i've also recently got ahold of systempatch but havent stuck it in there



anyone like to chuck some thoughts/tweaks/suggestions in the pot? cos i want it to go FASTER :-)


edit: oh, forgot: OS3.1

[pjhutch]

I suggest:

1. Install Phase5 040/060 libraries
2.Install updated math libs
3. Use Fastrom, enable all caches, Fblit

Also, try a Workbench replacement such as Dopus 5.5 Megellan or Scalos (or whatever) to get multi-threaded WB experience.

Other patches would only give minor perf gains. A faster processor, HD, gfx card etc would make bigger leaps in perf. than a 1200 would.

[lempkee]

oxypatcher , works on 040 also... that is good, i dont know if the other works on 040 though, but that one does...will make yer sys fly compared to now.

cheers

[lionstorm]

BLIZKICK is a must have for blizzard1260 owners.
Lio

[sTix]

Executive - for improved multitasking.....

[Framiga]

Hi Cycloid,

forget MMU packages and FastRom (512K of ram lost).

CopyMemQuick (maybe)

As Lempkee already suggested, OxyPatcher helps a lot on some FPU operations.

For AGA speedup, i suggest you BlazeWCP, FBlit and Ftext.

If you can upgrade the ram, there are some other solutions.

Ciao

[Framiga]

by sTix on 2003/10/17 14:21:28

Executive - for improved multitasking.....

Executive on a 040 system? not a good idea IMHO

Ciao

[BouncingAyatollah]

I would say a kick remapper (Blizkick or RemApollo depending on your card), BlazeWCP, Cyberpatcher or Oxypatcher for 040 or especially 060, Fblit. I found going too far with dozens of patches could cause problems. I'd avoid Executive too, tried it twice and got rid of it twice very quickly. As suggested some sort of Text speedup might help too. That's most of the bottlenecks taken care of then.

FScreen speeded up browsing enormously but it was a switch on/switch off thing because some programs (e.g. Star Trek 25th) didn't like it at all.

[Steady]

@Framiga:

Executive on a 040 system? not a good idea IMHO

Why is that?

[bloodline]

Executive is nice from a users prespecitve... but quite crappie from a Task one. Don't use it if you have any time critical, CPU intesive tasks... avoid it

[Framiga]

@ Steady

because the guy needs speed improvements, and Executive on a 68040 with 16MB of ram, is not the right choise IMHO.

Ciao

[SilvrDrgn]

HSMathLibs made a big, noticeable speed improvement on my systems. (About My Comptuers)

[StevenJGore]

For AGA speedup, i suggest you BlazeWCP, FBlit and Ftext.

These are the three patches that I use, and other than MCP (definitely NOT a performance tool!), I don't have any other patches on my systems. I definitely recommend that you at least use these three!

I run a 256-colour workbench with 256-colour backdrop, with solid window moving and resizing, and it's nippy, even without the patches. Both my systems (A1200 and CD32) are expanded to 50Mhz 030's with 50Mhz FPU's and 32MB RAM (ie. more or less identical) and yet my CD32 can run a 256-colour workbench about two or three times faster than the A1200 can... the Akiko chip, maybe? or perhaps something related to the the SX32 Pro?

[LP]

I installed Cyberpatcher a few days ago due to an advise from some guys here... And boy! It really speeded things up... I was amazed by the speed increase... So if you buy a phase5 Blizzard1260 And install that patch you should be flying :-)

-LP

[adolescent]

A bit off topic, but when I used my A3000/040 I had a program that would patch some 68k math functions in binaries.  Anyone know what it was called?  It really helped.