I like to see disk activity all the time. That is why the engineers who designed the computers put the hd led. Any virtualizer offers this. Fair enough. :) I don't have enough experience with emulators to say how many, as a percentage, offer that option. But I'm willing to accept an assertion that ...

"Windows 98SE Freezes" seemed in the ballpark to me =p A reboot freeze typically happens for much different reasons that freezes when playing specific games. OP of the thread here Stealth is welcome to post here and your welcome to not bully people and pick fights because they report a bug in a way...

This isn't really the same bug I would think but I updated my 98se to v17 last night Today I was playing a few things Jedi knight 2 and Sub colture. Was playing for a along time like I do sometimes with no problems in past pcem's but today after update the games was locking up to where the last key...

This isn't really the same bug I would think but I updated my 98se to v17 last night Today I was playing a few things Jedi knight 2 and Sub colture. Was playing for a along time like I do sometimes with no problems in past pcem's but today after update the games was locking up to where the last key...

I don't know what options are available for Ryzen machines, but on my Xeon machine, turning off hyper threading and disabling the clock down feature (so the cpu is running at full clock constantly) improved performance noticeably. Interesting. What CPU(s) could you run with hyper-threading and cloc...

I find it very uncomfortable to have to keep bringing the machine window forward all the time to see disk activity. Why do you need to see disk activity? If it is spending 10+ seconds to display the contents of a drive, that may be cause for a bug report. Otherwise, I find it strange that disk acti...

Which indicates that the problems reported with Daggerfall in this post:

viewtopic.php?p=14897#p14897

are due to a PII/233MHz CPU being too fast for Daggerfall.

CryptidWorks wrote: ↑

Sun 27 Dec, 2020 12:13 am

One ongoing thing I've noticed in PCEM is issues with the mouse movement feeling weird like the acceleration or scaling isn't quite right. At least in Windows 98SE.

Is there a fix or setting for that I'm missing?

Did mouse acceleration exist in Win98? you might want to turn it on/off.

Happy New Year! (too late for a Merry Christmas)

SarahWalker wrote: ↑

Mon 21 Dec, 2020 5:14 pm

Turning off 'internal cache' is a proxy for disabling the dynamic recompiler. PCem doesn't have any cache emulation.

That does leave me confused over where the speedup is coming from, then.

Slo2020 wrote: ↑

Tue 22 Dec, 2020 1:29 am

How to turn off CPU internal cache?

If it's available, it's an option in your emulated BIOS.

Turning off cache doesn't make performance miracles. Here's a P2 233 caches.jpg So so far, based on information around the forum, turning off the CPU's internal cache has sped up Daggerfall and Civ 2, but slowed down Quake 3. Neither Daggerfall nor Civ 2 use the Voodoo/3D graphics card (Daggerfall ...

Try turning your emulated CPUs internal cache off in the emulated BIOS; that seemed to help with running a faster emulated CPU on my machine.

So related to this and the other thread you made; but the other thread is Daggerfall-specific, so I put it here: PCem AMD k6; CPU Internal Cache on/off, and 166MHz vs 300MHz, on a Ryzen 2700x with 3200MHz RAM; letting the machine idle in the Civ 2 main menu: CPU Internal Cache on: 166MHz/100% vs 300...

Note, if you haven't updated MSYS2 in a while, there's been some package maintainer changes and corresponding signing key changes. I found it easier to restart from scratch with a fresh MSYS2 reinstall. Thanks; it compiles now. :) I saw that there are some instructions in the news sections. But ind...

"error: perl: signature from "David Macek <david.macek.0@gmail.com>" is invalid
:: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/perl-5.32.0-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature))."

Why would you want Verite support in PCem only to emulate Rendition APIs? IMHO, a PCem with Verite support would emulate a real PC with that card, on which the APIs would run natively, provided you install the drivers :) If you really want to emulate the APIs, then current PCem should do, but you w...

So far I've only tested this in Civilization II and Interstate '76, but the results are consistent with both: Whether sitting in a menu or playing the game, recompiler blocks are constantly being created, removed, and sometimes evicted. I'm not an expert on caches; however, this seems strange to me....

The irony is that I signed on with BitBucket because they supported Mercurial...

Except for a few minor graphical glitches, it looks perfectly working - Although I never had a Matrox. Really cool.

Dulton wrote: ↑

Fri 07 Jun, 2019 9:25 am

Also, PCem team, thank you for helping me fixing a near 30-year old bug.

This is pretty cool.

Is it the gold version or Nitro Riders/Pack? The Glide renderer in that only seems to behave well with V1's with older drivers (and has led to a bug report incident before with a V2 which turned out to be real behavior) The CD decal says "Interstate '76 Nitro Pack". And thanks; will try that. I'76 ...

Having trouble finding some CDs, and Interstate '76 is still crashing after less than a minute in play mode, so I don't know when I'll be able to get test data.

Sounds like this might be a bug that needs a bug report.

You can see how much CPU time the Voodoo threads are taking in the PCem status window. The percentage before the frames/sec line is the FIFO thread (though I think this is a grotesque overestimate, and counts the time this thread waits on the render threads), the two percentages below frames/sec ar...

With the FIC-VA503+ selecting high clock rate for the K6-2 or K6-III result wrongly detected by the BIOS. eg. if you select the K6-2/533 it will display as if it were a 526 mhz - a 500 k6-2 the bios will see it as a 481 mhz I only have up to K6-2/300-66 available, and the only one I can run at 100%...

Thank you for the emulator update.

With the FIC-VA503+ selecting high clock rate for the K6-2 or K6-III result wrongly detected by the BIOS. eg. if you select the K6-2/533 it will display as if it were a 526 mhz - a 500 k6-2 the bios will see it as a 481 mhz I only have up to K6-2/300-66 available, and the only one I can run at 100%...

Ok, so your graphics card is basically irrelevant here - PCem doesn't use it. OTOH, your CPU is very old. Even at 5-7% uplift IPC for a single core per generation, an equivalent Intel 9X00k CPU beats it by +34-50%. The 9X00k will probably also run at around *4.5-5.0 GHz (so +28-31%), and use modern ...

There's nothing strange about giving an estimate of a new release. What the hell is wrong with people here? Other people don't act this way about their projects. The thing that you are missing here is that coordinating a project is a job that requires a specific set of skills. A roadmap takes into ...