PCem

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 ...

terub56 wrote: ↑

Sat 13 Oct, 2018 8:19 am

It is possible to include the fastest virtual CPU that is possible to emulate with the physical one? Or include a FAQ or pin a post with this information.

Mine is i5-3210M (2 cores / 4 threads at 2.5 GHz) and I am able to emulate up to Pentium@75 at almost full speed.

Good idea.

Ryzen 7 2700X
16GB DDR4
Windows 10

Clocks from 3.9 to 4.0 GHz running all cores.

Edit: It runs up to a Pentium MMX 233 at full speed or very close to it. It could probably also handle Voodoo 2 SLI, but I've been distracted by other hobbies instead of getting that working.

Or you could edit the path in the config; it's a single line in a text file.

It does seem, on first glance, that you're missing C's standard ints header file. Google says that's "<cstdint>".

I just noticed that with V13 shaders can be loaded once Opengl 3.0 has been selected as renderer. I had no idea about this! Was the feature unannounced or am I missing or something, some manual or readme file or else? Anyway, I have been trying to load crt-royale.glslp to no avail. Upon selecting i...

When +0 and -0 not only exist, but are different and distinct values, then, well... Problems are basically inevitable.

Also somewhat inedible.

Blimey - I'm well out then! Looks like I'll have to stick to the 486 emulation. I was hoping to run some old classics like Tomb Raider II etc! I suppose the requirements go up yet again for things like the Voodoo emulation? Thanks again. A Voodoo 1 or Voodoo 2 needs 3 cores (1 for the CPU, 2 for th...

Hi all, Bit of a newbie to the more recent builds of PCEM, and I hope this is OK to post here - apologies in advance if not. It's not a bug as such, but whatever configuration I try, the sound stutters. I have tried Windows 3.1, 95 and 98 with various sound card set ups but it will never play sound...

SarahWalker wrote: ↑

Wed 10 Jan, 2018 5:30 pm

I'm planning v14 to be a relatively quick release around April time, mainly just bugfixes but with a few new features.

Cool, thanks.

Ikewithteeth97 wrote:

A. Naim wrote:..."Back in 2017"?? That's, like, still last week for some of the world. :p

I have a sense of humor I have too say.

I figured.

..."Back in 2017"?? That's, like, still last week for some of the world. :p

My completely unofficial thought on this: v14 is going to be about recompiler stability, so it's probably not going to have many new features.

I don't have those Wing Commanders, but I dohave a Wing Commander II CD - Want me to try that?

Yeah, apologies; I read it wrong. :/

A.Naim , You got nice CPU but it wont anyway run at 3.4 if You are using all 4 cores, unfortunately boost speed shown is only valid if it runs on single core (bloody marketing), so on 4 i will be less. For example my I5 2410m on single core has a potential to run close to 2.9 but on 2 cores it can ...

Just quick question, are you sure You got 2.4 GHz laptop? it sounds to me as it is running at 3.2 minimum. What is the model? and CPU on it? I just think You really have no clue, how fast Your CPU is runing , and assuming You got I5,I7 then 2.4 will be the base frequency. I run 2.7 GHz I5 and 233 M...

Followed the guide - Couldn't connect with PCAP, so used SLIRP. Am now browsing internet. Internet confusing and full of unknown protocols. /humour

Ah, I thought PCEM must be injecting something since as you say the BIOS on those machines can't see anything. First, I'm not sure what you call "older machines" all PCem machines are more than 20 years old... By default, PCem assigns D: to the CDROM... but that can be easily configured in the menu...

I'm liking this release. There's compatibility issues, but so far only with games that had issues in the first place.

Gamin' like it's 1998!

Gonna see if my brother can find his Warcraft II CD and case.

Homeworld 1 appears to play flawlessly, as far as graphics and glitches go. However: * The in-game menus drop down to single-digit FPS. * A Pentum MMX166 appears to be on the low end for playing it - My CPU couldn't run the emulated MMX233 faster than 60-70% during gameplay, and lagged near the end ...