For the x86 targets, the absolute minimum's a CPU with SSE2 extensions. For the Windows requirements, the WxWidgets and SDL2 parts will bite.

My personal sources for drivers had been: - GLSetup = 3dfx V1/V2/V3 drivers for Win9X, lazy installer from certain 1999-2001 game discs that involve OpenGL (starting from Quake III Arena and ending around Serious Sam The Second Encounter), also useful for any other decent enough 3d card of the 98-99...

Real S3 cards never worked with Windows for Workgroups' SVGA driver. The Cirrus, Oak and Tseng cards should though

I doubt it's 'developers messing with players' but more developers not bothering with a menu selection routine for configuration. Some games did that (especially in the 286 era), it's only a step beyond Y/N questions about wanting music or sound from the amiga days

On some of the autodetection boards you'll need to manually detect and configure a drive and then enable LBA or LARGE elsewhere to use larger drives. Earlier 486 boards likely won't have the choice. I prefer the AMI WinBIOS for socket 3 because that's what my VIP 486 was (though the emulated board i...

Voodoo3's among the fastest of the pre-Geforce256 GPUs in 1999, the most widely supported (primary Direct3D+OpenGL device, Glide3, plus the bunch of prior Glide2 games), and it had the most technical information available for longer so it's the most logical to emulate. The issue for years are today'...

Intel chipset drivers typically are for later boards than the 430VX that would need them for AGP and DMA purposes (among other things). They're not neccessary for Triton boards, especially as Win98se already come with device drivers that work fine with them. If you needed an Intel chipset driver to ...

IIRC Gravis Gamepads also had a GrIP standard for input to allow for extra buttons and a second pad

It's all trial and error and drops when: - there's too many blocks to recompile, which can happen with video decoding more often, and self-modifying code - too much frames rendered to keep up, which can occur with Voodoo cards not being vsynced on slower processors - I/O access can also be a factor,...

I'm assuming these refusing 90s games are modern source ports compiled on later VisualC 201X's and GCCs after 4 or GoG releases with additional support DLLs to smoothen the modern windows compatiblity experience. There was no XP in the 90s so that shouldn't be necessary. I think the only company tha...

There's a few games where a Trio64 can render faster than a ViRGE DX at DirectDraw 2D

PGO isn't something very automatable. Instead there could be -flto, which still isn't quite PGO tier but is a good boost and is what i've always done for making WIP builds.

I'm very content with the performance from K6/233 emulation and that's adequate for a lot of stuff from early 2002 and earlier (having dealt with PCs of a similar performance target at the time). The real cutoff is the later 2002 stuff that demanded DXTC and HWT&L as there was an emerging DX7/8-...

PCem release builds use profile-generated optimization.

i'd rather see a rise, k5, or an umc486 before either of those

No. PCem doesn't emulate any 5.1 card, but it does emulate an AudioPCI which can work with A3D for some HRTF'd 2 channel sound, which Half-Life can do.

Yep, the raw image file format hasn't changed. I've booted some old img backups of hard drives dumped with WinImage and DD from long ago.

You can also do the reverse. I've once DD'd a prepared PCem img with xfdisk + several windows installs to a HDD on a real computer and it worked.

it say Removed code for disabling optimization, as its causing lag issues. F… unfortunately we dont have full title of the Removed code for disabling optimization Check the commits for full untruncated messages. without use multiple core You can't force multi-core optimization for emulating a singl...

Windows9xFan wrote: ↑Thu 30 Mar, 2023 11:51 am You forgot

Read the room and check your entitlement.

Windows 9x does heavy access when it boots and that's a bottleneck to the emulation when it does and it happens to everybody.

Having the window set to be resizable helps, because then it'll nudge the window downward when you do.
on modern watered down versions of Windows, you'll have to shift-rightclick on PCem in the task bar to access the move window feature.

A lot of older Glide games didn't futureproof (nor couldn't) for Banshee's breaking of the resolution limits. For Glide, only newer games using Glide3x released in 1999+ should be more hi-res aware. Otherwise it'll be Direct3D and OpenGL (no MiniGL) for older hirez-able games. This goes both directi...

If it's about industrial use to replace hardware, please be aware that PCem is designed for entertainment and does not offer full floating point precision (otherwise it'd be way too slow and unusuable). All FPU emulators take performance shortcuts and this is also true for 6th+ gen console emulators...

For Ryzen, turning off SMT helps.

One of the biggest advantages of running Linux is that everything, all system packages and all installed software can be managed in a single system-wide package manager that keeps everything up to date. it is very poor practice to circumvent it. Downstream has opportunities to make unsupported chan...

Yeah, this AWE32 isn't plug 'n play. You'll always have to add new hardware manually or let it do the exhaustive search, and then you can install the AWE32/64 software.

Verites are a little special because Sierra On-Line had a video card with it (Screamin' 3D) and Papyrus games were made to support that (up to Grand Prix Legends)

Papyrus has something to do with the Millennium 3D support in vNext too

with sarah's naming conventions, if it doesn't end with em or ulator, it's probably not an emulator.

It's how I played them then. Mice had balls with little wheels that'd get gunked up and 90s "gaming mice" were ergonomic horrors that sometimes try to shove trackballs on them.

The comfortable clockspeed on a 201X Intel Core processor that can reach 200mhz emulation's usually 4ghz. 4ghz was a very common stable overclock as well, but that's relegated to "K" processors. (2500k and up etc.)