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Amiga Software Help / Discussion => Games Discussion => Topic started by: skateblind on May 18, 2009, 11:14:35 PM

Title: Frontier still seems choopy with 8mb expansion
Post by: skateblind on May 18, 2009, 11:14:35 PM

I am looking for opinions on whether this is normal.

Title: Re: Frontier still seems choopy with 8mb expansion
Post by: Anemos on May 18, 2009, 11:49:40 PM

Skate, the ram expansion is not accelerator
same speed as Default,i test it now on my A1200 + Bllizard 030+ fpu/64MB and running very well..
ram expansion is good only for running all  of Whdload games (some need more to 4mb)
thanks to my Teachers: Horace and FOL..
 ;D

Title: Re: Frontier still seems choopy with 8mb expansion
Post by: skateblind on May 19, 2009, 12:12:06 AM

it has a 33mhz fpu on it too and it does help, just not as much as I thought it would  :'(

Oh well...

Title: Re: Frontier still seems choopy with 8mb expansion
Post by: Anemos on May 19, 2009, 12:23:58 AM

FPU NOT support for many many  programs and games..(i think very less ..)  (dunno for Frontier if need also FPU)
you need powerful CPU and that is on accelerators only , i know is expensive but... :(

Title: Re: Frontier still seems choopy with 8mb expansion
Post by: Hungry Horace on May 19, 2009, 07:44:48 AM

FPU makes no difference to Frontier.

There is -maybe- one port of Quake or Doom which will take advantage of the FPU, although i've yet to see any confirmation of that. Even with Demos i dont think there are many/any that will use it.

Some, and a very limitted, number of Apps will take advantage of it. But you are talking 3D rendering and stuff like that which involves large amounts of mathematics.

I would have thought the ram expansion would have made a fair bit of difference to Frontier.... given that the 020 sees very little improvement over the 68000 without fastram, although remember this is only a jump from 7mhz -> 14 mhz.... and not like having an 030 which could potentiall be up to 50 mhz, as some of us are used to ;)