Frontier still seems choopy with 8mb expansion

Started by skateblind, May 18, 2009, 11:14:35 PM

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skateblind

I am looking for opinions on whether this is normal.
What are you looking at?

Anemos

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..
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skateblind

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

Oh well...
What are you looking at?

Anemos

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... :(
keep memory,s as treasure

Hungry Horace

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 ;)
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