Can anyone with an AMD64 install (esp. gentoo) give me a tip on how to help xmame speed?
My new FX-53 is giving me nowhere near the previous X86-64 thread speed, let alone anywhere close to Windows benchmarks here: http://www.classicgaming.com/mame32qa/bench.htm I'm lucky to see 139 fps in pacman and 28 fps in wargods. 99fps in kof2000. That's in DGA, with a few percent speedup over x11 window. Now since I doubt a new K8 is only 3X faster than a K6-3 I must be doing something seriously wrong. My RAM tests fine, and I only enabled ECC. No scrubbing. There is a new stable BIOS for ASUS SK8V that I will try. Company claims this is important for revCG K8s, which FX-53 is. The kernel is 2.6.5, but configured by gentoo's genkernel. I do have idle=poll turned on in the kernel, but that should only affect power usage when idle. I am using xorg-x11 instead of XFree86, because it is the new gentoo amd64 requirement. I do not overclock, nor do I use crazy compiler settings. I use -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe, which should be stable for gcc 3.3.3. The graphics card is the Radeon 9700 Pro, using the radeon driver supplied with xorg-x11. It supports 2D only, but that should be adequate. I've also observed segfaults when trying Xv mode in xmame-0.81.1 and corruption in Xv in xmame-0.78.1. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks! __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover _______________________________________________ Xmame mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://toybox.twisted.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/xmame
