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Post by yuriks on Jan 30, 2009 17:26:00 GMT
I used opentyrian-enhanced-w32-r842.zip, the splash screen says it's a Release build. Benchmarking debug builds doesn't make much sense, or does it? As a reference, I have a Sempron3000 core Venice. I think I've never seen a 2% usage in DosBox, even the old constructor bob runs about 16% (at 1Ghz). How am I supposed to enable framerate counters and limit to 35FPS? Tyrian natively runs at 35fps. You can press Backspace+F10 to enable the debug displays. |
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Post by mdz8 on Jan 31, 2009 8:53:16 GMT
If you want I can test other versions and see if anything changes.
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Post by grezzo16 on Feb 4, 2009 20:34:28 GMT
i think we could make a thread only about the performances. i have an old athlon 900 with 320mb ram and LinuxMInt6 runnig on it: if you want (and if you tell me how to do  ) i can post my score. |
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Post by mdz8 on May 28, 2009 13:21:36 GMT
Ok, a few months have gone by, I was rather occupied those days.
So, I couldn't produce more result in an accurate form, however, I think I have managed to pinpoint the source of this abnormal CPU usage. The machine which would have provided me full proofing of my theory however is no more available to me for at least the next few weeks, and there's only a remote possibility I will be able to reproduce the configuration in a timely manner.
It is confirmed the issue exists, and seems to be related to the particular hardware+driver combination I am running. Unluckly, I'm stuck with both; on the pro side, I am sure this is a small minority of systems.
Not surprisingly, "easy" solutions tended to produce no improvement. I have the impression SDL isn't nearly as intuitive (at least to me, in performance pattern terms) as I'd like to. I am currently thinking this is an hardware-in-the-loop issue, but there's little to be done without breaking havoc.
By the way, has someone run OpenTyrian on netbooks?
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Post by grezzo16 on May 28, 2009 16:52:26 GMT
hi mazda
yeah months passed fast and many things changed:
- i have only 1 pc now. the old 900mhz was given to a friend, my notebook and my desktop sold
- i have new pc: MSI AE1900 single core: netbook hardware on 19" touchscreen screen. an ALL in ONE PC.
- i'm running windows 7 RC (with official cd key) and the pc is pretty fast, but lot of "basic" game run with problems (due to the early stage of video drivers).
- opentyrian (classic) is evolving pretty fast: lot of improvements in short time.
so this evening i'll try to run OpenTyrianClassic on my pc (netbook hardware) BUT i don't know how to see FPS and other informations.
if you can tell me,i can report my performance.
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Post by mdz8 on May 28, 2009 19:09:50 GMT
The performance is reasonable for me... runs about 25% of CPU usage but I'm using an old build. I don't know if it's speedstepping. Considering that the Atom 270 is somewhere like a Pentium 700 with dumber graphics, this means the issue I am experiencing is costing me something like a 400% overhead and possibly more. How lucky I am!!!  Maybe a day I will run a test in battery life terms, which is my primary concern on that small thingies. |
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Post by grezzo16 on May 28, 2009 19:36:37 GMT
ok i've tested
pc: msi ae1900 (atom 230, 1gb ddr, intel gma945, windows 7 (so with beta drivers)
OT: r937 release, windowed, scale hq3x, wild detail enabled, demo mode
cpu usage: between 44 and 57 %
memory usage: between 5900kb and 6800kb
smooth?: not, less than 35fps
temp: didn't rise
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Post by grezzo16 on Jun 8, 2009 20:55:33 GMT
Hey mens: this topic/thread took a bad turn and becomed a technical thread about performances.
returning IN TOPIC i have to say that:
OpenTyrian classic r944 resolve lot of old bugs and it's very very very stable and playable. I'll stick my vote for OpenTyrian for that reason.
Tyrian2000 has the 5th episode: damn i've not tried it yet because i'm waiting to play it on OpenTyrian2000 (probably the new frontier of OpenTyrianclassic)
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) i can post my score.