On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 02:18:42PM +0200, Samuel, Brett wrote:
>
> Thanks for clearing up the DGA issue. The reason I tried the xgl target
> was because I was hoping that performance would be better than windowed
> x11.
>
> I am using a GeForce2 on a Pentium III 550 with 256MB RAM. My hardware
> is definitely a bottleneck, this is more apparent on newer games.
>
> However, my performance under the dreaded win32 is much faster on
> exactly the same hardware. I have been given quite a but of good advice,
> what I intent to do this evening is:
>
> 1. Compile my own kernel to optimise performance.
> 2. disable all the goodies like glaa and cabview.
> 3. try the SVGA target ( battled getting it working last time, but
> didn't try too hard either)
In such case you could also try a 'nice' to increase the importance of the
xmame program.
Don't forget that in the dreaded win32 the foreground process has a much
higher priority then on a normal *nix machine. Also in case of the 9x
version, you still can bypass the OS to some extended wich boosts
performance also, that's something that isn't allowed under Linux
David
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