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> You still haven't said anything about what OS and your
> system specs, aside from processor.
>

Yes, for instance, here are a few questions that come to mind:

1) What CPU are you running?
2) How much Memory do you have?
3a) What video card are you running?
3b) ...and what driver version are you running with this card?
4) What OS are you running?
5a) What resolution are you running?
5b) ...and what bit depth are you running with that resolution?
5c) ...and would this be windowed or fullscreen?
6) Do you have a video filter turned on?
7) ...or interframe blending turned on?

Things like this need to be known if you expect other people to be able to even take a good guess at helping you increase performance. I have other questions, but this is a good start.

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> SOME(NOT ALL) processors dropped the instructions too.

To my knowledge the x86 line of processors has always added new instructions to the already existing set, and never have removed any. If you're so adamant that instructions were removed, by all means, show us some proof to back up your claim.

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And DOS is way older than Win95... and the limits
> are a lot more restricting.
>
at least i can do more with dos than windows ME

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> 833mhz
> 1.4ghz
> 501mhz
> 2.8ghz
> 1.7ghz

Perhaps you should start by listing the system specs and such on all of these machines. Then, we can get somewhere.

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> 833mhz -128 mb-98SE
> 1.4ghz-128 mb-ME
> 501mhz-98mb-xp
> 2.8ghz-256mb-xp pro
> 1.7ghz-64mb-ME


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> > 833mhz -128 mb-98SE
> > 1.4ghz-128 mb-ME
> > 501mhz-98mb-xp
> > 2.8ghz-256mb-xp pro
> > 1.7ghz-64mb-ME

OK, I'm gonna go over a list of stuff you should check...
1) What version of VBA are you using on all of these machines?
2) Look at resolution properties. What is your color settings at? I don't know for sure, but it may not like 24 bit, change it to 16 or 32 and see if that helps.
3) What other programs are running at the same time? If nothing, then do the following: run scandisk, run defrag, run anti-virus software, run adware scanner. VBA is kinda processor intensive. Half of my CPU is taken up, and I have a 550MHz. If any system hoggers are on in the background, kill them...
4) Try turning the sound off altogether, see if that helps. In VBA, not your speaker volume. <img src=smilies/laff.gif>

Any luck?

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Re: I think you just prooved his point

> DOS is an archaic OS. There are built in limits... once
> your machine surpasses those limits, the OS won't work. You
> can't run Win95 with 1GB of RAM.... that doesn't mean modern
> RAM is different from older RAM... just that Win95's limit
> is lower. And DOS is way older than Win95... and the limits
> are a lot more restricting.

No, you can run Windows 95 with 1GB RAM. Theoretically, Windows 95 should be able to address 4GB RAM. Of course, such an old OS would have a hard time using it all, but it would still work.

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> *sigh*older processors have special "instructions" that most
> processors dont have today.VBA is probably designed for an
> older type of process (why do you think you cant run DOS
> 6.22 on a AMD athlon XP 2400+?)

You can run DOS 6.22 on an AMD Athlon XP. I could probably find a version on the internet, make a boot disk and get into DOS. Hell, I could even find an archaic version of a DOS 1.0 or (gulp) QDOS and boot from those. My shiny new Athlon XP is entirely backwards compatible right back to the 8086 and even 4004.

The amount of RAM isn't an issue. DOS would simply be unable to see nearly 511MB of my RAM and use the old conventional, upper and high memory arrangement.

My video and sound cards also aren't an issue. My video card is fully VGA compatible, so that would work. My sound card is an unknown factor, but it's not essential for DOS usage anyway.

My keyboard and mouse? They use the standard keyboard and PS/2 ports. Generic DOS drivers will ignore the extra buttons on my keyboard and my mouse wheel, but the basic functions will work.

All in all, my PC is an AMD Athlon XP 2100+ and it is fully ready to use anything. CP/M, QDOS, DOS, Windows 1.0, Windows 2.0, Windows 3.0, Windows 3.1, Windows 3.11, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98SE, Windows Me, Windows NT 3.51, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Linux, Unix, BeOS, they all work fine!

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> All in all, my PC is an AMD Athlon XP 2100+ and it is fully
> ready to use anything. CP/M, QDOS, DOS, Windows 1.0, Windows
Well said. Gotta love when people "think" they know shit about computers and are clueless about the basics <img src=smilies/upeyes.gif>

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> I know that! windows dropped DOS long ago and with that
> SOME(NOT ALL) processors dropped the instructions too.

Like I said before... a processor can't just drop instructions. It would break pretty much every program that would run on the machine (windows alone probably uses 99% of the original x86 instruction set). I'd really like to know what you're basing this info on... or if you're just pulling it out of your ass.

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> at least i can do more with dos than windows ME

Maybe you know how to do more with DOS than you know how to do with WinME. But I can assure you WinME (even though it's a shitty OS) has potential to do far more if you know how to use it right.

Besides... I wasn't really attacking DOS... I was just saying it's old (which it is) and has limits about system specs (which it does).

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> No, you can run Windows 95 with 1GB RAM. Theoretically,
> Windows 95 should be able to address 4GB RAM. Of course,
> such an old OS would have a hard time using it all, but it
> would still work.

I heard from a few sources that Win95 doesn't boot if you have over 500MB of RAM. There's probably a patch or a workaround that would get it to work... though. Have you gotten Win95 to run on a machine with 1GB of RAM? And if so did you have to apply any tweaks/patches to it? I'm just echoing secondhand info here, since I have neither Win95 nor 1GB of ram /wwwthreads/images/icons/tongue.gif.

And about your other post... I want to give you a high five <img src=smilies/magbiggrin.gif><img src=smilies/thumb.gif>

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I've run it on two machines, one AMD K6-2 380 MHz w/64 MB SDRAM and one Intel Celeron 1.2 Ghz w/128 MB SDRAM. Both ran slow, but it wasn't terrible, you could still play the games.

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> I heard from a few sources that Win95 doesn't boot if you
> have over 500MB of RAM. There's probably a patch or a

It's the vcache part that doesn't work with too much physical memory. Just edit system.ini [vcache] section and limit it to 64MB or something like that.


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> You have no idea what you're talking about.

I'm afraid I have to side with the Moogle on this one. :P


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ENOUGH!

<img src=smilies/headshake.gif>ok.stop. this problem was fixxed yesterday and those 5 machines? only one of them work cause i said i have ran vba on five machines that dont mean i own em anymore(I miss my athlon xp)<img src=smilies/cry.gif>

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VisualBoy Advance CE

Actually, this is much much faster than the last release of Visual Boy Advance. Maybe it was that version, come to think of it I never did test it out with the old version. It works fine with a frameskip of 2, no throttling, and Mame Scale2x turned on.

Although I wish he didn't take out hq2x filtering. <img src=smilies/cry.gif>

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Re: ENOUGH!

> ok.stop. this problem was fixxed yesterday and those 5
> machines? only one of them work cause i said i have ran vba
> on five machines that dont mean i own em anymore(I miss my
> athlon xp)

What problem was fixed? Am I missing something?

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