A 486 100... running on something like MS-DOS 6.22, grab current DOS version, turn off rewinds (config->saves), video 320x240 (maybe 640x480) w/o filters, sound mono & 22050 sampling rate w/o any fancies (except maybe gaussian interpolation, it sounds like ass without).
And don't expect anything fantastic.
Edit: ah, forgot - autoframeskip on, max frameskip 9, of course. Toggle New/Old graphic engine ('8') to see which one is faster for you.
i could get somewhat playable framerates without sound under ModeX/Q with some of the pre-1.40 WIPs (on a 486/66), but you might want to try V.600 (or maybe even earlier?) because the older versions were alot faster than the newer ones.
darkfalz wrote:I tried version 0.991 on the system, and I got about 1-3 FPS. Not much improvement by disabling sound, about 4 FPS.
Hard to see why the readme said a 486/100 was a "somewhat recommend system".
Those requirements haven't been updated in years. I'd say a Pentium 200 is a "minimum" system. P3-400 recommended, fast Athlon XP or Pentium 4 if you want to use HQxX filters.
darkfalz wrote:I tried version 0.991 on the system, and I got about 1-3 FPS. Not much improvement by disabling sound, about 4 FPS.
Hard to see why the readme said a 486/100 was a "somewhat recommend system".
Those requirements haven't been updated in years. I'd say a Pentium 200 is a "minimum" system. P3-400 recommended, fast Athlon XP or Pentium 4 if you want to use HQxX filters.
Yeah, a Pentium 200MHz is the minimum system for ZSNES these days. Plays all games without too much lagging, except Star Ocean and SuperFX games.
whicker: franpa is grammatically correct, and he still gets ripped on? sweener2001: Grammatically correct this one time? sure. every other time? no. does that give him a right? not really.
Don't use Vesa mode on a 486 that will really reduce your FPS yeah the transparentcies are nice, but if you want more speed you need to have them off. i'm trying to remember what settings i had for zsnes back then.. though my memory is off. but i remember that i had to not use vesa on a 486.
Yes this 486 has no L2 cache, but it doesn't seem to affect games and Windows 95 that much. I get about the same performance as I did way back in the day on a similar system with an L2 cache (I still remember benchmarks, for some reason).
I expected more than 1-3 FPS in ZSNES. Maybe I will try another version.
darkfalz wrote:Yes this 486 has no L2 cache, but it doesn't seem to affect games and Windows 95 that much. I get about the same performance as I did way back in the day on a similar system with an L2 cache (I still remember benchmarks, for some reason).
I expected more than 1-3 FPS in ZSNES. Maybe I will try another version.
L2 cache typically effects performance massively.
I had a pentium-class system with bad cache. The cache made a difference between 10-20 fps and 40 to full speed.
Anyway, with a 486 100, I'd expect about 9 at the absolute peak. With a ISA-bus video card, maybe 1
I used to run ZSNES playably on an AMD 486/DX4-100 with EDO memory (yes it did actually support EDO, but that doesn't make that big of a difference on a 486) and a PCI ViRGE video card. That board did have the 16kb L1 and I believe 256kb L2cache. It ran surprisingly well, around 20-30 fps, in 8-bit color with low resolution sound. I think I was using VESA display modes, but it's been quite a while since I've run on that setup, around version .7a. That setup benchmarked at the same performance as a P60 with no overclocking. Now that mobo runs a 160 MHz 486 that clocks around a P90!
An ISA video card and/or lack of L2 cache is a major bottleneck. I wouldn't expect anything playable out of your current setup. If the current version of ZSNES doesn't work, try something pre-1.0, but it probably won't make much of a difference. On a 486, you absolutely need an L2 cache and a VLB or PCI video card to get anything near playable.
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AntoineWG wrote:I used to run ZSNES playably on an AMD 486/DX4-100 with EDO memory (yes it did actually support EDO, but that doesn't make that big of a difference on a 486) and a PCI ViRGE video card. That board did have the 16kb L1 and I believe 256kb L2cache. It ran surprisingly well, around 20-30 fps, in 8-bit color with low resolution sound. I think I was using VESA display modes, but it's been quite a while since I've run on that setup, around version .7a. That setup benchmarked at the same performance as a P60 with no overclocking. Now that mobo runs a 160 MHz 486 that clocks around a P90!
An ISA video card and/or lack of L2 cache is a major bottleneck. I wouldn't expect anything playable out of your current setup. If the current version of ZSNES doesn't work, try something pre-1.0, but it probably won't make much of a difference. On a 486, you absolutely need an L2 cache and a VLB or PCI video card to get anything near playable.
That sounds about right. Cept I never had a vesa compliant card. So all I could use modeq or whatever the hell it was.