[uae] Re: sound and host cpu usage

  • From: Lem <l3mming@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: uae@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:44:18 +1000

On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 01:30 -0400, Richard Drummond wrote:
> Hi Don
> 
> On Monday 15 August 2005 07:45 pm, Don Venhaus wrote:
> > The 8.28 version of e-uae does something that 8.27 didn't do, but most
> > previous versions did. If sound is on, and cpu_speed is max, then host
> > cpu usage drops to a very low number, about %10 ( on my athlon 2500). So
> > everything runs very slow. With sound off, host cpu usage jumps to %100
> > and it all runs blazing fast.
> 
> That's odd. I'll see if I can reproduce this here.
> 
> Anybody else see this behaviour?

>From memory this quirk has been around for ages (even before E-UAE). I
remember using maybe UAE 0.8.21 and being able to max out the CPU
emulation by turning sound emulation off.

I'll experiment with 0.8.28-RC2 and get back to you all.


Lem


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