Sujet : Re: Instruction Tracing
De : gneuner2 (at) *nospam* comcast.net (George Neuner)
Groupes : comp.archDate : 11. Aug 2024, 19:27:52
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On Sun, 11 Aug 2024 02:41:01 -0500, BGB <
cr88192@gmail.com> wrote:
On 8/10/2024 6:20 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
On Sat, 10 Aug 2024 17:49:42 -0500, BGB wrote:
Meanwhile, saw a video recently where someone had ported Doom to a 233
MHz PowerPC (running Windows NT4) machine and, its performance was not
good...
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Not obvious is what combination of factors conspired to cause Doom to
apparently run at single-digit framerates.
Windows NT never meant for games?
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Windows GDI isn't fast, but it isn't usually *that* slow either.
WinQuake and Quake2 both used GDI to good effect.
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If Windows GDI performance is seriously broken, this is a different
issue from merely "not meant for games".
GDI was fine for most anything *except* video games.
If you really needed maximum performance, you used DirectX ... and
yes, DirectX was available on NT.
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