Pcem slow g. If "infinite" is the only setting in v12 that doesn't make a whole lot PCem is more stable and has better performance than 86box, even though 86box is a fork of PCem. In what to one race is no time at all, another race can rise and fall" - The Minstrel //My video channel// Reply 4 of 13, by bluejeans. 24 posts • Page 1 of 1. Unfortunetely, the same problem I ran to when using emulators is the same I run to on PCem. In what to one race is no time at all, another race can rise and fall" - The Minstrel //My video channel// Go to top of page Go to top of page. A very very nice example of this is Jane's US Navy Fighters. The only question is the NE2000. VirtualBox can't even run game in Windows XP (No 3D Card). Bit of a newbie to the more recent builds of PCEM, and I hope this is OK to post here - apologies in advance if not. Forums; FAQ; Logout; Register; Board index. slow file copy from floppy, CD, and HDD. edit: I'm probably thinking in PCem-land (don't think there's a slot1/socket 8 board on 86-box), i'll revise this once I get home. drives from that days were much much slower than todays drives, i just want to tell you , you are happy that PCem do it that way, it is still faster than using real old CD rom and floppy drives . On a real PC though the linear framebuffer that is grants to some video cards (like the Chips & Tech series, which PCem does not emulate) is a nice boost. 2 released. Now, after compiling the latest revision with the dynamic recompiler, it's perfectly playable. Changes since v16 : New machines added - Amstrad PC5086, Compaq Deskpro, Samsung SPC-6033P, Samsung SPC-6000A, Intel VS440FX, Gigabyte GA-686BX when emulation speed is too slow I crank it down to P200, P166, . most everyone else I For some it's fast, for some it's slow. I use about 4mb of RAM for a slow 486. Test by holding a key in command line, it repeats the letter sluggishly slow. I tried the same old Windows game in VirtualBox and VMware. Both 86Box is a fork of PCem (which the website says the project is now defunct, so v17 is last update) and unlike dosBox there is a ton of options in Machine/BIOS emulation and stuff. Basically anything that is too much for pcem/x86box i try to play it via a windows xp/winvista vmware machine. It’s far easier putting together an XP system (plus cheaper) vs. There is no practical reason to emulate 95 or 2000. I also tried running MiG-29 Fulcrum, but a large part of the scene is dark. Support and general discussion. Go to top of page Go to top of page. . It'll have a long detection process on first boot that'll be slow as like a real 6th gen PC running XP would, which WILL bring the "wow xp too slow!" impressions, but it's normal. 2. but you can expect browsing to be slow. The two AMI BIOS'es only support PS/2 mouse, but PCem gives the Advanced/EV a serial mouse, hence why it doesn't detect it. It won't emulate anything. but is it normal that this game runs so slow,for being an early dx win 95 game?game has two (fixed) res:320x230, which runs perfect,and "high res" which is It certainly did help PCem to run at 100% or close to that, depending on how fast CPU I chose to emulate. Before it'd be hammering one of the cores, but now it's barely going over 10%! Spotify is currently using more CPU than PCem, and it's booting into Windows 98! Windows 95 is also behaving. (using EMM286) but it's really slow because the 286 can't switch directly between Protected Mode and Real Mode PCEM is my favourite emulator because it is focused to emulate accurately the old hardware of '80 and '90. 4 released. And yes, for some reason, some PCem crashes can be nasty. Note that the main role of the CPU capabilities of the host system is to help PCem to be able to run at 100% which means that once it reaches 100% it runs at the native speed of the emulated machine. These shortcuts are perfectly fine for games, which is what PCem targets; although, Does anyone else have an issue where accessing a floppy disc, specifically a blank image to copy files onto is slow in Windows 98? Like the emulation remains full speed, but the OS itself is insanely laggy opening it and then opening the The majority of PCem's performance issues are related to the CPU emulation and the surrounding support code. #PCEM #Performance #DemonstrationTime stamps00:00:00 Intro & scroller with description and premise00:02:54 Both PCEm Instances sitting next to one another00: Slow! Quake and friends are particularly bad, some other games will be more playable (eg Croc, GTA, FF7 etc). As far as I can make out, from a quick browse of the source, OpenAL is only being used to mix sources and send them to the host sound device. I can probably branch and write it myself (as I know the release cycle for PCEM is something like 6 months - 1 year and I can't wait that long) but it would be more of a hassle as now I need to get into a code base that I'm not familiar with, blah blah blah. I've tried both increasing and lowering the CPU, tampering with the Memory and disabling/enabling Voodoo Graphics, yet the game is still very slow and laggy. use 166mmx and PCem was at raw stage and slow to be used for games recently. Last edited by James-F on Sun Jun 04, 2017 1:43 pm, edited 1 time in total. a 360kb floppy, an Hercules monochrome graphics card and a Phospor amber monitor. VMware runs but it's not playable. PCem is slow and has bugs in games. ico/. Can also confirm from that Afterburner read-out that my CPU isn't even coming close to tapping out and I verified with Blood 2, which pushes that 233 to nearly max load but causes zero slow-down in PCEM and doesn't even If using that sound card means that it's going to make the CPU unstable or too slow in x86box then I just rather not even bother with x86box at all. PCem shines more on getting Win9x to work better than a virtualizer since it emulates more varied 90s hardware from the time (ATI Mach cards, Cirrus 54xx cards, Tseng . If this number is often falling below 100%, that means your processor is not powerful enough to run it at full speed. Re: Why is accessing a physical CDrom so slow ? Post by leilei » Sat Feb 27, 2021 11:39 pm I almost think it's PIO transfer mode on the host machine, which Windows can sometimes inadvertently. For a fast 486 VM I normally do not exceed 16mb of RAM. Post by leilei » Tue May 15, 2018 12:26 am. Should i use both (PCem and DOSBox) for Win 9x games because some games work only in PCem and some in DOSBox. but is it normal that this game runs so slow,for being an early dx win 95 game?game has two (fixed) res:320x230, which runs perfect,and "high res" which is PCEM/86Box DOS Mouse delay, flicker, and general bugginess. copying files requires a bit of cpu power, the 100mhz 486dx is a like pentium 60mhz , these Assuming the AMIBIOS recompiler hang isn't present with 486s that slow, that's great! My curiosity is if there's proper treatment of the VC4 as the video drivers are pretty slow and would likely bottleneck. PCem for Pi would need either EGL output or use OpenMAX for best possible video performance. Looks like all my issues are around DirectDraw! PCem v17 running slow/lagging. It's a problem that affects about everything I recommend PCem for Windows 2000. All 3DAnalyze does is inject overrides of caps and ids for Direct3D and OpenGL. but performance is very slow. It is currently Thu Nov 14, 2024 12:45 pm Joined: Sun Apr 14, 2019 9:18 pm. It is currently Sun May 05, 2024 5:22 pm; All times are UTC; PCem 12 and slowmotion issue. It works which is great but the network doesn't work well at all, it Hi swapjim , the answer is YES and NO . My single-core max performance is 4. Most of the time im lucky and it Rather, PCem emulates hardware components, some of which (e. turn on when it has trouble reading a cd (which can happen with some protected CDs) and can be very tricky to reverse. It's a completely different kind of project. 2GHz on a turbo-boosted i7, and the fastest CPU I can emulate is somewhere in the 200-233MHz Pentium MMX range. This guide is meant to show how you will use this series of emulators. vhd files. ender Posts: 51 Joined: Tue Oct 14, 2014 12:51 pm. PCem’s emulation of some core system components, such as the Programmable Interval Timer (PIT), takes a few shortcuts to improve performance. VenoMpie Posts: 4 The fps doesn't really matter when you are using PCEm. However that is too slow for the games I want to play - So I have to put up with glitchy sound, but get smoother 20-30FPS with the processor 300MHz (though one game gives flawless sound but poor performance at Also using Scitech Display Doctor or UniVBE May or may not help. Quick links. LordMeow Posts: 1 Joined: Mon Apr 05, 2021 9:20 am. There are a couple of other areas that have a noticeable impact - hard drive and CD-ROM emulation, and interfacing between the CPU emulation and 3DFX code. The Pentium 200 MMX is a great choice if you ever have speed or performance issues in PCem. What really goes against them are their slow VGA Top. exe file, to keep track of what I had. a 98 system using original hardware. Likely not an issue with Doom unless your are running Windows 7+ on a P3 or Core Duo or other ancient CPU and trying to run pcem on it. If your host CPU isn't powerful enough then you may not be able run games properly. I also found PCem easier to setup and get working. Some of the games/software that didn't work quite right in VMWare worked great in this one, and apart from the occasional glitch/audio lag I couldn't have expected better (at least until I can afford an actual Windows 98 gaming computer). In particularly, I get speeds around 40-80% when running Alone in the Dark 3, Daggerfall, Day of the Tentacle, Krypton Egg 32, Little Big Adventure 2 (DOS/WIN). I am not sure if there are any benefits to using Fast VLB/PCI. if PCem were to have Intel emulation going past Pentium MMX 233, then it could possibly go like PCem also lets you easily configure multiple 'machines' whereas 86Box I have to rename cfg and . pcem may or may not emulate the hardware in your old PC. Try turning your emulated CPUs internal cache off in the emulated BIOS; that seemed to help with running a faster emulated CPU on my machine. Reply reply [deleted] • Yeah, this issue is a dealbreaker, although it doesn't seem to happen on 486es and older CPUs. As for the serial mouse, nominally, we do the same thing as PCem - updating after every CPU frame. 0 is horribly slow, that is due to my poor HD3000 performance, which is fastest in D3D but there is no DirectX in linux. I try to place maximum focus on For today's common CPUs, I'd suggest hovering around 233MHz for any of the S7/Slot1s (Pentium MMX 233, K6 233, K6-2 233, Pentium II 233, M II 300 (actually 233mhz)) Apart from the Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament based games (very slow on the P2), I anticipate improvements in PCem performance on new PCs in the next year or two will fix these issues. It would be a significant step towards being able to distribute a fully functional and ready-to-use ROM image of an emulated (vintage or legacy) PC for use with PCem. the answer isnt that straight forward. A 1994 3d engine has so slow texture mapping you'd need a Pentium III to enjoy it. It could just be a matter of time. You are getting close to making some of my older machines obsolete. 3 released. In PCEM works fine, but in 86box is very slow. I installed a vxd driver called AmnHLT which fixed the stuttering. Anyone run into sound repeating with it? It seems like the emulation is running at 100%. Forums; FAQ; Logout; Board index. All CD I/O (with the exception of audio playback) is handled on the main CPU thread, meaning that if it's slow for any reason (eg it's spinning up a real CD) then emulation will stall and performance will tank. 0 running using 86box-Manager and also got the OS installed but it is also super slow, even in the general usage, not just the audio. In total there are 23 users online :: 3 registered, 0 hidden and 20 guests (based on users active over the past 5 minutes) Most users ever online was 2046 on Mon Jun 24, 2024 11:11 pm For games like Star Trek: Armada, the Virge DX can work with the Voodoo 1 or 2. I've run just about everything here - DOSBox, QEMU, Virtual PC 2007, VMWare, etc. Re: 86box, PCem-X, PCem-experimental and PCem-unofficial. Also, how much RAM have you assigned to each PCem VM? I have rarely gone above 64mb, even for a K6-2 configuration. Post by swapjim » Tue Apr 16, 2019 10:41 pm. It seem to be I had no luck trying to run it on VMs, and PCem has more control when it comes to emulating specific hardware. Sadly, 86Box runs slower than PCem (which is already rather slow). This adds more machines, SB Pro emulation, SVGA emulation, and some other stuff. probably took some power to. but is it normal that this game runs so slow,for being an early dx win 95 game?game has two (fixed) res:320x230, which runs perfect,and "high res" which is Making PCem better than Virtual PC. The speed indicator in the title bar is an indicator for this sort of thing. gameplay is good enough, but loading takes forever and there are also some disk related freezes. At the time (around 2014), PCem was a promising full system emulator which had just crossed into the Pentium era. 2a released. In PCem host configuration I then tried to get 86box-v3. With EMM286 installed (and a 286 CPU) I can get EMS virtualized through XMS, similar to what EMM386 does with 386+ CPUs. DOSBox not good for Windows 9x because some games not working. 386/486 emulation (buggy), GUS emulation, accurate 8088/8086 timings, and lots of other changes. For now I'm hardcoding the correction factors for my Full-HD monitor, that won't work for all PCem users, might work well enough on 16:9 and 16:10 displays like 1280x800, 1280x720, 1366x768, 1440x900, 1600x900, 1680x1050, 1920x1200, just faster as the resolution goes down, but on 5:4 and 4:3 displays the mouse will move noticeably faster in the Any alternatives or Ways to release the mouse to PCem? I am using a Laptop, I can't even use the Num Keys of my Laptop's Keyboard because it's faulty right now, My External Keyboard is what I have right now but the End Key is on the Right Arrow key in which the Home Keys, PgUp and PgDw keys were assigned in the Arrow keys. Re: Dynamic recompiler. 3 posts • Page 1 of 1. PCem is literally based off my no network theory of the early 90s era. Not all games ran smoothly in their period. It wasn't that hard. As a result, a slower clocked octo core CPU will be no help to you here. Since the game will run very choppy and slow by default, the graphics Both 86box and PCem only execute on a single core, so the faster your single-core performance, the better your VM will run. Intel Celeron 533 is so laggy. Re: v10 rough timetable. Apparently, I am now seeing that many people are having a hard time getting the PCem family (PCem and 86Box) to be installed or run. In all but a few cases though there is a simpler solution - almost all the glide supported games for windows supported D3D as well. Except you haven't really told us which Windows 9x games you want to play, and you've already mentioned that PCem is too slow for you (PCem is a CPU-heavy emulator), so I'm assuming that you don't have a good host CPU. Battler Posts: 793 If you use PCEm for running games between late nineties up to most game in 2001, there isn’t any issues. Check the post from SA1988 on this Vogons forum page. 22 + gravis ultrasound and dosmid xms memory plays without loop pcemv16-midi-ems. SA1988 Posts: 274 Joined: Wed Apr 30, 2014 9:38 am. 22 i had some really old games that run fine in 8-bit or slow/fast 16-bit modes, in Windows 98SE with NeedForSpeed 2 Fast VLB/PCI setting seemed to work best. I run Winbox and 86box (fork of PCem) emulating a K62/166 MHz with Voodoo Banshee. this was a 1994 very budget minded VESA-compliant small card with slow performance. the Voodoo cards) might be optimized for running games. In the former, it will take some time to fully display, in the latter it will pretty much I compiled a recent version of PCem and installed Windows 95 on it, and the sound stuttered badly, also the mouse moved very slowly. Could be related to not being AMD optimized but even a normal Pentium is pretty demanding, you might Emulation of a single thread CPU is impossible to run on multiple threads. PCem. 5GHz quad-core The Pentium MMX 233Mz works flawless but if go higher I start seeing more and slow-down and by the time I reach the K6/2 chips the system is barely usable because even booting to the desktop lags it down to 80% speed and games just tend to crash. vxd to C:\Windows\System i have an I7 at ,360 ghz and a geforce gtx 750. Battler wrote:- neozeed: There would probably be a big improvement if whatever is causing rendering to be very slow when the guest is not in 16-bit/24-bit/32-bit color modes, was fixed. Does anyone else have an issue where accessing a floppy disc, specifically a blank image to copy files onto is slow in Windows 98? Like the emulation remains full speed, but the OS itself is insanely laggy opening it and then opening the As for bad video cards with traumatic experiences, I have some mild interest in trying to do Realtek RTG-3105IEH emulation. Katakis Posts: 122 Joined: Thu Mar 05, 2015 6: Are you using a large virtual hard disk? Mine are normally 2gb in size. the game runs EXTREMELY slow,doesn't support 3dfx or any other accelerated cards. Top. Run PCem and then monitor the CPU clock speed with CPU-Z (Task Manager isn't accurate enough for that). You may use whichever setting works best. PCem is a good choice still but it's too slow to be satisfactory in a lot of situations. All the other ingredients already seem to be there. 75 mhz versus a Pentium III runing at 233 mhz on PCem/86Box, which is a whole different and more complex scenario. Elegnaim wrote: Mon May 14, 2018 10:33 pm I'm using the version of PCEM datestamped 12/19/2017. PCem forum. As a comparison, look at the Windows 98 welcome screen in 256 color mode and in 32-bit color mode. so games run better (on a constant 100%). Even playing games at rather low resolutions. Just stick to Windows 98, maybe 2000 or XP if your host system is capable PCem v17 running slow/lagging. 1) The most compatible OS for gaming in PCem is 98 SE. PCem work much better on my AMD Ryzen 5600X. for example in DOS 6. Post by therock247uk » Thu Nov 06, 2014 2:57 am. Keyboard repeat rate does not seem to be handled properly (keyboard input may also have some lag but I can not reliably determine it). pcem v16, 486 with dos 6. Read the dosbox documentation, there was F number that sped up games that ran slow. One that would be a drop-in replacement for the official IBM VGA BIOS that PCem of course doesn't include for legal reasons. I recommend using a relatively fast CD-ROM drive. Re: Slow playback (Wave, midi, cdaudio) Post Re: Why is accessing a physical CDrom so slow ? Post by leilei » Sat Feb 27, 2021 11:39 pm I almost think it's PIO transfer mode on the host machine, which Windows can sometimes inadvertently. It's something that's been on my list to improve for a few years now, but has Hi, i try 86Box. Post by Slo2020 » Fri Mar 26, 2021 2:55 am. Also there is now multiple spinoffs of dosbox like save states That does not happen on a real PC even with a slow 20GB IDE HDD from the 90's. ruthan wrote: Mon Feb 03, 2020 7:01 pm But i struggle make its working with PCem 15, first loading is taking 2-3 minutes and menu is very, very slow. The emulated machine did POST, but it freezed or hang at the HDD detection pcem win98 emulating Pentium 2 450Mhz and voodoo 3 low level emulation running on 12600k@5. I've even tried different mice, different CD drive speeds, and with and without PCem is slow. In an older PCem I tested, the dynarec did not work flawlessly with *some* 486 settings. Try the 16x or 32x CD-ROM drive. Accuracy is slow. Scrolling through directories in Norton Commander is a real pain when the delay is long. I do have a real computer with the real hardware. How good a glide wrapper solution will be depends on the game and the wrapper. With the same settings as in my hardware DOS machine "mode con rate=32 delay=1" the delay between the repetition is too long and the keyboard seems slow. Is there a way to speed up the HDD access emulation because it is a major bottleneck in the emulation, specifically in PCem. I did the following to resolve it: 1) Set DPI of mouse to the lowest setting possible in my mouse software (400 PCem forum. Have not yet ventured into Win9x+3d/Pentium and I will not overclock a Pi. The video I am getting some sound repeating/stuttering with PCem on this old Presto Studios game. PCem is also using a LOT less CPU. vxd needed by using 7-zip 4. VOGONS site design is distributed under a i have an I7 at ,360 ghz and a geforce gtx 750. I used to have a Turbo XT in early '90, whit no hard disk. Way back then, it was mostly used to try to get DX8/9 games to work on DX7 hardware (often to trainwreck/slow results), and its hooking wasn't very stable. Resulting CPU is different for many games for me. On v17, a stock Pi4B with cooling can get 100% with an AM486DX4 90MHz+S3Trio64+SB16(DBOPL) on most things i've tried, however VC6's still slow with regards to texture uploads on OpenGL, so the software renderer's still the best to use. 50 posts 1; 2; Next; vorob Quake and SS2 are not lagging or suffering from low fps, the run like in slow-motion, why? My currnet rig: Code: Select all. Overall, why would TCP/IP support fall short on PCem? No, my point is, networking back then went far beyond Thank you for this next great version of PCem! Obviously setting cache to "infinite" caused it to slow down severely (even with a top end CPU which is more than capable of running pcem) and unfortunately I'm failing to understand why this setting no longer exists in v12. I'm doing some experiments with some programs where I need access to "real" EMS in PCem for 8088 & 286 CPUs. Voodoo2 would be heavily bottlenecked, though on a real slow system it does have an edge over Voodoo Graphics in certain games due to Who is online. 1. But A quirk of PCem to be aware of is that if a program isn’t using much CPU the emulator can slow right down. It does high level emulation of DOS and the BIOS, and has sort of a loose handling of CPU speed, whereas PCem and 86Box utilize original BIOS images and operating systems and attempt to run the configured systems at something reasonably close to the original clock speed and timings. , and PCem is by far the slowest. It's appropriately slow in PCem too. Try selecting Pentium MMX 166. Anything below 100% will result in This thread doesn't sound like a PCem bug to me; it's more of a misled perception issue. The sound however is totally fine, it's just the game that runs so very slow. I’m using an i7 3820 Look around you will see people using fairly fast machines and only emulating 75-90mhz systems due to performance. It takes about 6-7 seconds to copy a 50MB file from one location of the HDD to Like if somebody decides to work on emulating a processor that's too slow to use, is it taking away funds from somebody who could be working elsewhere in the project? as we're taking about emulating the NEC VR4300 running at 93. These shortcuts are perfectly fine for games, which is what PCem targets; although, Just a quick end-of-year update to let you know the status of v15 and the new dynamic recompiler I've been working on since v14. The thing about PCem is that: A virtual CPU that's too weak will lag A virtual CPU that's too powerful will lag even worse. I am using windows 7/64 bit on a 2011 imac ( ram: 12 gigs, cpu: 2. Well that game works perfectly under WinXP on VMware, but I thought of testing it on a Windows 95/98/ME guest on PCem would be quite retro :p Using PCem I try to make sure I had just restarted my PC. PCem v17 running slow/lagging. exe > 7-zip > open as archive and extract amnrefr. PCem is slow. I don't recommend installing its Windows driver however Alternatively there are a few S3-related optimization/vbe tools I decided to make my own topic to share with everyone all of the games I've tested on PCem. Is there any other Emulator which works 100% for old games? On PCem, when trying to run older games like Wing Commander, Arkanoid Revenge of DoH, etc, on hardware meant to play games like DOOM and Duke Nukem, the games run way to fast and are unplayable. Especially when 64-bit PCem for Windows crashes, it will slow down the entire host input event handler until it is forcibly terminated in Task Manager. So use that. by leilei » Mon Dec 21, When it comes to maximizing PCem performance, I have found it helps to remember that your CPU is running the whole load for PCem. Why is 86Box so slow? It's way slower then PCem. 14th October 2007 PCem v0. A 4x drive is too slow. General. Post by Slo2020 » Thu Dec 10, 2020 4:42 am. but is it normal that this game runs so slow,for being an early dx win 95 game?game has two (fixed) res:320x230, which runs perfect,and "high res" which is Run a few things which didn't work properly before and it's fine. I still can't setup an FTP server though. PCem emulates the differences between the SN76496 (PCjr and Tandy 1000), and the NCR8496 (currently assigned to the Tandy 1000HX). You need to look for the exact right combination that keeps 100% in the title bar. Maniac Mansion and Zak McKraken will only sound correct on the latter. 2) PCem displays the emulated system speed as a percentage in the title bar (you can also enable the speed history graph). i have an I7 at ,360 ghz and a geforce gtx 750. Also tried different drivers for it. The new recompiler has finally hit feature and performance parity with the v14 recompiler. Sim City 2000 for example will run very slowly when you aren’t moving around the map and in game menus, you CD access just isn't efficient on PCem at the moment. Wine will never have perfect compatibility due to the approach it takes. But there's a catch - PCem blasts the serial data bytes at the guest instantly while we emulate the actual serial transmission speed, and the Microsoft serial mouse uses a speed of 1200 bps. Previously, LBA 2 on PCem was so slow that it was barely playable. 1 Ghz Radeon 6600 8GB!New video emulating DirectX 9 and OpenGL in With the same settings as in my hardware DOS machine "mode con rate=32 delay=1" the delay between the repetition is too long and the keyboard seems slow. Network support and I got very little reasons to use some of them. VMware and Virtualbox are only good depending on which program you are trying to run. Nor in DOSBox for that matter. For example i opened the menu help of dr-dos 6 disk optimizer and was too slow. That game really demands more of a Pentium III 700Mhz at least to be playable to the end (or more at a minimum, a P2 400), all targets that aren't feasible to emulate with current common systems for a long time. Everything will be so slow you won’t even want to open a web browser (if they run at all due to CPU requirements). My computer specs are: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Six-Core Processor - 3. The NET (on DOS and /or Windows 95) works VERY SLOWLY. Probably a Core i5 that's not too old at least. EXCELLENT. Software is slightly slower and GL3. therock247uk Posts: 29 Joined: Fri Apr 25, 2014 2:55 pm. Re: Slow playback (Wave, midi, cdaudio) Post Now that PCem uses SDL, maybe replacing OpenAL with SDL mixer might be an option in the future. 20 GHz 16GB RAM Windows 10 with 64-bit processor On Linux even if you have the pcap dev libraries when you compile PCem, you don't get it enabled, only SLiRP. pcem does does not slow down CD/HD speeds. , low quality smearing texture for the sake of accuracy called "Voodoo must blur" and DosBox is a very different type of emulator from 86Box or PCem. It’s later games that really cause problems, but then again those later games could just be ran on an XP system anyway. While Starfleet Command runs well on every virtualization or emulation platform I try, Rebellion really Two games that really have my interest when it comes to PCEM. Windows 10 guest running unbearable slow upvote PCem v0. What wine does is mostly API translation which inherently is limited by the host APIs as well as the host hardware. I have AMD Ryzen 3700X and anything above Pentium II 233 running slow (sound lag). There is no other Win 9x emulator with 3DFX. Look at the emulation speed. DOSBox CPU Benchmark Yamaha YMF7x4 Guide. Mb now the situation has changed for this research. The link to AmnHLT is I'm not sure how much this applies to Win98 running in PCem, but I had a ton of problems with mouse accuracy when playing DOS games in PCem. This worked for me, installation is a bit odd but you can get the . Aim for 4ghz Serious Sam however on a real PMMX machine it will be slow. 65 in the VM and right-click setup. I lost my mind searching, so I decided to make my first foot inside the forum to ask you something I didn't find (not even a clue): Inside the "Configure PCem" window, within Video options there's no "3dfx" neither "voodoo" items rather than just the "Voodoo Graphics" radio button at the end of the window. Post by ender » Sun Aug 16, 2015 7:07 pm. For some it's fast, for some it's slow. Any idea??? Thanks PCem speed may drop to as low as 40% when running certain games with Internal CPU Cache being turned on in the BIOS of an emulated machine. Re: Problems with diagonal and small mouse movements. In comparison with any real (Pentium 1 era, Pentium III era) or emulated system (Virtualbox, Dosbox, VMWARE) set for a repeat rate of 31 in BIOS or through the mode dos command, PCEM v14 is very slow. mp4 same configuration this time with ems memory which i tried with 'Fast VLB/PCI' and 'Slow VLB/PCI' speed settings. I would try using dgvoodoo 2 instead of PCem. When Little Big Adventure 2 runs fine in DOSBox but is too slow to be playable in PCem, that says a lot. Same conf and tests as above and i got an average of 65% on GL , 40% Second off, PCem is too slow, sorry. The setup I used was the Pentium 200mhz, 3DFX Voodoo2 SLI, S3 ViRGE/DX, 128MB RAM, Sound Blaster AWE32, Realtek. I don't have issues with stuttering while playing games but the Windows 98 startup sound always stuttered on boot up. I don't mean this an offense, PCem is a great emulator now, but the speed needs to improve. I tried Voodoo 2 in PCem 12 but many games which works in PCem 11 doesn't work in PCem 12. Skip to content. leilei Posts: 1040 Joined: Fri Apr 25, 2014 4:47 pm. The sound According to benchmarks, the single-threaded rating (the most important one for PCem and 86box) is actually a little lower than my 10 year old quad core desktop at stock PCem is much faster, even if it's older you'll get waaaay better performance out of it. Reply reply KingofGnG • So PCem is still better (and my PC can run some Pentium II systems alright) to emulate ancient PCs and games. Moving the mouse too slow would cause it the cursor to jump, and it was just very inaccurate. unreal9010 wrote: Tue Jan 11, 2022 6:46 pm Ryzen 5 3500 U is unfortunately too slow for proper Pentium MMX 233 emulation which is why you're getting stuttering sound. User-generated content is distributed under Why is PCem Emulator very slow? All old Windows games lagging in Windows 95 and i have good computer. According to someone on VOGONS it's been compared to be similar with Trident TVGA regarding the quirks, though performance is more 86Box is so slow on my AMD Ryzen 3700X compare to PCem. I tried Need for Speed High Stakes and Porsche Unleashed/2000 with PCem v12 set to emulate a Pentium MMX 200 and a Voodoo2, both seem to render correctly, although the latter is rather slow (which is to be expected I think). Are you using a large virtual hard disk? Mine are normally 2gb in size. If is is consistently below 100% you need to try emulating a slower CPU. Even 95% will produce occasional stutter. I also do my best to limit the number of open programs so that my PC's resources can focus on running PCem at full performance. I managed to get PCAP working on DOSBox-X. Back to PC Emulation. "Time, it seems, doesn't flow. Just download dgvoodoo2, place the dlls and the conf file in the game directory, and launch the game. 10th October 2007 PCem v0. It is the only Windows 9x emulator (so to speak) that can play old Glide-accelerated games. Slo2020 Posts: 28 Joined: Tue Dec 08, 2020 3:17 am. now ,i do know the limits, the do's and dont's of pcem. VOGONS site design is distributed under a CC BY-NC license. I recompiled it with the dynamic recompiler enabled, set the machine to a pentium 233MX and it didnt' appear to make any difference. As leilei mentioned, PCem does support larger sizes now (and, Windows 98 Second Edition is also necessary to support larger ones, I believe). The game, despite me having more than enough RAM and the minimum required processor, claims my processor is too slow to run it! PCem v17 is now available. Back when I was a kid I remember my brother using Diamond I set up a Windows 98 VM on PCem back in February, and for me it blew VMWare out of the water. WRP has better performance, but doesn't automatically and fully render pages that are very tall. This is a bugfix release over v0. Re: Slow playback (Wave, midi, cdaudio) Post PCem is slow. 30th July 2008 PCem v0. When things started to get a bit cluttered, I uninstalled the game, but I kept the . PCem's performance is slow because it does all emulation in software in order to achieve perfect compatibility. PCem must work at 100% not 50% cos thats where slowdown came from, some games use less CPU power and some are taking much more, so your PCem at 200mmx might run at 100% running quake 2 at 800X600 but ss2 need more power and as you can see your rig cant handle that very well, the recording app. Ubuntu and Fedora not recommended due to long install time and slow CPU)-----3: BIOS and installation Your PC is too slow. But I have just learned about a similar Any input on what PCEM settings/mouse driver I should be using? Top. The vast majority was on v15, and a few on v16, but I'm going to safely assume that there isn't any negative changes from the update. It is currently Wed Jan 15, 2025 5:06 am; All times are UTC; Mouse moves too fast to be useful. My graphics speed is set to slow VLB/PCI. Even Pentium 166 is so slow in 86Box. tymm ryzzyptnq loptgof pbo kacu syvdt toqjhm eaegf xvenhqe dkdl