A comprehensive list of games that are only problematic on AMD/ATI graphics cards

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(07-10-2013 05:24 PM)Danyal Zia Wrote:  Have you tried running PPSSPP on your Pentium 4 with X800XL? Do enabling vertex cache gives you speed boost with it? I also have similar older rig like yours with Pentium 4 3.0 ghz, But I have X800 with it (note the absence of "XL")

Once. To benchmark it using the cube.iso test. It actually did better than my current (but still very old) Core 2 Duo laptop with a 4670 HD.

Which blew my mind.

Here're the links to the benchmark on the forums. Afaik, it was a thread made by daxtsu that's submerged.

The procedure (follow it precisely):-
http://forums.ppsspp.org/showthread.php?...4#pid26564

My P4 result:-
http://forums.ppsspp.org/showthread.php?...2#pid26872

My Core 2 result (the same rig in my signature):-
http://forums.ppsspp.org/showthread.php?...1#pid26571

The P4 with the X800XL actually scores higher than the Core 2 with the 4670 HD lol. Which is insane.

(4670 is usually 300-400% faster than the X800XL in various benchmarks, the Core 2 is supposed to be 4-5x faster than the P4.

The only other difference between them is the OS, XP vs Windows 7, and like I've mentioned before, AMD's Windows 7 OGL drivers are really bad when compared to the XP OGL drivers.)

(07-10-2013 05:24 PM)Danyal Zia Wrote:  I even have way too ancient Pentium M (2.0 ghz) based laptop with Mobility X300 lol! I once tried running Castlevania Dracula X on it and it was running at full speed PPSSPP is seriously the best engineering of C++ I've ever seen! That's the reason I'm interested in development of it

The Pentium M is actually pretty powerful for its time. A Pentium M at 2.0 GHz is actually performing the same amount of work as a P4 @ 2.5 (roughly) GHz. It has a higher IPC and is actually the basis of the Intel Core microarchitecture that would be used in the Core 2 later on.

The M X300 on the other hand, is very weak, but should still be enough for 2D games lol.