Wednesday, August 4, 2010

32-bits or 64-bits?

Hello people, how are you?

These last weeks I was testing two versions of Mandriva 2010 Spring: 32 and 64 bits!

After testing the same compiler parameters, I got a little better performance under 64-bits enviroment. Games like CAPCOM ZN-1 and ZN-2 and others like Tekken 3 and Gauntled Legends are running at 100% without frameskip. Of course, my processor is a Phenom II Quad 3.4 Ghz, and this help, but at 32 bit these games runs about 89-93% speed only!

I'm thinking to move the next PIAPARA LiveCD release to 64-bits now. What do you think about it?

6 comments:

Choudy said...

I wish there was both version together.
Now I'am running Piapara on older Athlon XP so 64-bit version would be unusable for me.

Linulo said...

The trusted Athlon XP is exactly the single one platform that is usable for MAME while not being supported by 64-bit linux.

What about driver support for graphics, sound and network hardware? Are all of those available in 64 bit?

I do not have 32-bit hardware anymore but still I would rather prioritize maximal compatibilty over performance.

I do not know if you have some kind of automated build process for compiling the Piapara distro (maybe Apache Ant or something similar). Maybe that could help maintaining two versions side-by-side.

Vasilis said...

Ofcourse we need 64bit version!!!

Anonymous said...

hi, most peaple i know run their own mame arcade cabinet on older hardware, most x86 arch. I prefer x86 architecture or both. TY! Morkin

Anonymous said...

Nao tem mais placas no mercado livre como esta vendendo agora ???

Rodrigo
Mendez

Anonymous said...

Hopfully you will find some time to accoplish the new version,
Me i hope we Still running in Arcade mode 15.75 mhz lol it's so Retro 2011