64bit TRON FINALLY WORKS

/dev/null · Post by **/dev/null** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 5:21 am

After much dickin around and other annoyances ive managed (with much much much help from charlie, aka grep) to get tron to compile nativly on amd64 running 64bit only. Ill see about posting diffs for 2.6 and 2.7 for all the others out there running 64bit and unable to compile tron. I have no idea if this applies to other 64bit cpus btw, and tron is still owned by gcc 3.4, so make sure not to use it, im workin off of gcc 3.3.4

All I have to say is this, over 1000fps on a geforce 4 mx 440.

Post by **Lucifer** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 5:56 am

How does that compare to when you ran it as a 32-bit app on the same system? I saw recent benchmarks showing that some types of applications actually suffer a 10-20% performance loss by being compiled to native 64-bit code than if they were left as 32-bit code but run on a 64-bit processor.

/dev/null · Post by **/dev/null** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 6:35 am

on the exact same hardware, running the exact same os compiled 32bit (gentoo) i pulled about 350-400 fps

subby · Post by **subby** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 6:56 am

wow, at what res?

/dev/null · Post by **/dev/null** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 7:01 am

640x480 currently, whatever the default is.

subby · Post by **subby** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 7:03 am

no one will be outgrinding you nully

philippeqc · Post by **philippeqc** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 8:43 am

/dev/null wrote:All I have to say is this, over 1000fps on a geforce 4 mx 440.

Man, got a few fps to spare? It's to buy a coffee!

-ph

Matrox · Post by **Matrox** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 2:23 pm

I have an amd64 3400+ and i would be very interseted in getting a copy of what youve done.

Post by **Tank Program** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 5:32 pm

hate to burst your bubble, but an FPS of that speed is worthless unless you've got a screen refresh rate of 1000hz or however it lines up... the point is, it's wasted CPU to generate them all if you can't display em all

Seeker · Post by **Seeker** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 5:58 pm

Tank Program wrote: an FPS of that speed is worthless unless you've got a screen refresh rate of 1000hz

I would bet i could outgrind him if he sets his refresh rate that high

I can almost smell the diodes melting

ishAdmin · Post by **ishAdmin** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 11:52 pm

Whoever dies with the most fps wins.

subby · Post by **subby** » Fri Oct 29, 2004 12:23 am

Tank Program wrote:hate to burst your bubble, but an FPS of that speed is worthless unless you've got a screen refresh rate of 1000hz or however it lines up... the point is, it's wasted CPU to generate them all if you can't display em all

It is true you can't see all those frames, but experinece tells us the higher fps = better ability to grind ..... a bug in the program but I think it's there

iceman · Post by **iceman** » Fri Oct 29, 2004 12:57 am

yes this is sad but true the game calculations should be independent of the graphics rendering but its not, im looking into it

CharlieH · Post by **CharlieH** » Fri Oct 29, 2004 5:45 am

here is the diff of the changes i made to make armagetron compile on an amd64 system

http://dextrocardia.net/armagetron-0.2. ... 4-fix.diff

/dev/null · Post by **/dev/null** » Fri Oct 29, 2004 5:48 am

No bubble burstin here, I know its rather pointless, but it gives me a rather large epenis, hehe.

Also for those of you wanting it for 2.7, its basically the same, the line numbers are prob a bit different so the diff wont work, but if you just open the diff in an editor you can do it manually

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