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DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha6 Release (Announce)

posted by FFK , 18.06.2026, 11:02
(edited by FFK on 18.06.2026, 18:17)

>
> At 640x480 at 1.5 Ghz I got about 28 fps with sound enabled, about 33 fps
> without any sound. At 3.4 Ghz, speeds increase to 70 fps without sound and
> 65 fps with sound. (This is without MTRRs set for LFB writecombining, which
> my Dell laptop with i5-8250 laptop can't set in DOS -- immediate hard
> system freeze when I try, perhaps due to USB boot or other embedded BIOS
> code which loads on top of DOS in bare metal).
>

Did you have FDAPM installed ? 70fps is too low for an I5-8250.
with last alpha 6, a dpmi_yield call (energy saving) is always performed (need to be configured in CFG file).
This dropped fps from 6000 to about 500fps on my ryzen 7700x.

Complete thread:

• DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha2 - FFK, 28.02.2026, 04:59 (Announce)
  • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - rr, 28.02.2026, 12:57
    • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - FFK, 28.02.2026, 22:47
      • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - Zyzzle, 01.03.2026, 05:29
        • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - FFK, 01.03.2026, 10:50
          • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - DOS SMP - mceric, 01.03.2026, 12:27
            • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - DOS SMP - FFK, 01.03.2026, 21:50
          • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - RayeR, 01.03.2026, 15:52
            • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - FFK, 01.03.2026, 17:58
              • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - RayeR, 02.03.2026, 18:20
                • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - FFK, 02.03.2026, 23:21
          • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - Zyzzle, 03.03.2026, 02:25
  • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - Zyzzle, 28.02.2026, 14:48
    • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - FFK, 28.02.2026, 23:20
      • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - Zyzzle, 01.03.2026, 01:43
    • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - FFK, 02.03.2026, 02:15
      • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - RayeR, 02.03.2026, 05:14
        • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - FFK, 02.03.2026, 09:08
          • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - RayeR, 02.03.2026, 18:25
            • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - FFK, 02.03.2026, 23:30
              • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - Zyzzle, 03.03.2026, 02:15
                • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - RayeR, 03.03.2026, 02:33
                • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - FFK, 04.03.2026, 12:26
              • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - RayeR, 03.03.2026, 20:59
                • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - FFK, 03.03.2026, 22:13
                  • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - Laaca, 05.03.2026, 07:00
                    • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - RayeR, 05.03.2026, 17:30
      • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - Zyzzle, 02.03.2026, 10:58
        • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha1 - FFK, 02.03.2026, 16:59
  • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha3 - FFK, 26.03.2026, 02:47
    • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha3 - Zyzzle, 05.04.2026, 20:37
      • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha3 - FFK, 06.04.2026, 17:28
  • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha4 - FFK, 13.04.2026, 03:30
    • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha4 - Zyzzle, 24.04.2026, 13:22
      • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha4 - FFK, 24.04.2026, 17:38
        • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha4 - Zyzzle, 25.04.2026, 04:14
          • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha4 - FFK, 25.04.2026, 13:27
            • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha4 - PCGamingTimeMachine, 25.04.2026, 21:52
              • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha4 - FFK, 25.04.2026, 22:34
                • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha4 - PCGamingTimeMachine, 28.04.2026, 18:39
                  • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha4 - FFK, 04.05.2026, 09:28
  • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha5 - FFK, 25.04.2026, 13:18
    • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha5 - RayeR, 04.05.2026, 06:40
      • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha5 - Zyzzle, 04.05.2026, 08:29
        • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha5 - FFK, 04.05.2026, 10:11
        • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha5 - RayeR, 04.05.2026, 21:26
          • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha5 - Zyzzle, 05.05.2026, 02:12
          • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha5 - FFK, 06.05.2026, 09:01
      • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha5 - FFK, 04.05.2026, 08:55
        • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha5 - Zyzzle, 07.05.2026, 11:49
          • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha5 - FFK, 07.05.2026, 13:27
            • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha5 - Zyzzle, 08.05.2026, 02:42
  • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha6 Release - FFK, 14.06.2026, 01:39
    • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha6 Release - Zyzzle, 18.06.2026, 02:09
      • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha6 Release - FFK, 18.06.2026, 02:36
        • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha6 Release - Zyzzle, 18.06.2026, 10:40
          • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha6 Release - FFK, 18.06.2026, 11:02
            • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha6 Release - Zyzzle, 19.06.2026, 00:26
    • DUGL Player 1.0 Alpha6 Release - FFK, 19.07.2026, 19:45