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SBEMU dirty hotfix for playback speed on SB Audigy (Live) (Announce)

posted by Zyzzle, 28.01.2025, 15:20

> > As an alternate, seperate optimized binaries for each emulated card (ie,
> > one for HDA, one for AC97, one for SB Audigy, one for ES1371/73, etc) to
> > keep the binary fast and small.
>
> I think it's not serious problem as the real soundcard drivers code is (I
> think so) loaded somewhere in XMS memory and only some minimal trapping
> code needs to be kept in low memory. I don't care if it takes 1MB or 10MB
> of my 4GB XMS :)
Good point, as this is for "modern" CPUs with tons of XMS after all!

I was thinking low memory might be conserved a bit by separate binaries. (VSBHDA takes up 5-6 kb less of low memory than SBEMU for me, and earlier versions of SBEMU take less low memory than release 1.5 for example).

Complete thread:

• SBEMU dirty hotfix for playback speed on SB Audigy (Live) - RayeR, 24.01.2025, 19:56 (Announce)
  • SBEMU dirty hotfix for playback speed on SB Audigy (Live) - Japheth, 25.01.2025, 02:00
  • SBEMU dirty hotfix for playback speed on SB Audigy (Live) - RayeR, 27.01.2025, 22:10
    • SBEMU dirty hotfix for playback speed on SB Audigy (Live) - Zyzzle, 28.01.2025, 02:48
      • SBEMU dirty hotfix for playback speed on SB Audigy (Live) - RayeR, 28.01.2025, 12:27
        • SBEMU dirty hotfix for playback speed on SB Audigy (Live) - Zyzzle, 28.01.2025, 15:20