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- Subject: Re: Caligari 24 and '040
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
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- From: papa@ami.boerde.de (Holger Papajewski)
- Message-ID: <papa.03n5@ami.boerde.de>
- Date: Sun, 14 Jan 96 22:14:56 MEZ
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- J. Alan Schiaffino (gt8149b@acmex.gatech.edu) wrote:
- > When I upgraded my A3000 to an '040 (3640), I found that the FPU version
- > of Caligari 24 no longer works. Apparently, it wants to see a real '881
- > or '882, not the FPU on the '040. I can run the Integer version, but it
- > is horribly slow. For example, a simple animation that took 2 hours, 40
- > minutes on my machine with an '030 and the FPU version of Caligari 24 took
- > 2 hours and 20 minutes with the '040 and the integer version of Caligari.
- > Needless to say, a mere 13% speed improvement is a little disappointing
- > for an upgrade that supposedly (according to SysInfo) quadrupled the speed
- > of my system. I know some of that rendering time is dependent on disk
- > access speeds to save frames, etc., but still..
- >
- > When I try to start the FPU version, the machine simply locks up. BTW,
- > the same is true of Scenery Animator 4.0, except that it gurus the machine.
- >
- > Is this normal? Is there any way around it, to get it to use the FPU
- > versions of these programs?
- >
- > Also, SysInfo does report for FPU, "68040+68882", so the machine knows it's
- > there.
-
- Have you copied the 68040.library to Libs: directory ???
-
- Papa
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