Astromenace - AmigaOne X5K Game - Amiga OS 4.1

Been more in the mood as of late, after Amiwest in NorCal, to play with my AmigaOne X5K more, so today I downloaded and played...

Astromenace

This is an Amiga OS 4.1 game.

TJ

What graphics card do you have? And what resolution was that running at? It seemed to only be running at about 10fps. Looked really good apart from that though.

@MartinW

Only a Radeon 7750 here as back 5 years ago, that or the R9 were the options here in the USA.

I believe was was on 1080p and using my 43" 4K TV on this one.

Guessing if I lowered to 720p it would be better.

Or upgrade my video card to a RX560 and buy the new version 5 drivers to get up to date.

TJ

@AmigaSociety

Holy Hanukkah, it's Satan Claus

@AmigaSociety

You're a funny guy I had a lot of fun watching your video.

Thanks for your video.

@Maijestro

Thanks, yeh just me being me playing video games is a fun thing for me.

Thanks for watching!

TJ

@AmigaSociety

Quote:IIUC you don't need the V5 driver for an RX card, it's for the HD cards.

Best regards,

Niels

@nbache

For some reason I thought the newest drivers AmigaKit sells was for the newer rx550/560.

Guess I need to read more on that.

It does get confusing what these all do. haha

TJ

@nbache

So the old SI driver I already have for my Radeon 7750 is ok to work on a newer RX550/560 video card?

I guess to make sure to take advantage of the more power video cards out there for the X5K.

I see some folks showing they have Radeon RX580.

Would that be the newer video card and is there any graphics drivers or software needed to use these.

TJ

@AmigaSociety

For RX ard you need RadeonRX.chip driver, and IIRC last version is 2.12 or something alike (in Enhancer Software 2.2).

And RadeonHD.chip driver:
V5 supported graphics card:
- Radeon R7 250/250X/265
- Radeon R9 270/270X/280/280X

V3 supported graphics card:
- Radeon X1300-X1950 graphics (not recommended)
- Radeon HD 2000-7000 series graphics card (excluding the Radeon HD 7790)
- Radeon R5 230/235/235X
- Radeon R7 250X/265
- Radeon R9 270/270X/280/280X

@AmigaSociety

Looks like a fun game we can play in our monthly gaming competition

@jabirulo

I don't see the RX550/560/580 listed in those lists.

But I see people running RX580 video cards.

Which vX works for them?

TJ

@AmigaSociety

As Jabirulo wrote:

Quote:.
The RadeonRX.chip is for RX cards, while the RadeonHD.chip is for HD cards - and the latter comes in V3 and V5 (V5 sold separately) as described by jabirulo above.

Best regards,

Niels

@nbache

Guess I have it all then as I own the older HD for my 7750 and should I ever buy a RX580, my Enhancer 2,2 that I own comes with that.

Thx

tj

@AmigaSociety

Thanks for the info - sorry for the delayed response, I don't have notifications enabled. I really should sort that.

After reading the last Amigafuture, I had to try Astromenace game.
It is nice, with great sound:

My computers sorted here acc play speed:

1. X1000 + HD7970 - 1080/32, highest details, perfectly playable: 51-21 FPS
2. Pegasos 2 / 1.33 GHz + MorphOS + Radeon 9800 Pro, 1080/32, highest details: playable 18.7-15.3 FPS, for perfect play is needed to reduce details a little bit
3. Mac Mini / 1.833 GHz + MorphOS + Radeon 9200, 1080/32, highest details: nearly playable 18.3-14 FPS, but not smooth, for perfect play is needed to reduce details a little more

Pegasos 2 not tested under AmigaOS, used gfx card has no hw accel with AmigaOS 4.

The rest are unplayable, results are with low details:
4-5. Sam440ep-flex / 733 MHz + R9 270X, 9.0-4.4 FPS
4-5. AmigaOne XE / 1400 MHz + Radeon 9000 Pro, 5.7 FPS stable
6. Sam 440ep / 666 MHz ) + Radeon M9, 6.8 - 3.0 FPS

With this game better graphics card counts: Pegasos 2 / 1.3 outperforms Mac Mini / 1.83 and Sam440ep-flex / 733 is equal with XE / 1400.

Nice game, thanks to BSzili, Beworld, Sinan Gurkan and others!

Edit:
Micro A1-C: not works
Powermac G5 Quad not tested yet, I have cooling issues.
And thx @AmigaSociety for video

@jabirulo

I am thinking to purchase an ATI Radeon video card for my A1-X5000.Is to watch games and emulators on 320x240 at fullscreen.

Can you recommend me one? Do you have a spare one to test?

Thanks

@MamePPCA1

Hi, well any radeonRX posted here should work on your X5000.

But you need first buy from AEON the radeonRX driver (and maybe worth the Warp3DNova).

And IIRC you loose fast reboot.

And the 320x240 resolution it depends on the graphics card (dont know, but today gfx cards not all can "create" 320x240 resolution).

@sailor

My A1 (you know it..) has played that game years ago.. I compiled it but never released in the past because it was too slow..

The performance of this game is mostly limited by cpu performance. I don't notice any difference between everything at a low setting and everything at the highest setting on my X5000 with RX580.
Frame rates between 25 and 70fps on 1080p/32bit