Hard Drive Thrashing (Use smartdrv)

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Posted by Jim Putman on October 20, 1999 at 18:52:56:

In Reply to: Tweaking DOS for optimal performance posted by Joe on October 20, 1999 at 12:08:33:

The original games kept the data on ROM chips. The game's CPUs
could read any address in any order at any time. This is hard to do
from a disk.
I use smartdrv and it seems to help the hard drive performance.
EmuPlus's underclock feature really helps emulate some games too.
http://gato.ings.com/emuplus/

Jim



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