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Michael Dale — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 04:55:28 GMT

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Michael Dale — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 06:47:06 GMT

Michael Dale uploaded File:Starrtsbench01.zip StarRTS Bench v0.1

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StarRTS Bench v0.1

StarRTS

Michael Dale — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 06:45:29 GMT

Created page with "I've always wanted to benchmark Starcraft 1 to compare Pentium vs Cyrix CPUs. I decided to throw Claude Code at the job and it has written me a little command line Win 95 benc..."

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I've always wanted to benchmark Starcraft 1 to compare Pentium vs Cyrix CPUs. I decided to throw Claude Code at the job and it has written me a little command line Win 95 benchmark tool that should replicate Starcraft/RTS style logic paths.

Mid/late-90s Socket 7 CPUs (Intel Pentium / P55C, AMD K6 / K6-2, Cyrix 6x86 / MII, IDT WinChip) all claim "Pentium-class" performance but diverge sharply in real workloads — integer pipeline width, FPU throughput, L1 cache size, write-combining, and MMX support all differ. Generic benchmarks (Dhrystone, CPU-Z) don't capture which of these chips actually played the era's games well. StarCraft 1 (1998, Win95, DirectX 5, 16 MB min RAM) is the canonical workload because it leans on exactly the operations where these CPUs diverge: integer-heavy pathfinding, 8bpp sprite blits to a DirectDraw back-buffer, 16.16 fixed-point unit physics, and fog-of-war tilemap updates.

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Joseph Joestar — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:18:28 GMT

Additional references for X-Fi CMSS-3D Headphone

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	Mid/late-90s Socket 7 CPUs (Intel Pentium / P55C, AMD K6 / K6-2, Cyrix 6x86 / MII, IDT WinChip) all claim "Pentium-class" performance but diverge sharply in real workloads — integer pipeline width, FPU throughput, L1 cache size, write-combining, and MMX support all differ. Generic benchmarks (Dhrystone, CPU-Z) don't capture which of these chips actually played the era's games well. StarCraft 1 (1998, Win95, DirectX 5, 16 MB min RAM) is the canonical workload because it leans on exactly the operations where these CPUs diverge: integer-heavy pathfinding, 8bpp sprite blits to a DirectDraw back-buffer, 16.16 fixed-point unit physics, and fog-of-war tilemap updates.		Mid/late-90s Socket 7 CPUs (Intel Pentium / P55C, AMD K6 / K6-2, Cyrix 6x86 / MII, IDT WinChip) all claim "Pentium-class" performance but diverge sharply in real workloads — integer pipeline width, FPU throughput, L1 cache size, write-combining, and MMX support all differ. Generic benchmarks (Dhrystone, CPU-Z) don't capture which of these chips actually played the era's games well. StarCraft 1 (1998, Win95, DirectX 5, 16 MB min RAM) is the canonical workload because it leans on exactly the operations where these CPUs diverge: integer-heavy pathfinding, 8bpp sprite blits to a DirectDraw back-buffer, 16.16 fixed-point unit physics, and fog-of-war tilemap updates.
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		+	First Release - StarRTS Bench v0.1
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		+	== Michael Results ==
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		+	Ryzen 7 7700 - Windows 11 - Not clean boot - 380424 - Work PC
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		+	Ryzen 7 7800X - Windows 11 - Not clean boot - 370151 - Home PC
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		+	Pentium 233 MMX - Windows 98se - 3212

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 === X-Fi CMSS-3D Interactive ===
-Exclusive to Sound Blaster X-Fi cards. CMSS-3D Interactive is a 3D positional audio engine that allows you to hear up to 128 simultaneous sound sources moving around you in 3D space. When combined with CMSS-3D Headphone or CMSS-3D Virtual, this allows you to hear your enemies coming at you from behind, above or below, regardless of the number and location of your speakers. This means that whether you are using headphones or any type of speakers from 2.1 to 7.1, X-Fi Technology will simultaneously deliver audio from to up to 128 virtual positions anywhere around you.<ref>Source: [https://vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=1688&menustate=0 Sound Blaster X-Fi Demo Disc]. Relevant [https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=1336767#p1336767 (screenshot)].</ref>
+Exclusive to Sound Blaster X-Fi cards. X-Fi CMSS-3D Interactive is a 3D positional audio engine that allows you to hear up to 128 simultaneous sound sources moving around you in 3D space. When combined with X-Fi CMSS-3D Headphone or X-Fi CMSS-3D Virtual, this allows you to hear your enemies coming at you from behind, above or below, regardless of the number and location of your speakers. This means that whether you are using headphones or any type of speakers from 2.1 to 7.1, X-Fi Technology will simultaneously deliver audio from to up to 128 virtual positions anywhere around you.<ref>Source: [https://vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=1688&menustate=0 Sound Blaster X-Fi Demo Disc]. Relevant [https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=1336767#p1336767 (screenshot)].</ref>
 === X-Fi CMSS-3D Headphone ===
-Exclusive to Sound Blaster X-Fi cards. Aimed at headphone users, CMSS-3D Headphone reproduces the sound of a multi-speaker audio implementation using advanced 3D audio algorithms. Combined with CMSS-3D Interactive, it provides seamless reproduction of all audio positions in 3D space. Essentially, headphone users can enjoy the equivalent of a virtual multi-channel speaker experience.<ref>Source: [https://vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=1688&menustate=0 Sound Blaster X-Fi Demo Disc]. Relevant [https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=1335596#p1335596 (screenshot)].</ref>
+Exclusive to Sound Blaster X-Fi cards. Aimed at headphone users, X-Fi CMSS-3D Headphone reproduces the sound of a multi-speaker audio implementation using advanced 3D audio algorithms. Combined with X-Fi CMSS-3D Interactive, it provides seamless reproduction of all audio positions in 3D space. Essentially, headphone users can enjoy the equivalent of a virtual multi-channel speaker experience.<ref>Source: [https://vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=1688&menustate=0 Sound Blaster X-Fi Demo Disc]. Relevant [https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=1335596#p1335596 (screenshot)].</ref><ref>Source: X-Fi Creative Console Launcher help file [https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=1416702#p1416702 (screenshot)]</ref>
 === X-Fi CMSS-3D Virtual ===
-Exclusive to Sound Blaster X-Fi cards. Aimed at users of desktop stereo speakers, CMSS-3D Virtual turns your two-channel speaker system into a virtual surround-sound system. It uses advanced algorithms to achieve a highly convincing surround-sound effect. CMSS-3D Interactive extends this surround-sound experience to achieve seamless full-sphere 3D audio. The combination of CMSS-3D Virtual and CMSS-3D Interactive can provide a vivid illusion of sounds above, below or near the head.<ref>Source: [https://vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=1688&menustate=0 Sound Blaster X-Fi Demo Disc]. Relevant [https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=1408321#p1408321 (screenshot)].</ref>
+Exclusive to Sound Blaster X-Fi cards. Aimed at users of desktop stereo speakers, X-Fi CMSS-3D Virtual turns your two-channel speaker system into a virtual surround-sound system. It uses advanced algorithms to achieve a highly convincing surround-sound effect. X-Fi CMSS-3D Interactive extends this surround-sound experience to achieve seamless full-sphere 3D audio. The combination of X-Fi CMSS-3D Virtual and X-Fi CMSS-3D Interactive can provide a vivid illusion of sounds above, below or near the head.<ref>Source: [https://vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=1688&menustate=0 Sound Blaster X-Fi Demo Disc]. Relevant [https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=1408321#p1408321 (screenshot)].</ref> Additionally, X-Fi CMSS-3D Virtual can expand stereo sound to multichannel surround sound.<ref>Source: X-Fi Creative Console Launcher help file [https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=1416304#p1416304 (screenshot)]</ref>