Windows binaries fixed

[MarathonMan]

Windows performance regressions fixed: Windows users should see a substantial performance boost in the latest builds. Seems like there's a problem with the mingw setup on the build server...

Thanks to krom for working with me to figure this problem out.

[OldGnashburg]

Hooray! 1 or two builds ago I was getting about 27 to 28 VI/s on my Intel Sandy Bridge i7-2670QM. How many more VI/s should I expect for my hardware? 5, 10, 15, full speed? I can't test right now so I don't know what to expect.

[Net_Bastard]

Hey noob question, but is there a reason why the emu won't run when I click on it? I click on the executable, allow Windows to run it, and nothing happens. It works just fine when I use the cen64-qt frontend.

[OldGnashburg]

You drag and drop the both PIFROM ("Legally Dumped") and the ROM at once, and then it will load.

[MarathonMan]

Hey noob question, but is there a reason why...

Normally a UI box would pop up telling you that you need to pass arguments, but I'm currently trying to centralize all of the UI stuff and make it OS-agnostic. It's not quite there yet, though, so it just exits without warning if you don't give it exactly what it expects.

How many more VI/s should I expect for my hardware?

I was kind of hoping users would tell me. I did not sample on a large set of ROMs or machines.

[Net_Bastard]

Just tried the latest build on a 5930K. Didn't get a huge performance increase, sadly. Still hovered around 30-40 VI/s on the SSSE3 build.

[wareya]

Just chiming it to say SSE2 crashing on Majora's Mask still happens.

I'm open to being used as a guineapig.

[MarathonMan]

Just chiming it to say SSE2 crashing on Majora's Mask still happens.

I'm open to being used as a guineapig.

Thanks, that's reproducible on my machine. I'll try to fix this tonight and bump this thread.

[MarathonMan]

OK, pushed a new binary on downloads.cen64.com. Should work now.

[juef]

I'm not sure which version I had before, but the new binary provided a ~25% speedup or so! Many thanks