Update: AMIStore was crashing because I wasn't using a fixed IP, now it's working like a charm, this setting is preventing network related failures so far.
I have just tested this on my hardware AmiStore can be started as the first app without any problems. TuneNet works very well and stable as well as streaming and playing with .mp3.
Duly noted, I'll keep an eye on this.
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If you bought Tower57 you have to replace the exe with this one:
Basically, 3D acceleration works, but usually a MiniGL/Gles application can only be run once without problems. When running it again, the whole system often freezes. I suspect that MiniGL/Gles on the A1222 is simply faulty. It could also be a driver problem, but I'm not sure about that.
Maybe you could provide some bug reports so we can see what crashes and why it crashes?
Yes, I guess it's worth going deep into this, I'll save a list and I'll post it back.
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On another note, what USB ports are you using on your A1222?
Interesting question, I never really cared about this detail, I have the 2 front ports connected with two internal USB3->USB2 adaptors, mostly all the time. Does it make any difference?
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Something else about my system I use a RX570 (8GB) ITX and Samsung 8GB PC3L-12800S DDR3 1600 MHz 1.35 V SODIMM memory and it works fine.
I'm using a Sapphire RX580 (8GB) right now. I tried an Asus RX560 (4GB), a Sapphire RX480 (8GB) and another Asus RX550 (4GB). Again it doesn't seemed to change anything, I'm keeping the RX580 just because it's more fancy I guess, in terms of crashes nothing changed. I've ordered this same RAM of yours, so I'll be able to test it. At the moment I'm using a quite expensive 4GB NAS 1600 MHz DDR 1.35 V from TerraMaster. I tried a few different modules and I'm finding this one the most reliable, even if I really haven't noticed any relevant difference so far.
I'm still experiencing a substantial instability on my 1222. I must open apps in a certain order to avoid the Grim Reaper such as: never launch AMIStore as the first app after boot, never launch an .AVI file as first file after boot, Tower57 no audio, Doom3 not working anymore, TuneNet is crashing quite often, etc...
And the weird part is that if I follow "the rules", the system can stay stable for hours. I know that we're in an experimental field, but it's clear to me that other owners are usually not experiencing my same issues. I tried many video cards, a few ram modules, and I managed to fix here and there, but without the amazing alternative SPE drivers I couldn't really make the 3d side working, which shouldn't be mandatory.
In conclusion, at the moment, My Sam460 and my AmigaOneXE G4 are way more reliable, but I'm positive that sometimes in the future, I will find the reason and sort this.
Well, I didn't say that is not playing 4k videos properly, I just have to avoid launching either DVPlayer or Emotion with an AVI file as the first task after booting. Otherwise it's all good, weird :)
When you say 'crashing instantly' do you mean you get a Grim Reaper or the machine freezes or ... ?
-- eliyahu
Mostly Grim Reaper plus occasional pure machine Freezes but...I almost managed to solve the situation thanks to the precompiled drivers downloaded from here https://www.goldencode.de/?page=2. The spe_ppc_compatible version "unstuck" MiniGL demos and games, which are now working. Although I'm still unable to run Blender, which I truly would like to use on this machine. In any case I'm not sure that this was supposed to be the natural solution since, if I got it right, the other owners of 1222+ did not need any of this to have their machine working properly, apparently. The crashes were similar to my SAM460le, before installing NovaBridge, which it's present and licensed of course in my 1222 library. Still testing anyway...I want Blender! :(
New interesting bug found: if I try to open an AVI file on Emotion or DVPlayer immediately after boot, I got an instant Grim Reaper Crash. I must play an MP4 first or starting other apps/tasks, then it's all good with any sort of AVI, to my knowledge this is likely some initial ram assignment issue, can be?
Edited by Detordiggei on 2024/6/28 10:29:48 Edited by Detordiggei on 2024/6/28 10:30:15 Edited by Detordiggei on 2024/6/28 10:36:10
When you say 'crashing instantly' do you mean you get a Grim Reaper or the machine freezes or ... ?
-- eliyahu
Mostly Grim Reaper plus occasional pure machine Freezes but...I almost managed to solve the situation thanks to the precompiled drivers downloaded from here https://www.goldencode.de/?page=2. The spe_ppc_compatible version "unstuck" MiniGL demos and games, which are now working. Although I'm still unable to run Blender, which I truly would like to use on this machine. In any case I'm not sure that this was supposed to be the natural solution since, if I got it right, the other owners of 1222+ did not need any of this to have their machine working properly, apparently. The crashes were similar to my SAM460le, before installing NovaBridge, which it's present and licensed of course in my 1222 library. Still testing anyway...I want Blender! :(
[quote] I have just checked it again all MiniGL demo,s work from the Os4depot MiniGL archive.
But there is also another archive from GoldenCode developer Daytona675x who seems to be responsible for the MiniGL development. On his website you can also download MiniGL and it also contains a pure SPE compiled version.
Just test it and see if it works better. It works really well on my system....
As eliyahu mentioned Quake1/2 does not work on the A1222 it uses an incompatible FPU/SPE and things have to be adapted to make it run.
But again there is no guarantee if it will work better with pure SPE code, currently no one has tried or tested it and there are very few to no developers left so they will have to accept that these games will not run on the A1222.
Which blender do you use? The A1222+ blender supplied works very well for me and I haven't had any problems with this blender yet.
Awesome, I'm checking it right know. For what concern Blender, I'm using the last version available from OS4Depot which is the 248.7
I saw you have a Polaris12 card, which I haven't tried yet (just 10 and 11), I'm wondering if can be somehow related to my issues.
Edited by Detordiggei on 2024/6/27 22:25:16 Edited by Detordiggei on 2024/6/27 23:14:18 Edited by Detordiggei on 2024/6/27 23:16:03
Thank you very much for answering, let me give you some updates:
- Minigl updated - Already tried 3 different SO-DIMMs - DVPlayer & Emotion working flawlessly after updating Sound prefs from HD 16bit to HD 32bit - Gorky17 is working - Freespace is working - MiniGL base demos are not working (Guru Meditation + output window saying "Max supported anisotropy :16") - Quake1/2, Doom, Dune legacy (I tried several versions of those for testing) and many other games that I'm playing smoothly on Sam460le are giving me some bad output or Guru on startup. - Blender not working (Guru Meditation)
If it would be useful to help not just me, but anyone else, I'll be happy to provide a more detailed list of non working games/apps asap.
[quote]It sounds like you might not have had the chance to read through my QuickStart Guide which touches on most of these questions. Take a few minutes and read through it on http://eliyahu.org/tabor -- there is a ton of useful material in there.
-- eliyahu
I did actually, I loved your guide (by the way, is the one linked the most recent firmware still?). Unfortunately the 80% of the applications you're suggesting to use are crashing, I would say the 100% of audio apps. I'm sure there's something preventing this machine to properly work, I'm used to crashes on OS4.1, but this quantity is unusual, and it doesn't match with anyone else experience, it's sadly very hard to track down a possible reason to me, the filesystem one would have been awesome actually :)
Thanks for your answer, I’ve used the file system suggested on the manual, NGF/01, which I never used before, and then I performed the recovery from the shell script. I even tried a different installation from the provided ISO of OS4.1, same result.
I tried the same softwares that I’m usually running on the Sam460: Lightwave, Blender, Wipeout, and as previously mentioned also DVPlayer doesn’t start. Even the smallest 3d demo such Gears crashes on start, it is clear that 3D and hardware acceleration in general are not working.
5° Novabridge works perfectly with the A1222+ granted you have Warp3D Nova and Radeon RX driver installed (it is the case with every A1222+ sold).
Hello everyone, very nice to meet you all!
I've spent a few days trying to figure this out, but so far any 3d app I'm trying to launch crashes at start on my 1222+, also DVPlayer freezes instantly.
I do have NovaBridge licensed and installed, I've tested the system with RX550, RX560, RX480 and an older R9 230, I've updated the drivers, RadeonRX.chip is of course in Kicklayout, I tried many combos as possible.
My SAM460le works perfectly in 3d and 2d acceleration using NovaBridge and V5 dedicated drivers. It's worth mentioning that for the A1222, the Radeon drivers (including RX) are provided directly with the system and aren't available on AmiSphere (and the given drivers not V5 maybe?). I was convinced that this could have been the main issue, but I'm reading that you guys succeeded, so I don't know how to proceed anymore.
Thanks in advance to anyone that will give me an hint <3
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