5 Quick setup

This chapter is mostly aimed at people who are used to older VICE releases. The default configuration has shifted from "make the emulator fast enough to work on consumer hardware" to "pedantic focus on emulation accuracy", which is why newer releases have been perceived as "slower" by some people.

However, a couple things can be reverted and "improved" - if better performance is what you can afford to trade for a little less emulation accuracy. Note that if you encounter any strange problems, you should always try to reset settings to default first.

• To speed up loading .prg files, enable Options->Host->Autostart->Autostart PRG Settings->Autostart mode->Inject into RAM (AutostartPrgMode = 0)
• To speed up loading .d64 files, enable Options->Peripherial devices->Drive->Virtual device (VirtualDevice8..11 = 1) and enable Options->Host->Autostart->Handle True Drive Emulation on autostart (AutostartHandleTrueDriveEmulation = 1)
• To speed up warp mode, disable Options->Audio->Sound driver->Enable sound emulation in warpmode (SoundEmulateOnWarp = 0)

Last not least (does not really fit into the above list):

• If you are coming from WinVICE to GTK3, you might want to restore the original WinVICE hotkeys. Go to Options->Host->Hotkeys->Load From, and navigate to data/hotkeys/hotkeys-winvice-legacy.vhk

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