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jenisabrat
February 21st, 2002, 04:54
I have a decent system (GeForce2 MX w/ 16 megs of RAM, 256 megs of RAM, WinME, 1.0 ghz processor) and I'm trying to run PJ64 with all the default settings (as recommended in the help file).

However, I still get laggy gameplay, even with all other apps closed down and playing a fairly simple game (Harvest Moon 64).

I know it's not my system, because when I turn "Limit FPS" off then it runs VERY fast; even when "Limit FPS" is on, it remains at a steady 60 or 59 fps, and yet the gameplay is somewhat laggy--not very smooth.

Does anyone know what could cause this, and if there is any way to force PJ64 to use more system resources?

thanks,

jonathan
Yoshi
February 21st, 2002, 05:35
disable fsaa if activated.
Mr. Frisbee III
February 22nd, 2002, 02:57
do you mean the controls are lagging, ie there's a delay between pressing a button and something happening in a game? you could try a different control plugin
jenisabrat
February 23rd, 2002, 11:17
no... the display is laggy. I do stuff and it seems as if my CPU isn't fast enough, i.e. the graphics are jerky etc. EXCEPT that when I turn off "Limit FPS" then it runs perfectly--but too fast.


btw, what is FSAA?
Mr. Frisbee III
February 23rd, 2002, 16:46
FSAA is Full Scene Anti-Alising, and makes 'jaggies' appear smoother by shading pixels either side of the jaggy line. It takes much more graphics power, and it may be what's slowing you up. To make sure it's off, go to display properties--settings tab--advanced button--tab marked with your video card name--aditional properties button--3D Antialising tab. There are two options - Let apps manage FSAA, or force an FSAA mode. Choose force FSAA, and set the slider to 'off'. If there's no FSAA tab, then your drivers don't support FSAA, so it's off. I don't remember if the MX supports it...i think it does though.
Yoshi
February 23rd, 2002, 18:47
all ge-force video card series have FSAA.
Slougi
February 23rd, 2002, 18:54
Turn off sync audio.
Smiff
February 23rd, 2002, 20:14
he already has sync audio off. I don't know about this game but you can try turning ABL off and setting CF to 1.
RJA
February 24th, 2002, 00:27
Jenisabrat, Harvest Moon 64 REQUIRES CF 1.

Smiff, yes I confirmed that Harvest Moon 64 requires CF 1,
otherwise most everything including the scrolling text will be very
slllooowww!!;)