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P64 is slow all of a sudden . .

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Guywiththegun

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I'm running Project 64 on a laptop. It's nothing special, in fact, it's pretty crappy (like 900 mhz, S3 Twister K, 16mb video card) . . but for years I'd get games from Mario 64 to 1080 Snowboarding, hell even Perfect Dark (choppy but playable for the most part) to run. I played Mario 64 daily, making it to 120 stars . . all at a full 60fps.

Now, it's sluggish as hell. Even Mario 64 will get 60fps for 5 minutes TOPS before dropping significanly in performace. We're talking 15-20 fps max. It doesn't make any sense. Just months ago I'm getting near perfect emulation with these games and all of a sudden they're unplayable!

What steps should I take here?
 
Clements

Clements

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As it is an older laptop, you might want to only use PJ64 plugged in with Power Management stuff disabled. The laptop could possibly be throttling down under the temperature (PJ64 uses a lot of CPU resources, especially with computers with slower processors), causing the speed to decrease after about 5 minutes under load.

Make sure your laptop is on a hard surface with good ventilation. Also, make sure you laptop is fairly up-to-date with regards to drivers, DirectX, service packs and other updates.
 
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