Hercules 3D Prophet 4500 Question

[jgallen23]

I just recently got a new computer with the Hercules 3D Prophet 4500 64MB video card (Kyro chipset) and I was wondering if I would get better game play if I got a different video card plugin, I have been using the default plugin for Project 64 and I have gotten alright results, game play slows down every once in awhile

[cooliscool]

Nope. Kyro cards come with poor drivers and use some different methods of producing 3d objects. Tell us your cpu/ram/etc.. It isn't really likely the problem is the kyro. Also, what roms are you running?

[jgallen23]

I have an AMD Athlon 800, 512 Ram. I get very choppy sound in most games and in mario golf, the frame rate goes way down in certain parts, I'll see what happens when I try other games, that is the only one I've tried so far

[cooliscool]

Partly the athlon. Pj64 requires an upwards of 1ghz for perfect audio and graphics speed (apart from the limitations of the emu itself) One solution, use 1964, it's a helluva lot faster and almost as compatible (only 1 or 2 games short of being on par with it). :)

[jgallen23]

cool, thanks, I'll try that and let ya know the results

[jgallen23]

quick question: which plugins do you recommend with 1964 for video and audio

(my sound card is a sound blaster live)

[cooliscool]

Since your card isn't in the reccomended spec, I'd use glide64+evoodoo, Azimer's 0.30 audio and Nrage's KICKASS input :)

[jgallen23]

sorry to keep bothering you, but where can I find the glide plugin? I found glide64_0253.zip, but when I upzipped it into the plugin directory, it didn't recognize it

[cooliscool]

You need to get Evoodoo (a glide wrapper) because glide is designed for 3dfx cards (native api). Evoodoo wil translate glide funcs to D3D ones. I dunno the site, but try searching "evoodoo" on google, you'll get the homepage. Next, unzip all files to c:/windows/system (c:/windows/system32 if on XP) then go to Start>Run>Econtrol and turn off tripple buffer and fast alternate zbuffer. Go to plugin config and it should find it. :)

[jgallen23]

wow, I did all that and loaded up mario golf, ran horribly, looks like this whole emulation of n64 games is too much work...i'll just stick to PC games and snes/nes emulation. Thanks for all your help

[cooliscool]

actually, slowness with mario golf is known, its not even half this bad with most other games (98% of them are perfect) Try another game to see the glory. :D

[jgallen23]

I tried conker's bad fur day, and it didn't run very well either

[Eagle]

LOL, your trying all the games that are naturally slow, Try Mario or Zelda.

[jgallen23]

are there any known problems with mario party in either 1964 or project 64?

[RPGlover12]

Y dont u go and try it ur self jgallen23,but when i played it in 1964 i didn't have any problems ;) so u should give it a try ;)