mightyrocket
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Lots of people are below the system-specs of a N64-emu, and are asking how to boost the speed of the emulator. Before you ask, read this:
- Many people are using PJ64, but they don't know that TR64, TRwin, 1964, Corn, UltraHLE and Nemu are a lot faster than PJ64.
- Use TRwin for Shadow of the empire. This emulator will let you enjoy it at an excellent speed on 400 mhz.
- In general: Nemu is faster than 1964 and will run the most games at full speed on a PII 450 mhz. Zelda OOT will run excellent on that system.
- Turn off your virus-scanner.
- Use a lower bit depth (32 to 16 will make a small speed increase). A lower resolution will sometimes help too.
- In 1964: You can change many things in the rom options to let your game run a lot faster. Read advanced-users.txt for a bigger explaination of these terms.
- Use CF3 instead of CF2 (1964 and PJ64). This will make a 4-10 fps speed increase (but might cause flickering in some games too).
- Use Jabo's D3D-plugins, or Glide64 if you have a voodoo. In general these plugins are the fastest (faster than Rice's, Orkins and Icepir8). For some games you can use Xengine too (fastest plugin), but it has some bugs in a few games.
- D3D plugins are in general 30% faster than OpenGL (excepting Xengine).
- Purchase a voodoo 2 or 3 card, they are very cheap, and Glide64 is the fastest plugin if you have a voodoo (many games will run at full speed on 300 mhz).
- Don't run Goldeneye on PJ64. It's running too slow.
- Use NeTo's emu64 hip. This will give you a speed-increase of 15%.
- The (U)-version is running smoother than the (E)-version.
- If you're using Azimer's audio: Use 0.13b with a buffer little lower than the default and disable ai-hack.
- Use HLE-plugins in PJ64 (like Azimer's audio). They are faster than the standard LLE-plugin for PJ64 (Jabo's directsound).
- Use an older version of Jabo's plugins (1.20b and 1.30 are faster than 1.5).
- For older games it's the best to use SupraHLE with Gl2ideal 1.6 (if you have a voodoo, use default mode).
- Disable RSP for the most games (this will have a speed increase for them). ENABLE it for RE2. It will increase speed for this game.
- Use No sound or Ultrahle sound-plugin (takes almost no resources) for a better speed.
- Use (Dynamic) Recomplimer instead of interpreter.
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I think you know enough to get 35-50 % extra speed out of your emus.
Mightyrocket
- Many people are using PJ64, but they don't know that TR64, TRwin, 1964, Corn, UltraHLE and Nemu are a lot faster than PJ64.
- Use TRwin for Shadow of the empire. This emulator will let you enjoy it at an excellent speed on 400 mhz.
- In general: Nemu is faster than 1964 and will run the most games at full speed on a PII 450 mhz. Zelda OOT will run excellent on that system.
- Turn off your virus-scanner.
- Use a lower bit depth (32 to 16 will make a small speed increase). A lower resolution will sometimes help too.
- In 1964: You can change many things in the rom options to let your game run a lot faster. Read advanced-users.txt for a bigger explaination of these terms.
- Use CF3 instead of CF2 (1964 and PJ64). This will make a 4-10 fps speed increase (but might cause flickering in some games too).
- Use Jabo's D3D-plugins, or Glide64 if you have a voodoo. In general these plugins are the fastest (faster than Rice's, Orkins and Icepir8). For some games you can use Xengine too (fastest plugin), but it has some bugs in a few games.
- D3D plugins are in general 30% faster than OpenGL (excepting Xengine).
- Purchase a voodoo 2 or 3 card, they are very cheap, and Glide64 is the fastest plugin if you have a voodoo (many games will run at full speed on 300 mhz).
- Don't run Goldeneye on PJ64. It's running too slow.
- Use NeTo's emu64 hip. This will give you a speed-increase of 15%.
- The (U)-version is running smoother than the (E)-version.
- If you're using Azimer's audio: Use 0.13b with a buffer little lower than the default and disable ai-hack.
- Use HLE-plugins in PJ64 (like Azimer's audio). They are faster than the standard LLE-plugin for PJ64 (Jabo's directsound).
- Use an older version of Jabo's plugins (1.20b and 1.30 are faster than 1.5).
- For older games it's the best to use SupraHLE with Gl2ideal 1.6 (if you have a voodoo, use default mode).
- Disable RSP for the most games (this will have a speed increase for them). ENABLE it for RE2. It will increase speed for this game.
- Use No sound or Ultrahle sound-plugin (takes almost no resources) for a better speed.
- Use (Dynamic) Recomplimer instead of interpreter.
-
I think you know enough to get 35-50 % extra speed out of your emus.
Mightyrocket
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