N64 lower grapics plugins?

[Starfox1000]

I am trying to use a emulator at school but it's REALLY slow


anybody got any grapics plugins that are faster?



(i don't mind if the grapics are bad)

I am using project 64 emulator

[Doomulation]

Most of the time, it's the core that sucks CPU cycles. Jabo's sound plugin, being LLE, also sucks CPU cycles. The RSP too.
The best way to get a speed boost is to try another emulator. 1964 is a fast one. There's also a speed guide pinned in the 1964 forum I think.

[Iconoclast]

Actually, the graphics plugin affects emulation speed the most. Next on the list is the emulator. The audio plugin, Jabo's DirectSound, is comparitivly inferior to these two things. Whether I use schibo's, Azimer's or Jabo's, I have seen no worthy difference in emulation speed between these plugins with the speed limiter off. Despite being LLE, it is still inferior in affecting speed.

1964 is, indeed, the fastest decent core N64 emulator. It also comes with a very, very fast graphics plugin, which runs the fastest on 1964 in particular, unless your system is incapable of or very bad at emulation through DirectX.

Now, here's a tutorial for you to experiement. Obtain the ROM known as Virtual Chess 64. Try using the following emulator-graphics plugin combos to emulate the game.

1. Project64, Jabo's Direct3D 8
2. 1964, Rice's Daedalus 5.2.0
3. Mupen64, Glide64
4. Nemu64, Nemu64 Graphics

You'll notice that Nemu64 is the slowest emulator, not just for its heavy CPU usage, while 1964 is the fastest core emulator. In Nemu64, however, the primary reason for the slow speed is the default graphics plugin it comes with, not the emulator. Change Nemu64's graphics plugin with the F8 keyboard shortcut to something like Jabo's Direct3D. Much faster, now, though a little bit more faster when using Project64 here.

Now, 1964's speed limiter is set to On at default, so while the game is running, press F9 to turn it off. Look at that speed fly. 450 FPS, on my system.

As for Mupen64, it's going to be at a constant 60 FPS, because though there is a speed limiter for this emulator and an option to turn it off, it is difficult to access easily. It's not a good emulator for those who often turn off the speed limiter.

[Toasty]

In any event, try posting the specs of the computer you're using, Starfox1000. If it's a 75MHz Pentium or something like that, there's no amount of tweaking that will give you decent speed.

[Starfox1000]

i don't know the schools pc specs since i don't own them.


the only plugin that works in school is (that has ok grapics) 1964ogl.dll but i get 6 FPS!!!

the plugins that come with project 64 says something about direct3d (not sure if the school has it)

[Doomulation]

You can check the specs anyway. Goto Start -> Run and type dxdiag, then enter. You'll find the specs on the main page. Goto display to find the graphics card. My guess it that the computers are crap, and that achieving good speed will be hard, if not impossible.

[Starfox1000]

The menu is blocked by the school............

[Clements]

If you can't access the run prompt, and the School is using Windows 2000 or XP, create a shortcut to C:\$Windir$\system32\dxdiag.exe

$Windir$ being the name of the Windows directory, normally either WINNT or WINDOWS. That normally gets around it. Chances are the hardware is extremely outdated, though.

[Starfox1000]

When i try to open it a message says i don't have privileges to open.


but i normaly get past this but making it into a zip folder but does not work for the shorcut.

(that is what i do to open project 64 and it works.)


so what should i do?

[Doomulation]

Chances are they've blocked execution of all applications but the ones they've specified. Can you access System, though? Control Panel -> System. Or Windows Key + Pause.
You can also try to run msinfo32.exe or download CPU-Z and run it if you're allowed to.