possible to speed up Glide 64?

[Van Halen Man]

Is there any way to make glide 64 run faster?

[Iconoclast]

Depends on the game you're playing for one thing.
Also depends on your system. If you got some specs and info about your computer to post here, that would help determination of this answer.

I'm sure legends got a nice set of preferences for various Glide64 wrappers as well.

[Van Halen Man]

Well lets see here:

OS: Win xp (home)
Processor: AMD Athlon 64X2 Duel core processor 3600+ 2.0 GHz
Memory: about 1 gig
gfx card: NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE 256 MB memory

that is all I can think of to post

edit: Oh yeah, and the game I need it for is Perfect Dark (for the IR scanner)

[mudlord]

If you give me some time, I might make a optimized build for you.....

[Van Halen Man]

uhh, give you some what?
oh woops, i didnt see "time" there. heh

[mudlord]

(whoops double post)

[Van Halen Man]

Yeah sorry about that, I didnt see it there for some reason. oops

Edit: heh, something keeps happening while I am typing my edit or post and then I have to edit it. HEH

[Legend]

Well, first make sure what you're using is from my post. Second, enabled HWFB. Third, make sure your not using any "wrapper" filters and a res. below that of 1280x1024. Fourth, try using CF=2. If still unhappy, you can use Jabo's 1.6 (or perferably Jabo's 1.7), you'll get better FPS with FB effects but not the accuracy or all the FB effects supported as with Glide64. Try 1964. Watch your opengl settings as they also will affect your performance. Or wait to see if Mudlord can optimize this a little.

[Gonetz]

I guess, you want special effects in Perfect Dark, like spycam or IR scanner, run faster, because everything else should work with decent speed on your system. Well, first, be sure that "motion blur" and "hardware frame buffer emulation" options are enabled. If it's still slow, click "wrapper" button, and in wrapper's settings enable "use framebuffer objects". Use 1964 for Perfect Dark.

[mudlord]

okay, I'm back....

Van Halen Man, try the attached wrapper. It was compiled with MSVC2005 with maximum speed optimizations (its a optimizing compiler, just like ICC). Also, several tweaks were done on the inner loops of the texture/FBO HWFBE copying techniques (no texture cache changes were done, since ziggy now fixed the memory leaks completely)....


For this to work best, you must enable "use framebuffer objects". This was tested with

- Mario Kart 64 (full speed "read-every frame")
- Banjo-Kazooie (same as above)
- 1080 Snowboarding (makes a large difference...See for yourself...)
- Bomberman 64 (same as above)