Stuck at 40-50 FPS?

[Kungaroo]

No, this is not a problem where I have a frame limiter on, I've already assured that that isn't the case, and I'm more than qualified to run PJ64.

So I've had this problem where I'd launch PJ64, play a ROM, but then realize it's running slower than it should be. Indeed, my frames would jump around from 40-50FPS, and I'm absolutely sure it isn't the case of the ROM I'm running, or my specs, this emulator came out 7 years ago, and people can run it on GeForce 2's.

My goal here is to get my frames locked at 60, so I can play these games without worrying about FPS.

Plugins: (note I've tried a wide variety of plugins, but nothing helps, and I've also tinkered with the graphic settings)

Video - Mudlord's Rice Build Video 6.1.3 - DX9
Audio - Azimer's Audio v0.21
Input - N-Rage's Direct-Input V2 1.83

Specs: (again, I'm 101% sure I'm qualified to run this)

AMD 64 Athlon X2
GeForce 7300 LE (suckish, but it should handle PJ64, it does with ePSXe)
2GB RAM

 

[DjPong]

Vsync under audio options turned on? ^^

And yes your computer is more then enough to emulate n64 games using pj64

 

[Kungaroo]

Vsync under audio options turned on?

Yes - I tried disabling it as well, using a wide variety of roms, but all of them returned the same amount of framerate as well as gargled sound.

The only game I get sufficent FPS in is Super Mario 64.

 

[DjPong]

Yes - I tried disabling it as well, using a wide variety of roms, but all of them returned the same amount of framerate as well as gargled sound.

The only game I get sufficent FPS in is Super Mario 64.

Any particular reason why you use the 3 plugins you mentioned in your first post?

The Video plugin you use can be "eating" all your resources. I prefer using the default plugin (Jabo's D3D).

Same goes for the Audio plugin, I would recommend Jabo's Directsound for that one.

The N-rage plugin is ok, too bad my emulator crashes when I turn the rumble feature on.

With those 3 plugins I get like 300 FPS when I turn the framelimiter off ingame. And I also have a AMD 64 Athlon X2 with 2 GB ram only the videocard is different. So your hardware shouldn't be the problem either.

Other potential solution:

I remember something about the CPU settings! Did you messed around with it? If yes, please restore to default (Check link for default settings)
http://www.filefrog.net/images/mKO96200.jpg

 

[Clements]

Rice's Video has slightly or sometimes considerably higher requirements than Jabo's D3D plugins with some games (especially if you use more advanced combiners or games with framebuffer effects), so I would second what DjPong says. Rice's Video does have speed advantages over Jabo's in certain other games, though (such as Mystical Ninja).

 

[X-Fi6]

On Project64 1.6, FPS doesn't stand for "frames" per second. It's "fields" per second, although in 1.7 they renamed it to "vertical interrupts" per second (VI/s).

N64 games run at 20 frames/sec for NTSC, and 15-18 frames/sec (I forgot how many exactly) for PAL.

Anyways, back on topic.

Make sure you use Jabo's Direct3d 1.6 plugin, and that sending to the RD-RAM (or whatever it's called—I don't have Project64 at this computer) is unchecked in its config settings.

 

[Kungaroo]

Thanks everyone for the overwhelmingly helpful replies, enabling both of the plugins you all suggested bumped up my FPS to 70 when uncapped, and my games run a lot more smoother now.

I appreciate it guys.

 

[Elite Knight]

X-Fi6 PAL run at 30fps.

 

[Toasty]

Yes, the actual FPS that an N64 game runs at depends on the game itself. IIRC, a few games even can run at the full 60 FPS. However, all NTSC games should run at 60 VI/s and all PAL games should run at 50 VI/s.

 

[squall_leonhart]

mudlords rice video, doesn't work properly.