First off, I want to thank the dev team for all their hard work. I was able to get mupen64 0.5 for Linux more or less working. However, I have a few problems. For some roms I get black lines and random white pixel artifacts. I saw the box in video options, so this doesn't appear to be a new problem. However, either on or off, nothing seemed to change.
I'm using X.org 7.0.22 with the ati proprietary driver 8.26.18 (the newest) all under Debian testing. I know the hardware is fine (I'm not overclocking), as my Radeon 9700 Pro is able to run Mupen64 and other N64 emulators on the same machine (it can dual boot) under Windows XP. Burn-in tests with 3DMark don't produce artifacts and I have a Zalman cooler on it so I doubt the card is overheating.
I get about 45-60 FPS on Zelda64 with Rice's plugin and fsaa cranked up, much slower speeds are detected with other plugins but the animation is very smooth so I'm not sure its reporting correctly. I tried with and without fsaa as well as the various aticonfig sync options, so I doubt the black lines or artifacts are a driver issue.
I'm using the Linux binaries provided. I have not yet tried to compile mupen myself, let me know if I should expect to have to do this.
One final item is that if I set any video plugin to a resolution above 800x600 the emulation will not start and mupen will crash. Also some video plugins will simply not work. Maybe there is a bigger issue here? Like I'm missing a library.
Any help or suggestions would be welcome. Thanks in advance.
I'm using X.org 7.0.22 with the ati proprietary driver 8.26.18 (the newest) all under Debian testing. I know the hardware is fine (I'm not overclocking), as my Radeon 9700 Pro is able to run Mupen64 and other N64 emulators on the same machine (it can dual boot) under Windows XP. Burn-in tests with 3DMark don't produce artifacts and I have a Zalman cooler on it so I doubt the card is overheating.
I get about 45-60 FPS on Zelda64 with Rice's plugin and fsaa cranked up, much slower speeds are detected with other plugins but the animation is very smooth so I'm not sure its reporting correctly. I tried with and without fsaa as well as the various aticonfig sync options, so I doubt the black lines or artifacts are a driver issue.
I'm using the Linux binaries provided. I have not yet tried to compile mupen myself, let me know if I should expect to have to do this.
One final item is that if I set any video plugin to a resolution above 800x600 the emulation will not start and mupen will crash. Also some video plugins will simply not work. Maybe there is a bigger issue here? Like I'm missing a library.
Any help or suggestions would be welcome. Thanks in advance.