Getting low FPS with Soul Calibur.

[piothepio]

I'm getting a puny 35-40 FPS with chankast when running soul calibur. I'm thinking it's the video card but I don't know.

Pc Specs
P4 2.6 GHz Hyper Threading
512 MB DDR
Nvidia GeForce MX 440 64 MB

Soon to be
P4 2.6 GHz Hyper Treading Technology
1 GB DDR RAM
Radeon x800gt 256 MB

You think the upgrade will solve my problems or is there a setting I can change?

 

[Guru64]

The speed seems to be ok. You can try over/underclocking the emulator. Also, the speed may be different if you choose a different stage.

 

[piothepio]

It goes wicked slow though. It feels like I put in a slomo cheat. Are my specs good? How can I overclock the emu?

 

[piothepio]

Anybody?

 

[Clements]

You need to underclock the emulated CPU to get a faster FPS. To do this, press the - key on you keyboard. The cause of the problem is not the video card, but the processor - it's a bit too slow for 60fps. Upgrading the video card will not boost the framerate to 60fps.

 

[MasterFidget]

I'm getting the exact same problem and I have about the same system too. 2.4Ghz and a GeForce 420 MX.

I've been experimenting with under and overclocking and it doesn't seem to affect the game much at all. I'm thinking that the GeForce is the weak link. I've gone up to about 200% overclocking and sits at about the same. I've also tried closing every program on my computer and that does nothing.

I've been trying to use some of the chankast utilities, but they seem to be for .20 instead of .25 since they don't recognize my chankast and won't unpack.

I'm not quite sure what else I can do.

 

[PsyMan]

Well... I have a GeForce 2MX and I'm getting constant 60/60 fps. As Clements said, it's not the video card.

 

[MasterFidget]

I underclocked to like 60% and it helped a ton. The game is still slow, but much closer to usual and everything is much smoother. I always turn on above normal priority and the capcom hack to try to get more performance. It keeps telling me I'm pushing about 30 fps out of 30, but its certainly an improve.

Is there anything else worth trying? You guys made a big difference already.

 

[flowrent]

I have a 1400 mhz Duron/256 ram and i get 32 fps ,with the game overclocked to 115 .
A friend of mine has a a Athlon XP 2000+ ( 1662 mhz real frequency) and 256 ram and he gets only 35 fps with the same settings as mine.Not to mention his video card is much better than mine.
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Is that supposed to happen ? Chankast doesnt like performance rating cpu's ?
So actually ,in this case Chankast uses 1662 mhz and not 2000 ?
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Would Intels work better than Amd's because they have a real frequency cpu?

 

[Agozer]

Would Intels work better than Amd's because they have a real frequency cpu?

I think it's the other way around.

 

[flowrent]

CPU power = mhz power + cpu architecture (bus,caches etc) ..right ?
Pentium has more mhz power than a AMD ,because Amd's have a lower real frequency.
But the overall cpu power is equal or even better for AMD's because of their architecture.
And does Chankast use the overall cpu power or just the raw mhz power?
It uses the floating point and/or integer capabilities of a cpu ?
I found some very interesting cpu charts on Tom's Hardware,and i think those will answer a lot of questions about the amd-vs-intel issue .But i don't see a Chankast benchmark there so i'm asking which benchmark there is more relevant for what Chankast needs in a cpu ?