Help with PJ64 on slow pc

[bubblesnout]

Hey everyone
Ive recently gotten into nintendo 64 emulation and was surprised when i read the system requirements for some of the emulators available. I saw the emulator 'Corn' that was supposed to be really fast. so I downloaded it and checked the compatability and was dissapointed to see a small list. I want to run Goldeneye 007 so i was told that project64 was the way to go. i downloaded it and firstly tried it with mario 64. I found that it was VERY jumpy and it ran perfect on corn. the framerate on PJ64 hung round 5. After reading some posts throughout this forum, people have said that they got PJ64 running fine for them on systems lower than mine!!! these are my specs.

Pentium III 633Mhz
156mb RAM
16mb Video (not exactly sure what card it is, not the best but works fine)

im not too worried about sound at this point.

So if anyone can help me to get Goldeneye going at a good speed please help! ive tried other emulators and found that 1964 was the fastest for goldeneye but still really sluggish. PLEASE HELP GUYS!!!!

Thanks
very grateful

 

[Clements]

The problem with Goldeneye 007 is that it is a 'high system requirement' game. It's only just fullspeed on my computer with PJ64, so your computer has no chance with PJ64.

Goldeneye 007 is very hard to emulate properly, most plugins do a fair job, but are extremely slow. Jabo's is the fastest of the lot, so I hope that video card of yours is a Voodoo card. Voodoo users should always use Glide64. I can't think of an above spec. 16MB gfx card.

If it is not a Voodoo, but a below spec. card, at the end of the day Jabo's is the only option. Use it with 1964 0.9.9 with Frameskip AND Auto-CF enabled.

Many would suggest Glide64 + eVoodoo for a card like yours, but this would be as slow as hell with Goldeneye 007, like a slide show. It's too slow on my PC let alone yours, so stick with Jabo's gfx plugin and live with any glitches.

Use schibo's audio, no RSP.

 

[-Shadow-]

It's just running on fullspeed on your system , with that graphics card ? Even with frame limiter off ? With framelimiter off it runs with around 110 Fps on my system ! I'm using 8x anisotropic texture filtering AND 4XS anti-aliasing ! I think it's your CPU that causes the "slow" performance

 

[Clements]

You lucky rich bugger! When I upgrade (hopefully very soon...) my spec'll match yours almost! Goldeneye is the most CPU intensive N64 game I can think of, and the 3200+ is definitely up to it! My 1800+ is sadly not, and I'll see if I get a boost from my 3000+ when I get it. A 633MHz Celeron on the other hand, is not up to the task to be fair.

 

[-Shadow-]

lol im not really rich , just an Overclocker
I bought an AMD Athlon 2600+ Barton and overclocked it to 2.2 Ghz . I'm not that "stupid" to buy a normal 3200+ for 350€ . I bought that mainboard cuz it unlocks the CPU-Multiplicator automatically without any CPU-Mods plus its cheap for this amazing performance !!! The only drawback : The lifespan of a normal CPU lies at 12 - 15 , an OCed one has "only" 7-9 years to live .

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

lol im not really rich , just an Overclocker
I bought an AMD Athlon 2600+ Barton and overclocked it to 2.2 Ghz . I'm not that "stupid" to buy a normal 3200+ for 350€ . I bought that mainboard cuz it unlocks the CPU-Multiplicator automatically without any CPU-Mods plus its cheap for this amazing performance !!! The only drawback : The lifespan of a normal CPU lies at 12 - 15 , an OCed one has "only" 7-9 years to live .

Does the Athlon XP processor you own have 512 KB of L2 cache?

If your Athlon XP 2600+ has 256KB of L2 cache, you have an Athlon XP 2600+ with
a T-bred processor core or a Thornton processor core, which is an Athlon XP Barton with half of the L2 cache disabled, thus is 256 KB.

 

[-Shadow-]

I bought DEFINITELY a Barton-Core-Processor and I didn't even recognize that there's already a Thornton out there....

I bought my PC with the following specs (in year 2004) :
AMD Athlon Tbird 1400MHz
40Gb HDD
Geforce 4mx
GA-7DX Mainboard
and so on....

I've upgraded him until no part of the old PC remained...