Please help me! Horrible performance!

[The Phenom]

Could somebody help me? I try to play some N64 games using the latest version of Project 64, and the frame rates are horrible. Everything is choppy and the sound is choppy and it's completely unplayable. Some games work beautifully, such as WWF War Zone or Mario 64. But the games that are acting stupid are games like Goldeneye 007 and Yoshi's Story. There's more but that's just some examples.

What is wrong? It's not my computer, as it's decent enough to play games like Medal of Honor or Grand Theft Auto VC for PC. I've tried using other emulators, but I've never been able to figure them out. Someone told me about using different plugins, but I have no idea which ones to use.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!!!

 

[Smiff]

those games are slower in pj64 than most... i dunno what an Intel 82845 is but it might be bad. also a celeron 2.0Ghz.. probably not as fast as it should be for that clock speed... you could have a problem with the PC or you might need to use something faster like 1964 http://1964emu.emulation64.com/ maybe.

also have you got SP1, some people say it helps a bit in yoshi... pj64.emulation64.com/support/

 

[Clements]

Even some high-end PCs aren't able to play games like Goldeneye and Yoshi's Story with the default plugins, these are slow games, so for these switch to 1964 (faster, but less stable) and use a different plugin if it's still slow.

Try using the Unofficial Daedalus plugin (in download section, you may have to search for it) as it is fast with 2D games or Glide 0.42 + eVoodoo 3.99 beta (details of how to use this combination are in the eVoodoo forum) although this can be slow too. Stick with Jabo's Plugin for Goldeneye though, it's the fastest.

 

[The Phenom]

Thanks, I'll try :1964: again, it wasn't very nice to me last time I used it. Goldeneye was still slow when I last tried playing it with 1964 using Jabo's plugin.

 

[nephalim]

If you don't care about sound, using the no sound plugin will speed things up dramatically.

Use fullscreen. Lower the resolution (640x480 is sufficient for every game, AFAIK)

Try Neto's Speed-Up Application. I forget what/where the thread was, I think it's "get more speed out of your emus."

Other than "try other plugins/emulators," "get a new computer," and make sure the ini is using the correct settings for the game (PJ64 SP1 speeds up a lot of games,) that's all the advice I can give. There are lots of other small stuff but nothing that will speed up a game dramatically.

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

those games are slower in pj64 than most... i dunno what an Intel 82845 is but it might be bad. also a celeron 2.0Ghz.. probably not as fast as it should be for that clock speed... you could have a problem with the PC or you might need to use something faster like 1964 http://1964emu.emulation64.com/ maybe.

also have you got SP1, some people say it helps a bit in yoshi... pj64.emulation64.com/support/

The Intel 828xx video is slow. With the Intel 828xx video, you will be lucky to run full *ANY* game full speed at 640x480, but even then, Jabo's GFX will have major GFX errors and often majorly slow. People with the integrated Intel video hardware
often will find they are required to drop the resolution to 400x300
or 512x384 to get good FPS at all. Also, will fail init with 32 BPP Direct3D (Only supports 16 BPP Direct3D). El cheapo video.

 

[The Phenom]

The Intel 828xx video is slow. With the Intel 828xx video, you will be lucky to run full *ANY* game full speed at 640x480, but even then, Jabo's GFX will have major GFX errors and often majorly slow. People with the integrated Intel video hardware
often will find they are required to drop the resolution to 400x300
or 512x384 to get good FPS at all. Also, will fail init with 32 BPP Direct3D (Only supports 16 BPP Direct3D). El cheapo video.

Actually, this is Intel's latest onboard video chip, and it's not nearly as slow as you may think. The 82845 absolutely blows away the 82810 graphics. Like I said I can play games such as WWF War Zone and Mario 64 full screen at 1024 x 768 resolution with no slowdown at all.

 

[CLSugarman]

"onboard" says it all, get a real gfx card. the only realy why you are probably getting that high speed is probably CPU (altho Celeron is still horrible). Mario64 ran at full speed too, ON MY 400MHZ CPU w/ UltraHLE and V3 3000. Who gets a Celeron and an onboard video card. C'MON PEOPLE!