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morpheusx

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soul calibur fps

I'm not sure if my fps for soul calibur is really low or medium,can somone tell me if it's dangeroudly low,just to get some insight is all,so i can tweak it as much as i can,i over clocked the heck out of the cpu,chankast finally crashed at 918 lmao!!

I mean i think i have a decent system,nothing to woo hoo about,just a humble p4 2ghz with 256mb of ram, 64mb GeForce4 mx 440 graphics card w/the lastest drivers installed "56.72" am i missing anything guys? if so,i'd love to hear what yall have to say :0)

80gig C: and a 20gig D: samsung cd-r/dvd combo drive E: pioneer ao5 dvd-r
 

fivefeet8

-= Clark Kent -X- =-
16/60 fps? That's pretty low. If you've got a P4 2ghz with a 400 mhz FSB, then that might be why. Also, what kind of ram you got? DDR? I'm thinking SDR. That could be another reason as well.
 

fivefeet8

-= Clark Kent -X- =-
Here are some of my Soul Calibur screenshots. Done at Full Screen 1024x768, 16xS FSAA!!!, 16xAF. Runs pretty much full speed and more. ;) Me needs a FPS limiter.


 

posty_2k3

T3h pwn3r3r
Omg... Nice speeds you got there fivefeet8. I get half that speed with 4xAA on >_> Has to be my stupid 1800+ Athlon XP, along with all the apps i had in the background, lol.
 

fivefeet8

-= Clark Kent -X- =-
posty_2k3 said:
Omg... Nice speeds you got there fivefeet8. I get half that speed with 4xAA on >_> Has to be my stupid 1800+ Athlon XP, along with all the apps i had in the background, lol.

Hehe. Thanks. Those were actually with Myie2, Shareeza, Daemon, and fraps running in the background.
 

Strange

New member
fivefeet8
Hmm - amazing fps with such a high FSAA ratio... Heh, looks like your 6800U is really kick ass accelerator ;)
 

cooliscool

Nintendo Zealot
morpheusx said:
I'm not sure if my fps for soul calibur is really low or medium,can somone tell me if it's dangeroudly low,just to get some insight is all,so i can tweak it as much as i can,i over clocked the heck out of the cpu,chankast finally crashed at 918 lmao!!

I mean i think i have a decent system,nothing to woo hoo about,just a humble p4 2ghz with 256mb of ram, 64mb GeForce4 mx 440 graphics card w/the lastest drivers installed "56.72" am i missing anything guys? if so,i'd love to hear what yall have to say :0)

80gig C: and a 20gig D: samsung cd-r/dvd combo drive E: pioneer ao5 dvd-r

16FPS? I get 35-40 ingame and about 66 in the menus. :p

If you have a willy p4 that'd prolly be it. Even if you do you should prolly close out some of that stuff running in your taskbar.
 

desertboy

Xbox N64 Emulation Fanatic
cooliscool said:
16FPS? I get 35-40 ingame and about 66 in the menus. :p

If you have a willy p4 that'd prolly be it. Even if you do you should prolly close out some of that stuff running in your taskbar.


I've got a P4 2.4ghz with paired ddr ram (1/2 gig) and I get around 30-40 FPS in game and 60+ on menus.

My GFX card is a substandard fx5200
 

desertboy

Xbox N64 Emulation Fanatic
desertboy said:
I've got a P4 2.4ghz with paired ddr ram (1/2 gig) and I get around 30-40 FPS in game and 60+ on menus.

My GFX card is a substandard fx5200


With Hyperthreading active I can actually encode a dvd 2 divx at the same time with almost no performance degradation (After playing with the affinity in task manager and as long as the dvd is on a different HD to Chankast and iso's.)

My HD's are serial ATA's.

::Sorry for the 2 posts I must have clicked quote rather than edit.

Sorry for the size of the pic

Chankast is running on CPU1 Nandub on CPU2 (Virtual CPU's obviously.)
 
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emcsquared

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can anyone tell me if this is ok, im getting 14 fps at most on all games. I got windows xp, 1.4ghz celeron, 640mb ram, and got a radeon 9000 with 128mb. Now im well aware that its still early in the stages but even a simple Samba De Amigo game and Ikaruga is stuck and 14 and less. I tried to put my ati settings at all preformance, but nothing happend. I closed as many applications as i can, and even resized that Chanka window like about 1inch by 1inch on the screen, and Soul Caliur is still 14. Can anyone tell me if this is normal with my comp specs?
 

Strange

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Man, your CPU is really crap - thats the point, even Duron1200 much faster than your Celeron... But maybe 15fps is still low for it... or maybe not...
 

-indecisive-

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wow, that's pretty amazing that you can encode a dvd and run chankast without a performance decrease with ht.
anyway, i get super crappy fps with my 1.2 ghz celeron and gf2 mx. i can see now that this probably won't be ported to the xbox after all, right desertboy haha
i really need to upgrade my computer, and let's hope xbox 2 will have the same emulator potential so it'll be able to run a port of chankast
 

Warlock

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I am using a XP2600+ (2.133 GHz), have 512 mb DDR SDRAM, and an S3 ProSavageDDR video card. My fps in the menus is about 26-31. ingame, i dunno, cause the emulator crashes immediately after i press anything but art gallery and options. :yucky:
 

Strange

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Just change your videocard and all.
Hmm - just tryed 61.36 Forceware - big fps increase in 1024x768 with FSAA8x(66-70fps the same as with 640x480)! But 8x looking like 4x now... Anyway really great result...
wow, that's pretty amazing that you can encode a dvd and run chankast without a performance decrease with ht.
lol - on the screen he is just in game menu - any machine will show high fps in it... And about HT - its not that good as all think about it - its just makes 2 logical CPU cores and nothing more - performance increase with it about 5-7% only... Any powerfull CPU even without HT can handle such a load.
 
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mezkal

Man on a mission
Warlock, the S3 doesn't support a fully functioning Transform and Lighting (TnL) engine in hardware. Chankast requires it. You will need to upgrade to at least Geforce 4MX to run it.

Cheers,

Mezkal
 

cooliscool

Nintendo Zealot
Strange said:
Man, your CPU is really crap - thats the point, even Duron1200 much faster than your Celeron... But maybe 15fps is still low for it... or maybe not...

Well, he has a Tualatin.. for sure he could hit at least 1.7GHz. :D And indecisive.. yes, Chankast runs like ass on my PC whilst at 1.2GHz, but thank the lord the Tualatin is a very good OCer, at 1.8GHz Chankast runs amazingly well.. you should really consider OCing that 1.2. :) Also, simply due to the fact that the P6 Core executes SSE instructions very fast, it should be running better than that, infact, better than a 1.2 Duron. I haven't really tested SC at 1.2GHz.. maybe I will.

I've got a 700MHz Cumine Celeron in my PC right now, testing it out for a friend.. will run Chankast on it and see how it runs. :p
 
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cooliscool

Nintendo Zealot
mezkal said:
Warlock, the S3 doesn't support a fully functioning Transform and Lighting (TnL) engine in hardware. Chankast requires it. You will need to upgrade to at least Geforce 4MX to run it.

Cheers,

Mezkal

GeForce 4 MX? Er, no, the GeForce256 has a fully functional TnL unit. Infact, TnL was introduced with the GeForce256.
 

fivefeet8

-= Clark Kent -X- =-
Strange said:
Just change your videocard and all.
Hmm - just tryed 61.36 Forceware - big fps increase in 1024x768 with FSAA8x(66-70fps the same as with 640x480)! But 8x looking like 4x now... Anyway really great result...

You've got an Nv3x video right Strange. In that case, 8xAA doesn't work properly with the newer 61.xx forcewares and Nv3x hardware. The reason why it looks like 4x only is because it's only doing 2xSS. The 4x Multisampling part is broken for Nv3x hardware with the 61.xx drivers. Essentially, your only getting 2xSS and not the 4xMS part in 8xAA(actually 8xS).

The 61.xx drivers and 8xAA works fine on Nv40's though. THe drivers were designed to use the Nv40's new RGMS AA. So on 6800 cards, 8xAA(8xS) actually does 2xSS*4xMS. Nv3x hardware doesn't have a RGMS mode. It only does OGMS AA.
 

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