Soul calibur is running slowly on my computer...

[Crucible]

Anyone know why this is? I have an athlon xp 3000+, geforce fx 5900, 1 GB ddr ram. Is this too slow for it?

 

[revl8er]

I was having the same problem, the game is playable to me but I just was wondering if it was possible to get full speed.

 

[-Shadow-]

Loppsider said that it's running around 60 fps on his 2 x 2,5Ghz Dual CPU workstation lain:

 

[DJ-FrosT]

It's very playable to me as well.. it runs around 40 FPS on my PC unlike dead or alive 2 (slow motion) hehe.... but it would be nice to get at least 60 FPS. I have Pentium 4 2.8 Ghz OC to 3 Ghz, 2 GB of ram, and GeForce 6800 GT overclocked to 6800 Ultra speeds.... lol.... and I still get low frame rates on the emulator o_0

 

[dreamer]

im getting good enough speeds on it with a much slower computer than you guys, but my FPS is out of 30, i get around 28/30 and this seems to run well for me.

radeon 9600 256 mb
pentium 4 @ 2.53 ghz
512 mb ram

 

[Clements]

Anyone know why this is? I have an athlon xp 3000+, geforce fx 5900, 1 GB ddr ram. Is this too slow for it?

Since Dreamcast is a powerful console, a higher end system would be required to get decent playable speeds. You have adequate specs for it to be playable, but since the emulator still has some bugs it may cause hiccups in the frame rate in certain stages, which is entirely normal. I experience slowdowns with my 3200+, as well as sections where the game runs too fast. You can make the game run faster by underclocking the emulated Dreamcast CPU with the + & - keys for now. When a frame limiter is implemented later on, it'll be easier to control the frame rate than it is now.

 

[loopsider]

Loppsider said that it's running around 60 fps on his 2 x 2,5Ghz Dual CPU workstation lain:

better news: it runs 60 FPS on my XP 2600. for some reason it only does it when im using my projecter at 800x600. but otherwise I only get 50 FPS in game with CPU at 120. Sometimes I do get 60 FPS with the CPU at either 112 or 114, but I get slowdown. 50 FPS is playable enough, but could you state exactly how fast your getting it(to the original poster).

Right now 1024x768 is a bit to much to expect at full speed. I like the lowest setting sometimes because it looks just like the real thing on a TV.

 

[Burnpro]

in my machine it run 48-52 fps, you may thing the game look good at that speed but isnt, the real thing run at full 60fps and 50 fps is slow compared to that, believe me you will be playing "slow" on a real dreamcast if you master it on chankast.

My rig: athlon xp 2700+ @ 2800+ / 512 ddr400 / geforce 4 mx-440 128mb

 

[loopsider]

in my machine it run 48-52 fps, you may thing the game look good at that speed but isnt, the real thing run at full 60fps and 50 fps is slow compared to that, believe me you will be playing "slow" on a real dreamcast if you master it on chankast.

My rig: athlon xp 2700+ @ 2800+ / 512 ddr400 / geforce 4 mx-440 128mb

it is a noticeable difference, as I've achieved it with some OC'ing of both my processor and the Chankast emulated CPU, its not THAT much faster though. Theres a mission battle mode that you can get a lot of SPEED UPs, and getting one speed up at 50 FPS is around 60 FPS.

I dont know why I get 60 FPS on my projector though, it is awesome that it can do that.

 

[loopsider]

some stuff that works:

I get 62 FPS while using the lowest resolution setting fullscreen.

I can get the same FPS with 800x600 with the priority above normal and CPU at 110(110 seems to make everything stable and lets you not have slowdown).

 

[veritron]

Well, you have to OC the processor (in-game) up to between 110% -120% to get Soul Caliber to run decently - if Soul Caliber's gagging at 30 fps on your machine, that's probably why.