Gens win32 strange and erratic problems

[danko1]

when using Gens Emulator, it often starts slow and the scrolling static is slow. other times is much too fast at +80 fps, and runs as so until always 10 or so minutes when it becomes very slow again.http://www.zophar.net/wwwthreads/smilies/2gunsfiring_v1.gif
http://www.zophar.net/wwwthreads/smilies/2gunsfiring_v1.gif I am messing with no options, no vsync, or otherwise, and this happens with SCD or SMD emulation. this ruins my game play and I must restart windows98 to solve, but only sometimes, and only for 10 minutes!?! what is happening?.

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[CEpeep]

Have you tried using Kega Fusion instead? Give it a shot and see if it solves your problem.


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[The 9th Sage]

> when using Gens Emulator, it often starts slow and the
> scrolling static is slow. other times is much too fast at
> +80 fps, and runs as so until always 10 or so minutes when
> it becomes very slow

Might it have something to do with Vsync or something being turned on? I've never had that problem myself...I suppose that if Vsync was turned on and your full screen refresh rate was different than Windowed that could cause something like this, but if it's doing it on it's own then I'm not sure. Do you have any major background processes running?

And also, what are your settings as far as things like frameskipping?

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[danko1]

> Might it have something to do with Vsync or something being
> turned on? I've never had that problem myself...I suppose
> that if Vsync was turned on and your full screen refresh
> rate was different than Windowed that could cause something
> like this, but if it's doing it on it's own then I'm not......


no to all of these things--- these are not a issue. I am not a fool, and I understand the principles of VSync, which is not useful to me. my system is pentium 2 400, 64mb ram, win98se, and please do not laugh. sometimes gens runs +50/60 fps with 2xsai,44100,hq, and all else, most of all it runs at 2 fps, and after about ten minutes, which it goes to 2 frames, no matter of what I have done. I have much more to worry about besides playing games, such as life, and it seems this emu written in visual C is a source of constant annoyance in mine. this is what yu get with visual C, is it not?http://www.zophar.net/wwwthreads/smilies/banghead.gif


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[danko1]

> Have you tried using Kega Fusion instead? Give it a shot
> and see if it solves your problem.
it seems kega fusion is a better emulator, however it only runs at 7fps,
Sonic The Hedgehog, so there must be some problem relating to these emulators, which does not bother anything else(like epsxe, quake, or djgpp and fasm) I have now noticed Gens corrupts erratically from 344,840 bytes to always 403,968. I have little idea as to what is causing this, it is not a virus, and setting to read-only will do nothing to prevent it. I will investigate further the difference, as this seems to be specific to gens. is gens self modifying? i think not..

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[SirDaShadow]

> no to all of these things--- these are not a issue. I am not
> a fool, and I understand the principles of VSync, which is
> not useful to me. my system is pentium 2 400, 64mb ram,
> win98se, and please do not laugh. sometimes gens runs +50/60
> fps with 2xsai,44100,hq, and all else, most of all it runs

WHAT THE FUCK? 64MB of ram? You are running out of memory! Dude, get a better machine.
And don't think of using 2xsai on ANY emulator unless you have at least 1GHZ!
44.1KHZ and HQ? Don't be ridiculous!


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[The 9th Sage]

> WHAT THE FUCK? 64MB of ram? You are running out of memory!
> Dude, get a better machine.
> And don't think of using 2xsai on ANY emulator unless you
> have at least 1GHZ!
> 44.1KHZ and HQ? Don't be ridiculous!

Agreed. The HQ filter takes a really beefy machine to run at a solid framerate. A P2 400 is NOT going to run it well. Performance would vary a bit from game to game depending on how heavy the graphics are (er, I mean how complex really), but you would still need a fast machine either way.

Btw, I've never had any of these problems with Gens you are experiencing, so I don't believe it's Gens that is the problem.

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[Wren]

Actually, it's not so ridiculous. I was running KGen and Genecyst on a weaker machine with about the same amount of memory years ago. It could possibly be a spyware, virus or simply Windows related problem

-Wren.

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[SirDaShadow]

> Actually, it's not so ridiculous. I was running KGen and
> Genecyst on a weaker machine with about the same amount of
> memory years ago. It could possibly be a spyware, virus or
> simply Windows related problem
Kgen and Genecyst's target CPU's and OS are P166 MMX and DOS. They really don't tax a 400mhz processor. Gens on the other hand is a win32 app and requires at least a P266 or better and that's plain vanilla with no enhancements. You do have a point with the spyware/virus tho, it seems like something in his computer is making the program swap out (and hence the slowdown)




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