speeding up emulation

[zheero]

some tweaks and tricks for your emulator

*to get all your cpu juice, try to disable all running processes while keeping your pc at its end. these processes are much like the antiviruses, softwares running in background. etc. go to task. and on the processes tab end all familiar processes. be careful not to end some of the systems processes or your pc will crash.

*add more resource. try disabling some startup programs that can consume some usages.

*another tip, go to control panel>system>advanced tab>performance>click settings then tick "adjust for best performance". this will allow you to consume cpu usage from the desktop themes. yet your desktop will look like a win 98 lol. btw when i did this my pokemon diamond speed boosted like 80% - 140% when outside. so this will help alot.

*in game settings go to options>emulation choose desired settings, tip: settings with fast subtitles are suitable for best performance.

*speed up your cpu, if your motherboard supports ai overclocking, try setting it to your desired frequency, to do this. go to bios menu, on the advanced tab select jumperfree configuration, choose ai overclocking select overclocking profile and choose the desired frequency. i chose 10% for me because when i choose a higher frequency my computer crashes.

*if you have an hyperthreading cpu. try disabling it. you'll gain a bunch of performance on the emulator. to do this. go to the bios menu. and look for cpu technology. while on dual core cpu. although the emulator supports dual core, check if its using all its cpu power. to check open task manager, right click on the emulator. go to set affinity and make sure all cpu boxes are ticked.

*set the processing priority of your emulator. to do this, open your emulator, press ctrl+alt+delete go to processes tab. right click on your emulator name select set priority and choose high. like some users said. making it on realtime will crash the emulator.


-i gained 40% of performance by doing this
-changing the video settings doesnt speed up emulation.
-if you are desperate enough to play. buy a high end pc. lol
-this guide was made for noobs and lazy gamers who doesnt use the search button.
i dont need any credits for these. have fun playing guys!

[RedOnyx]

*set the processing priority of your emulator. to do this, open your emulator, press ctrl+alt+delete go to processes tab. right click on your emulator name select set priority and choose high. like some users said. making it on realtime will crash the emulator.

Thanks for the tips! I got a big boost just from setting it to AboveNormal.

[sigmax]

Nice tips for noobs xD.

[zheero]

well yeah. and for the newcomers.

[SCHUMI_4EVER]

This only helps if you have a crap/older PC...newer ones like mine don't benefit at all.

By the way I actually finally read this today. Are you insane?....Your'e telling some random person to overclock their PC....dude if they don't know what they are doing they can completely destroy their CPU and just about every other part if they really really don't know what they are doing....especially if they don't have a ton of cooling devices in their PC. If you don't know much about PC's...and don't have at least 4 fans (if that's even enough) in your case don't even think about overclocking. Heck I know a fair bit about PC's and I will never overclock, I am too damn scared of what could happen. Oh and by the way...that's irreparable damage one could cause, in other words BANG! ...PC gone.

There is however one ABSOLUTELY SUREFIRE REVOLUTIONARY GURAN-DAMN-TEED way of increasing speed. Read Below.



















BE PATIENT AND WAIT FOR THE NEXT VERSION !!!!

[Coolsvilleman]

I agree with most things except this.

*set the processing priority of your emulator. to do this, open your emulator, press ctrl+alt+delete go to processes tab. right click on your emulator name select set priority and choose high. like some users said. making it on realtime will crash the emulator.

If your system is setup correctly this should make no difference. Then again this is for noob's who probably don't have a correctly setup system. Even so I've heard tale of people who set process' to realtime and get 50% increase which is utter B.S. unless something else in the background was talking up alot of CPU cycles. In that case your system obviously has been setup incorrectly or you are doing something stupid (running virus scanner while gaming :X ).

[ShakirMole]

so what was all that about schumi

[SCHUMI_4EVER]

? What do you mean? Overcloking is a very dangerous thing and can very easily completely destroy your PC or at least your CPU.

As for the suggestion about speed.....well it's true, it's the best way of increasing speed without all this other nonsense that as Coolsvilleman said would only help un/badly optimised systems or risking your PC's wellfare.

[sigmax]

? What do you mean? Overcloking is a very dangerous thing and can very easily completely destroy your PC or at least your CPU.

As for the suggestion about speed.....well it's true, it's the best way of increasing speed without all this other nonsense that as Coolsvilleman said would only help un/badly optimised systems or risking your PC's wellfare.

I agree with you Overcloking a pc is dangerous if you're a noob using pc.

[SCHUMI_4EVER]

I agree with you Overcloking a pc is dangerous if you're a noob using pc.

In that case it's newb....but overclocking is dangerous regardless of your experience, even experienced overclockers are known to mess up and destroy their parts.

[ShakirMole]

i meant about the big space left and waiting for the next version

[SCHUMI_4EVER]

That was for effect.....which was obviously lost somehow...

[zheero]

oh sorry if i forgot to put on that overclocking is very risky.. most of pentium processors have a technology that restarts your computer whenever it reaches a high temperature around 70-80deg i think. well that cud mean that you should revert your settings back to normal. but it wont damage you processor trust me it happened to me. reaching 80deg really freaked me out. but now it is normal. i have a 3.06ghz p4 and overclocked it to 15% where it made my processor running at 3.6ghz. it makes alot of difference. lol

[SCHUMI_4EVER]

Overheating causes damage....it may not be instant, but if a PC part is contantly overheating it's slowly but surely decreasing it's lifespan and reliability.

[vagos08]

schumi trying to tell us that even pc has a health points (HP) bar...



are they level up too?:p

[Silent Xenocide]

Jesus I can't wait till the next version. Speed upgrade would be great.

[zheero]

well yeah overheating reduces lifespan but who knows when will it stop working..

[SCHUMI_4EVER]

schumi trying to tell us that even pc has a health points (HP) bar...



are they level up too?:p

:lol: Well if one would look at the world from a gaming perspective then yeah everything has hitpoints, even a rock. ;)

PC's can "level up" by upgrading their parts (aside from the motherboard, that's a whole new pc) :p

[vagos08]

:lol: Well if one would look at the world from a gaming perspective then yeah everything has hitpoints, even a rock. ;)

PC's can "level up" by upgrading their parts (aside from the motherboard, that's a whole new pc) :p

:rotflmao::rotflmao::rotflmao::lol:

if a level 100 pc is theoretically a dual core with a geforce 8800 windows vista etc my pc is at level around 70..Whats yours?:p

[SCHUMI_4EVER]

:rotflmao::rotflmao::rotflmao::lol:

if a level 100 pc is theoretically a dual core with a geforce 8800 windows vista etc my pc is at level around 70..Whats yours?:p

Actually untill propper drivers appear XP > Vista so a level 100 PC would have XP at the moment.
Well let's see...I have XP and one of the strongest single-cores ever made (AMD Athlon64 3700+)...1GB RAM (regular old DDR400) and my graphics card is an ATI Radeon X850XT which is the 2nd/3rd best graphics card from 3 generations ago...so I think that would put me around level 55 XD

[zheero]

hey guys can you tell me what level my pc is? here's my specs

3.6 GHz p4
1GB ram
256mb video card pci express ati x700
built in soundcard
built in lan
160GB hdd
win vista

you guys are funny haha

[SCHUMI_4EVER]

Hmm.........level 45.

By the way this is a looking at a computer from a PC gaming point of view..so for instance for something like Crysis.

[zheero]

oh my. i tot my pc is ok. i played some large games like supcom and tiberium wars. even though all settings are in the lowest mode. the framerates sucks. oh my oh my.

[ShakirMole]

my pc is pretty silly but can anyone tell me what level it is and i can't level up because i don't have Gil and no training enemies are available to help me out
1.7ghz p4 ( its an acer P4VM800)
256 MB ATI Radeon 9550
1GB Ram
Windows XP SP2 Media Edition and
all regular cards, drivers etc such as sound,Lan...

[MartinJ]

Lvl 0 :rotflmao:

[sigmax]

What level is this pc lol

Intel 2 core duo 6400 2.13 ghz
NVIDIA GeForce 7300
1Gb Ram DDR2-667

Windows XP SP2 Professional and Vista

[SCHUMI_4EVER]

Hmm Level 62 for you Sigmax,

ShakirMole your's is errr...Level 30

[Hiei-YYH]

Cpu: AMD64 x2 @3.2ghz
RAM: 2gb ddr2
Video: geforce gtx8800 768mb
os: windows xp/win vista

:rolleyes:

[SCHUMI_4EVER]

Lol level 92 for you Hiei...there's not really much better that you could get at this stage aside from a Core2Duo Extreme Edition or a Quad-core or a GeForce 8800Ultra and aside and quad-core over a Core2Duo would hardly yield much better performance at this stage same as an Ultra over your GTX.
Your rating is lowered because as Athlons and Athlon64s differed from P4's as do Core2Duo's differ from AMD X2's (unless that's a FX model)

[sigmax]

Hiei-YYH level 95 exelent pc :D

SCHUMI-4-EVA what is your pc config? only curiosity:D

[SCHUMI_4EVER]

Hiei-YYH level 95 exelent pc :D

SCHUMI-4-EVA what is your pc config? only curiosity:D

I was the second person to give my PC a level. It got 55 on the previous page.

[vagos08]

well i have lower pcs specs than zheero and put my pc at lvl 70!:lol:
P4 at 2.02Ghz
1gb ram
256ram geforce 5200mx
windows XP with a TP for vista:thumb:

with schumi's hard judge that puts me around 40..:dead:

:cry:

[SCHUMI_4EVER]

Even worse lol.

I put you at level 32.

[sigmax]

well i have lower pcs specs than zheero and put my pc at lvl 70!:lol:
P4 at 2.02Ghz
1gb ram
256ram geforce 5200mx
windows XP with a TP for vista:thumb:

with schumi's hard judge that puts me around 40..:dead:

:cry:

level 42 lol

just for fun :D

my other pc oO

P4 intel celeron 2.2ghz

256Mb ram DDR 400

ATI Radeon 9200 (128mb)

Win sp2 professional

this pc suck:spy:

[SCHUMI_4EVER]

Lol that second one is very bad...it gets err...15 XD

[lll]

Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3800+(i need money for a upgrade to dual-core).
Cache: 512 kb.
Motherboard/Mainboard: MS-7260.
Chipset: Nvidia nForce 550.
Memory: DDR2 1024 Mb.

Whats my level?(dont know my grfx card but its a good one, i think its a K9N Neo)

[SCHUMI_4EVER]

K9N Neo is a motherboard...although MS-7260 also sounds like a motherboard.

You get 55 same as me for now although you have better RAM (DDR2 as opposed to 2 sticks of DDR400 512MB RAM) and a fractionately better processor, but you could have a worse card.

Edit:
Your motherboard is a MSI-7260 K9N Neo-F AM2 DDR2 motherboard.
So no clue what your graphics card is yet.

[ShakirMole]

How about this other one i have (laptop)
Dell 1.7 ghz dual core
1gb Ram
256 ATI Mobile (don't know what model)
Windows Vista + Windows XP media
160 gb HardDisk

[sigmax]

How about this other one i have (laptop)
Dell 1.7 ghz dual core
1gb Ram
256 ATI Mobile (don't know what model)
Windows Vista + Windows XP media
160 gb HardDisk

level 69 cause is a laptop :)

[SCHUMI_4EVER]

How about this other one i have (laptop)
Dell 1.7 ghz dual core
1gb Ram
256 ATI Mobile (don't know what model)
Windows Vista + Windows XP media
160 gb HardDisk

Hmm...it should be outright better than your other PC..let's see...I give it level 50 (unless the graphics card is better than I am assuming), games don't care whether you have a laptop or not...infact laptops tend to runs worse.

[MartinJ]

c'mon people lets' stop with the lvls and get to the subject at hand. If you want to do this starta new thread.:thumb:

[Hiei-YYH]

Lol level 92 for you Hiei...there's not really much better that you could get at this stage aside from a Core2Duo Extreme Edition or a Quad-core or a GeForce 8800Ultra and aside and quad-core over a Core2Duo would hardly yield much better performance at this stage same as an Ultra over your GTX.
Your rating is lowered because as Athlons and Athlon64s differed from P4's as do Core2Duo's differ from AMD X2's (unless that's a FX model)

nah, not now =p i'm good with my cpu (for now) and my video card too, no game uses that much yet, and support dx10.

[SCHUMI_4EVER]

Well Core2Duo's own X2's so unless that's an FX.

And Crysis will tax even the best system.

[vagos08]

yeah we have been entirely off topic:dead:

[SCHUMI_4EVER]

Well....not entirely...some of us report perfect speeds in some games...and some of those people also listed their PC specs here and a rating. So if their PC seems better than the relevant person...let's say me with Custom Robo Arena, then they know they should be able to play it at perfect speeds aswell.

[ShakirMole]

this thread obviously points out there is no way to improve speed easier than changing your pc and by the way
1.) What level computer is best for no$gba, desmume , and iDeaS (with specs)
2.) Is Crysis the game which requires the latest and best gaming hardware today i mean who made it?

[SCHUMI_4EVER]

1) One can't tell yet because the emu's are not done. During development an emu very possibly requires more power than the end product will. I am also pretty sure that at the current level of development of the emu's that they reach a limit of performance regardless of the PC, so it's not neccassarily better on Hiei-YYH's PC than it is on mine eventhough his PC blows mine outa the water.

2) Search the web a bit on your own, it's not released yet so there is not really a website that I can point you to that's better than any others. It's made by Crytek (makers of FarCry) and is the first game to make full use of DirectX10 and therefore looks absolutely amazing and requires an absoloute ton of power to run well.

[sigmax]

I was cleaning the basement yesterday and guess i found an old PC :D

PIII 598MGz
6.2 Hard Disk
128Mb ram
sound and 32Mb video card

win xp home edition

and no$gba works on it :lol:

[RockmanForte]

I was cleaning the basement yesterday and guess i found an old PC :D

PIII 598MGz
6.2 Hard Disk
128Mb ram
sound and 32Mb video card

win xp home edition

and no$gba woks on it :lol:

Neat find! :D

[zheero]

ahh sucks i wanna upgrade my pc but i cant find any suitable parts in this country haha. if there is, it could be the same parts as my pc have. hahahahaa

[ShakirMole]

sigmax extract the ram if u can from it and put it in yer computer u have today ie. the 2.2 ghz one and also what would be the final PC specs u would need for a DS emulator to function well i mean comparing it to other emus like VBA ie. What specs the gba runs on and how much is needed by PC in respect to it the emulator needs
My guesses are 1.7ghz , 512 Ram , 64 MB VGA card would be great i think. (obviously a guess)

[SCHUMI_4EVER]

One can't tell yet because the DS emus are still in development unlike VBA. So one can't determine their requirements yet. So you can stop asking.

[sigmax]

sigmax extract the ram if u can from it and put it in yer computer u have today ie. the 2.2 ghz one and also what would be the final PC specs u would need for a DS emulator to function well i mean comparing it to other emus like VBA ie. What specs the gba runs on and how much is needed by PC in respect to it the emulator needs
My guesses are 1.7ghz , 512 Ram , 64 MB VGA card would be great i think. (obviously a guess)

I do somethig better i put 128mb ram in the old computer now(256mb Ram) and the speed of no$gba grow up 25% :thumb:

i love to make test on old computers :D

Custom Robo Arena goes to 75-87% in battle

[PRprince]

i remember in middle school, i tried to disconnect a ram board to a pc that was still connected to the electricity, needless to say my hand got numb from the electrocution for a week ! :heh: