Faster GBA??

iwod · November 25th, 2002

Any chance that there will be a more optimised code and therefore faster VBA?? Because some of freidns played VBA with their laptop with a PIII 733Mhz computer and still lagged a bit. ( 3X Screen )

Edit... However we discovered that when we disabled DDraw emulation only the game actually run very fast.... why is that??

jegHegy · November 25th, 2002

be sure to enable ddraw use video memory, it speeds it up a lot (only on 16bit and 32bit colordepth). anyway, as any emulator, VBA is always evolving, and probably gaining speed with every release. but one thing is for sure: using 3x video slows things down like hell. play it with 1x video, and turn on frameskip. and disable vsync.

nyaa

**cooliscool** · November 25th, 2002

Quote:

Originally posted by iwod
...However we discovered that when we disabled DDraw emulation only the game actually run very fast.... why is that??

If your video card has poor hardware support (E.G. lack of hardware scale/stretching), then those operations can be emulated, or, done by the CPU.

Phoenix · November 25th, 2002

Try the SDL Vboy emu version, if you're looking for speed

shinji^ · November 25th, 2002

VBA will probably get only faster, and if you use the SDL version, like Phoenix said, you will get extra speed (probably

). Just download always the newest VBA.

jegHegy · November 25th, 2002

well, using the SDL version under windows was actually a bit slower for me, but you could always try. or use linux ^^

nyaa

November 25th, 2002	#1 (permalink)
iwod Registered User Join Date: Jul 2001 Posts: 23	Faster GBA?? Any chance that there will be a more optimised code and therefore faster VBA?? Because some of freidns played VBA with their laptop with a PIII 733Mhz computer and still lagged a bit. ( 3X Screen ) Edit... However we discovered that when we disabled DDraw emulation only the game actually run very fast.... why is that??

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shinji^ Registered User Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Hungary Posts: 159	VBA will probably get only faster, and if you use the SDL version, like Phoenix said, you will get extra speed (probably). Just download always the newest VBA. __________________ I'm afraid of being hated... I don't want to be hated again!! [sig=275]

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November 25th, 2002	#2 (permalink)
jegHegy Registered User Join Date: May 2001 Location: Hungary Posts: 2,184	be sure to enable ddraw use video memory, it speeds it up a lot (only on 16bit and 32bit colordepth). anyway, as any emulator, VBA is always evolving, and probably gaining speed with every release. but one thing is for sure: using 3x video slows things down like hell. play it with 1x video, and turn on frameskip. and disable vsync. nyaa

November 25th, 2002	#4 (permalink)
Phoenix Ada... Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: GDL, MX Posts: 2,229	Try the SDL Vboy emu version, if you're looking for speed

November 25th, 2002	#6 (permalink)
jegHegy Registered User Join Date: May 2001 Location: Hungary Posts: 2,184	well, using the SDL version under windows was actually a bit slower for me, but you could always try. or use linux ^^ nyaa