Emulation Trouble (It's not the emulator)

Arrow · February 13, 2007, 03:58:25 AM

For some reason, with all my emulators, I've been getting slow speeds, garbled, crackly sound, and really crappy response.

This started at about the same time as I was banned...That's as much of a time signature as I can gather. I noticed it first when I was writing a song for Yami's contest in Mario Paint. It was like I said, slow, garbled, crackly. I blamed ZSNES, and left it at that. Then I went to play Earthbound 2 on my Visual Boy Advance. Same deal, but worse. Optimized everything I could in the emulator, but not it's still just as bad as ZSNES was.

I opened ZSNES tonight, and now it's SLOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW...Like, NO response.

What might the cause of this be? I freed as many resources as I could, optimized the emulators, etc...what else is there to do?

AlwaysIdeas · February 13, 2007, 08:38:11 AM

I don't know about the speed but have you checked your sound drivers and made sure they are working properly and have the latest update for them?

Nightwolf · February 13, 2007, 10:00:12 AM

Maybe the settings are bad.

But yes for me too, all high graphic games (not like pokemanz) are slow

Arrow · February 13, 2007, 12:43:00 PM

I did check sound, and I tried with/without hardware accelaration...but not since I altered settings. Lemme try again.

Edit: Looked at it- No dice.

Lord Dante · February 14, 2007, 04:34:56 AM

i forget. Do you install emulators? are you sure it isnt the ROM?

Arrow · February 15, 2007, 02:15:05 AM

You CAN, somehow, but you don't have to. And it's not the rom, it happens with all of them...

Here's something interesting though:

When I use the speed button (supah fast cutscene skipper, you know the one) and I let go, it's fine for a few seconds. Then the echoing starts up again.

I THINK the echo effect is "on", even though it says it's off...turning it on doesn't do anything though...

Also, uit worked just fine for about an hour last night. I was elated, but then it got borked.

Lominisio · February 15, 2007, 02:16:45 AM

My guess would be a crappy computer. If it was made before the year 2000, you'll have bad luck trying to run emulators. Just because the computers are so slow compaired to what's needed now.

Arrow · February 15, 2007, 02:29:24 AM

That's the thing, I got this computer the Christmas before last.

Lominisio · February 15, 2007, 02:36:13 AM

I'm assuming it's still a slow computer issue. Try searching for spyware and adware. That's what I'd do.

Arrow · February 15, 2007, 03:24:41 AM

Hmmm...I DO have Norton, so that IS possible...I'll check that out.