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DSmuME lag

Discussion in 'Technical Help' started by FormalMoogle, Jun 12, 2013.

  1. FormalMoogle

    FormalMoogle Well-Known Member

    I am currently playing through Soul Silver again and I have an incredible amount of lag. I dunno how I could fix the settings to allow the game to run smoother. I am using DSmuME 0.99 x 86 on a laptop that has 1.7ghz with 4GB of Ram.
    3D settings:
    Soft Ras with both Edge Marking and Fog off.

    Sound:
    Interpolation set at none with the buffer size at 5000.

    Emulation settings:
    I have "use external bios" unchecked.

    I don't know what else to set for the emulator.
     
    FormalMoogle, Jun 12, 2013
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  2. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    1.7ghz is very slow, and I'm guessing its a mobile processor (i.e laptop/netbook)?

    There might not be a whole lot you can do.
     
    Loonylion, Jun 12, 2013
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  3. TBreaker

    TBreaker Well-Known Member

    Try changing Display Method to DirectDraw SW and uncheck Limit framerate under Frame Skip.
     
    TBreaker, Jun 12, 2013
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  4. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    sw rendering is likely to be even slower.
     
    Loonylion, Jun 12, 2013
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  5. TBreaker

    TBreaker Well-Known Member

    Huh? On my DeSmuME SW rendering is faster than HW rendering.
     
    TBreaker, Jun 12, 2013
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  6. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    SW rendering makes the host CPU do all the graphics work in addition to the CPU emulation rather than offloading the graphics onto the specialised hardware on the graphics card.
     
    Loonylion, Jun 12, 2013
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  7. FormalMoogle

    FormalMoogle Well-Known Member

    Well, I played around with the setting some more and then changed the display as well, but it still didn't work out that well. Thanks anyway, though. I might as well play when I get home.
     
    FormalMoogle, Jun 13, 2013
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