Posted: 12/30/2014 7:29 PM
Post subject: bsnes core - very slow
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puppy610
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I have been trying to use BizHawk instead of Snes9x for recording movies but BizHawk is being very slow even while I am not making a TAS. No matter how high I turn up the speed it just stays the same... slow. If anyone can help I would very much appreciate it! Thank you! [adelikat]: Edited the topic name to be a bit more specific
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Posted: 12/30/2014 7:51 PM
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Pokota
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What are your system specs? BizHawk uses BSNES for the SNES Core, so if you have trouble running BSNES you'll have trouble with BizHawk in SNES mode.
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Posted: 12/30/2014 7:54 PM
Post subject: Specs
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puppy610
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I have a Windows 8 ASUS laptop. CPU: AMD A8 - 4500M 1.9GHz Memory: 4GB HDD: 223 GB (It is a brand new SSD. I literally just bought it and installed like 5 programs on it.)
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Posted: 12/30/2014 7:56 PM
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Download higan from byuu.org and see what framerates you get.
Posted: 12/30/2014 8:36 PM
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zeromus
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please define "slow" by displaying the framerate and recording the number and write which bizhawk version youre using, otherwise we have to assume youre using version real.old.slow
Posted: 12/30/2014 9:12 PM
Post subject: "Slow"
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puppy610
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Ok. Now I have a new problem. So my old hard drive had BizHawk on it. I tried downloading version 1.9.1 on my new SSD. I got the prereqs and ran it. I let it load a while until it was done. When it was done it said it completed and I clicked "Close." Then I tried running BizHawk. It did not load AT ALL. (Meaning when I double clicked it it did nothing.) I tried multiple times and it still didn't work. And with my old hard drive it was slow. I can't really get the framrate cuz I don't have it in my PC atm. Thanks!
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Posted: 12/30/2014 10:50 PM
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FractalFusion
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- BizHawk 1.7.0 and later are known not to work on some video cards (mainly older computers); it certainly doesn't work for me on the computer I am using now. - For BizHawk version earlier than 1.7.0, the SNES portion could possibly be made faster by disabling the "Use Ring Buffer IO". To do this, load a SNES ROM, then go SNES -> Options and uncheck "Use Ring Buffer IO". I say "could possibly" because I don't know what your problem specs are, but disabling this option makes it much faster if your computer is single-core. It may still be slow though.
Posted: 12/30/2014 11:46 PM
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FractalFusion wrote:
- BizHawk 1.7.0 and later are known not to work on some video cards (mainly older computers); it certainly doesn't work for me on the computer I am using now.
The machine mentioned by the user has a built in AMD Radeon HD 7640G, which should have very good support for OpenGL. I doubt this is the issue. It's possible that recent AMD catalyst graphics card drivers need to be installed if lack of OpenGL is the problem.