[MC91]

Not sure what the problem but it seems to apply to all the games that I play. The problem is that I experience slowdowns quite frequently. The game would slow down to a few fps for a couple seconds and eventually run fine. It happens probably, every 10 minutes or so? Not a huge issue but it does take away from the general experience.

My computer most likely isn't the problem since it has pretty good specs. I usually only have msn or firefox open when I'm using it. Are there specific configurations I could use or change on no$gba?

I'm using 2.6a if that matters.

 

[Squall-Leonhart]

Clockstate management, known as cool & quiet on amd chips.

intel's speedstepping doesn't generally have such issues.

 

[SCHUMI_4EVER]

Or it could be a laptop overheating and underclocking itself to stay cool.

 

[MC91]

Clockstate management, known as cool & quiet on amd chips.

intel's speedstepping doesn't generally have such issues.

Is there anything I could do about it? (besides not buying a new computer)

 

[nanaya]

Try disabling Cool n Quiet or speedstep via bios also set your power mode to high performance.

 

[MC91]

Any downsides if I decide to do that?

I haven't tried other emulators but do you know if this same problem would apply to those aswell?

 

[Squall-Leonhart]

Only those which access the Timer directly instead of via the windows api.

 

[Lex_Light]

I think that this problem does apply for every emus.

 

[MC91]

A friend of mine has no problems at all when he plays on his emulator. The only times he suffers any kind of slowdown are during graphics-intensive areas such as opening movies.

Thanks for the help but I managed to solve the problem slightly. I changed some of the setting on the emulator which made it run faster. Some slowdowns here and there, but overall much better.