[The Shadow]

it doesnt run as smooth as it's supposed too,and it sometimes exits out un knownly.
my computer is fast enough to run it,,so i know that's not the problem.

 

[Samor]

sonic adventure dx has an annoying problem thats got probably to do with dsound acceleration. Sometimes I got it to run smoothly, but most of the time it does what you're saying. Try playing with your Dsound settings.

 

[The Shadow]

i don't know what dsound is.
lol,i know,i suck.

 

[deamonhunter]

my copy wont even be installed icant set it up on my win xp
i installed it on my win98 and played it from that folder strange he
about perfomance write your pc specs for me it doesnt run smooth all the time in 1024*768 res eveything maxed

 

[cooliscool]

Yeah.. every incarnation of Sonic Adventure DX is a poorly coded piece of crap, sadly.

 

[The Shadow]

here are my specs if this helps.

 

[Samor]

you'd be better off with sonic heroes, as that game doesn't suffer from this problem and is actually quite an awesome port;
As for sonic dx, I think on PC I got it running right once, but it seems to be kinda random, but based on directsound issues...

try changing the slider in the pic... set it to basic.

 

[The Shadow]

i already have my settings at that,and i already sonic heroes for gcn.

 

[Samor]

and if you change it to "none" or "full" ?

 

[The Shadow]

same thing happens.

 

[Samor]

too bad ...
you could try vsync settings as well...

 

[The Shadow]

vsync?

 

[Samor]

right. try turning vsync of your video card on or off..it might help. also, fiddling with the refresh rates might help a little.

What also helps, is Chankast (DC emulator) + Sonic Adventure; It's smooth at least, allthough it might crash later on in the game, not sure.

 

[The Shadow]

how do you do that?

 

[Samor]

depends on the videocard.
which one is it?

 

[The Shadow]

here it is i think.

 

[cooliscool]

No wonder it runs bad.. that "videocard" is a piece of crap.

 

[Samor]

nah, sonic dx is really low-spec. It just has a notorious stuttering problem;
I dont know where the vsync for s3 cards are. try the "advanced" button in that window and see if you can find gfx card settings

 

[cooliscool]

I realize it doesn't require much, but I don't tihnk even an S3 Unichrome really has what it takes.

/me slaps S3

 

[The Shadow]

it's not my video card,the system minimum had a card worse than mine.