Hm, you are right. I never noticed that, but it's an unnecessary waste of multi-tasking capability.

I found one workaround for now: enable automatic frame skipping.
it seems like suanyuan did not only optimize the frame skipping, but somehow also improved the emulator's cycle-behavior.

 

Hmmm...it works so far now.

 

Uh oh...not again...
Its lagging, but this time, VBA is only showing 50-64 % on the top of the window. This is getting really annoying...Spacy, help!

 

Did you activate VSync?

I don't really understand your point. Even though VBA uses all your processing power, you could still simply select the lowest priority. Other applications will get enough processing time this way. For me it works this way.

 

Ok...I think I know now. I've been using the VBA version 1.8.
When I tried using the version 1.7, everything seemed to work out fine.
Thanks for you help Spacy.

 

OK, I tried it too.
It's really depressing for me to find more and more strange Bugs in the current version. I hope I can fix them somehow.

 

It seems tha VBA gets slower with each version.

To Spacy: I tried profiling the newest build and the results are quite interesting - I'll e-mail them to you if you want

 

Yah, it does seem that way...
Could it be from too much calculations at once?? (Im new to coding so I dont know-LOL).

 

Yeah i've noticed that too. I remember once before with my old crap computer and a god-knows-how-old VBA version and played FFTA at constant 250% speed using auto-framskip and 250% throttle.
Yet now with my 3.0ghz intel E 3.0ghz, 1gb ram, 7800gtx and VBA 1.8.0 i can only sometimes get up to 250%...

 

It seems tha VBA gets slower with each version.

To Spacy: I tried profiling the newest build and the results are quite interesting - I'll e-mail them to you if you want

That would be nice.

I used AMD's profile a while ago, but the results showed that VBA spends most of the time in the emulation loop, if I remember correctly.

Nevertheless, send me the report and tell me what you find interesting, now I am curious ;D

 

Oh and i forgot to mention, most of the time forcing the frameskip higher will obtain the throttle i ask for, while using auto-detect it will barely get the throttle i wish for at any times at all.

In my experience all the compatability issues have been slaughtered, so maby it should be bent more on speed now?

I'll try comparing emulator versions...

holy *****, the speed differances are huge!!
I tried 1.6 and compared it with 1.8

1.6:
No frameskip:
Steady 500%-550% with the speed button and frameskip at 0
With just throttle and not speed i obtain various 300-400%

Frameskip
I can finish battles within a minute
I get steady 1000% with the max throttle (coincidentally 1000%)
With speed button... i was to afraid to try...


1.8
No frameskip
Extremely unstable 150-300% with speed button
less, but still, unstable 80-250% with throttle..

Frameskip
Speed button gives 250-350% with insane video lagg
Throttle gives 150-280% - only survivable mode to play ffta with v 1.8.0 when i want extra speed.

Tested on my machine:
geforce 7 7800gtx
pentium 4 extreme edition 3ghz
1gb RAM
windows XP sp2

 

i think they should make 2 versions, one without the tools (oam view, map view etc... just for ppl who only play and not debug things etc...)except for the memory viewer and disassembler (for cheats ) and one with all those tools, maybe this increase the speed?

 

Nope those tools are on 1.6 too. So i doubt it

 

Nope those tools are on 1.6 too. So i doubt it

i know, but taking off those "useless" (not for some ppl) may decrease the cpu load, well i don't know, i just play games to hack codes XD the games here most of the time are 100%, some games like F-ZERO at frame skip 0 goes about 80~95%, the final fantasy 4 advance intro (when starting a new game) 86~100%

 

You know, with the speed difference with the two VBA versions, do you think Project64 has this same problem? I dont htink I should test this becasue my comp is crappy...:drool:

 

Even more of a reason for you to be the test dummy, mine is so powerfull i won't be able to tell the difference anyway.

 

Ok...forget about the older-version-Project64 thing...its way slower than the most current version (1.6). :dead:

 

I thought 1.7 was the latest version. Oh well maby just my imagination.

 

I thought 1.7 was the latest version. Oh well maby just my imagination.

1.7 is latest beta, available to donators only right now, yet to be finalized.
1.6 is latest stable.