[forbid]

Hi, could anyone explain to me this phenomena:

I have played Soul Calibur on Chankast .25a only with usual problems (menu screen glitches etc) for 2 days - with about 40-50fps on a GF2 MX (don't laugh, my proper card is being serviced).

After these two days Chanksat stopped to run 3D intro - it just closed after the "Namco" word & sample. No big problem - skipping the intro allowed the game to run normally.

Then again, on the next day, the emu stopped to run the fights - it closes to desktop after selecting anything from the main menu (except museum/art gallery). In other words, when any character selection screen should appear, Chankast closes to desktop.

What is strange that the game ran perfectly at first. It seems as if has slowly degraded

Re-installation of Chankast/Daemon Tools/Alcohol (also tried that)/Copying the image again from the backup CD - changes absolutely nothing. I have installed nothing in the time between the game smooth run and the problem, so no application/driver conflict is possible. I wasn't able to try any other games yet.

If anyone can shed any light on this, I would be happy.

My specs are Athlon 2000XP, GF 2 MX, 512 MB RAM, Gigabyte GA-7VA mobo, Win XP SP1.

 

[deamonhunter]

it is maybe because of your windows copy if its not original things like that could easily happen
try re-installing windows maybe it works (i know its maybe weird but try it if there is nothing to loose )
and what about 40,50fps on your gf2mx i,ve the machine below and i can hardly kick 35 on some stages only ,r these your real specs cuz i dont wanna sellmy fx5200 and buy a 2mx ??????

 

[l3illyl3ob]

the graphics card hardly effects the speed. Most likely, your machine is just simply using more resources than his.

 

[forbid]

Hmmm... without going into details, I don't think it's the Windows thing.

As for my Geforce MX - well, I was equally suprprised to see this kind of performance. What can I say - lucky me (as long as the game ran)

 

[forbid]

OK - problem solved.

I've deleted all cfg, vms and plugin files from the Chankast directory (except core plugins dlls) and everything is back fine. My guess is the cause was something in controller cfg or VMS.

How this wouldn't work when I reinstalled Chankast - remains a mystery.

 

[Shadow Lady]

cause when u reinstalled chankast (and i hate when people do this), u just copied the files from the zip to the same directory, meaning the vms and/or the cfg were just the same.

for the MX think, the card u are using wont have a big hit on performance unless it uses AA as the cpu is the one bottlenecking chankast. as why u have 40-50fps on an athlon xp 2000+ ? is a mistery to me, i get about the same and my 2400+ runs at 2.2 Ghz

 

[Raqia]

That's a pretty amazing frame rate range for that kind of a processor. I usually downclock the emulated CPU to about 55% and I scrape the bottom of that spectrum but it's very playable. Any settings or secrets you'd like to share with us? Are you using Win2k by any chance or do you just have a very clean bootup?

 

[forbid]

That's a pretty amazing frame rate range for that kind of a processor. I usually downclock the emulated CPU to about 55% and I scrape the bottom of that spectrum but it's very playable. Any settings or secrets you'd like to share with us? Are you using Win2k by any chance or do you just have a very clean bootup?

OK, to be totally honest: 40-50 fps is the average. During the game, the framerate can drop to 25 fps for a 1-2 seconds, when there's a lot happening on the screen. At the start of a fight and during the replays it reaches above 50 fps.

However, the first few seconds of 3D intro run at 10-12 fps, but then it's fine.

As I have said, I use Win XP - which I try te keep as clean as possible, but there are of course some firewall/antivir apps in the background. The system process monitor (I forgot how it is called in English, ctrl-alt-del window) shows 98-99% of the total resources are going to the emu - I don't know if it proves anything.

It is also strange that my RAM is nothing fancy - some 266mhz generic RAM, so no secret there also.

As for reinstalling Chankast - of course I installed it in a completely new directory, deleting the old one. I don't know, I just don't know

 

[grahf]

I refuse to believe you can get 40-50 fps on an axp2000 unless you can post screenshots of it.

 

[forbid]

I refuse to believe you can get 40-50 fps on an axp2000 unless you can post screenshots of it.

Then go ahead and don't believe The point of my post was to solve a problem, not to brag about my fps...

I'll try to post some screenshots later - not to prove anything, but to add some info about Chankast performance.
However screenshots can easily be fake or my specs can be better than I stated so you'll never be sure

 

[D.Strange]

I refuse to believe you can get 40-50 fps on an axp2000 unless you can post screenshots of it.

Hmm, he really can get this fps on his 2000+ - i just for interest downclocked my CPU to 1700+ and got 40fps - look:
http://www.emutalk.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=17870&stc=1
http://www.emutalk.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=17900&stc=1
http://www.emutalk.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=17901&stc=1

 

[forbid]

OK, weird problem is back with vengeance. Deleting the cfg files merely decreased the probability of it happening. I start to suspect it can be the MX card...

After much pain and suffering (as everybody, I guess) I also was able to run DoA2LE. Here the fps is far less impressive - it hardly ever reaches 20. No to mention that I have to use my suprhuman reflexes to skip the intro at the right moment to prevent Chankast from exiting to desktop.

 

[forbid]

Wierd problem solved once and for all

OK, so the MX card was the right direction.

I also found a similiar post at Emutalk - it was just the ancient video driver that came with the MX card. I installed somehing slightly more recent and now everything runs mighty fine.

By the way, on my old driver several thing didn't appear:
- SEGA load screens
- Big background elements in Soul Calibur (ships, snake etc)

All the noticed clues were random, it seems

Case closed, then.