[Omegainf]

I have a Twin Shock USB gamepad and when I enable force feedback on my games it causes a HUGE frame drop (sometimes to 30fps) when there's a rumble effect, everything works @ full speed when the gamepad is not vibrating tough =/ Does anyone have a solution for this one?

Thanks in advance.

 

[dbhankins]

Try sssPSX, you can use pad plugins with it that support rumble. Maybe they will have less performance impact.

You're using DirectX with constant motor for both large and small? Maybe your pad doesn't have two motors and the slowdown comes from the system trying to drive nonexistent hardware. Try setting large or small motor to none and see if that helps.

It could be a system problem - is your system's overall power drain near the limits of its power supply? If it is, the additional power needed to drive the rumble could be reducing power to your graphics card and therefore its speed. If this is the problem, you should see similar symptoms with PC games that support rumble. Do you?


Dan

 

[Omegainf]

Try sssPSX, you can use pad plugins with it that support rumble. Maybe they will have less performance impact.

I've tried that with PSXeven but the only plugin that supports rumble is the Harakiri pad but the force feedback didn't work in-game even tough it worked fine on the plugin configuration =/

You're using DirectX with constant motor for both large and small? Maybe your pad doesn't have two motors and the slowdown comes from the system trying to drive nonexistent hardware. Try setting large or small motor to none and see if that helps.

It does have two motors, I can check/test them on the control panel. I've tried different settings as you suggested and the slowdowns still occured.

It could be a system problem - is your system's overall power drain near the limits of its power supply? If it is, the additional power needed to drive the rumble could be reducing power to your graphics card and therefore its speed. If this is the problem, you should see similar symptoms with PC games that support rumble. Do you?

Nopz, everything works just fine on PC and N64 games so I guess it's not a power supply problem either

Thanks for the help!

 

[dbhankins]

sssPSX's built-in pad plugin supports rumble.


Dan

 

[Omegainf]

Ops, sorry, forgot to try ssspsx! :O

NO MORE SLOWDOWNS, YAY!!! It works just fine now, thanks you very much for your help!

 

[dbhankins]

I don't know about others, but that's the kind of response - and results - that keeps me coming back to help.


Dan

 

[3x3cUt0r]

In ePSXe just change the mode from Sine (this one can cause slowdowns) to Constant.