Van Halen Man
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Is there any way to make glide 64 run faster?
possible to speed up Glide 64?
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Iconoclast
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Depends on the game you're playing for one thing.
Also depends on your system. If you got some specs and info about your computer to post here, that would help determination of this answer.
I'm sure legends got a nice set of preferences for various Glide64 wrappers as well.
Also depends on your system. If you got some specs and info about your computer to post here, that would help determination of this answer.
I'm sure legends got a nice set of preferences for various Glide64 wrappers as well.
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Van Halen Man
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Well lets see here:
OS: Win xp (home)
Processor: AMD Athlon 64X2 Duel core processor 3600+ 2.0 GHz
Memory: about 1 gig
gfx card: NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE 256 MB memory
that is all I can think of to post
edit: Oh yeah, and the game I need it for is Perfect Dark (for the IR scanner)
OS: Win xp (home)
Processor: AMD Athlon 64X2 Duel core processor 3600+ 2.0 GHz
Memory: about 1 gig
gfx card: NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE 256 MB memory
that is all I can think of to post
edit: Oh yeah, and the game I need it for is Perfect Dark (for the IR scanner)
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Van Halen Man
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uhh, give you some what?
oh woops, i didnt see "time" there. heh
oh woops, i didnt see "time" there. heh
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Van Halen Man
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Yeah sorry about that, I didnt see it there for some reason. oops
Edit: heh, something keeps happening while I am typing my edit or post and then I have to edit it. HEH
Edit: heh, something keeps happening while I am typing my edit or post and then I have to edit it. HEH
Legend
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Well, first make sure what you're using is from my post. Second, enabled HWFB. Third, make sure your not using any "wrapper" filters and a res. below that of 1280x1024. Fourth, try using CF=2. If still unhappy, you can use Jabo's 1.6 (or perferably Jabo's 1.7), you'll get better FPS with FB effects but not the accuracy or all the FB effects supported as with Glide64. Try 1964. Watch your opengl settings as they also will affect your performance. Or wait to see if Mudlord can optimize this a little. :icecream:
Gonetz
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I guess, you want special effects in Perfect Dark, like spycam or IR scanner, run faster, because everything else should work with decent speed on your system. Well, first, be sure that "motion blur" and "hardware frame buffer emulation" options are enabled. If it's still slow, click "wrapper" button, and in wrapper's settings enable "use framebuffer objects". Use 1964 for Perfect Dark.
mudlord
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okay, I'm back....
Van Halen Man, try the attached wrapper. It was compiled with MSVC2005 with maximum speed optimizations (its a optimizing compiler, just like ICC). Also, several tweaks were done on the inner loops of the texture/FBO HWFBE copying techniques (no texture cache changes were done, since ziggy now fixed the memory leaks completely)....
For this to work best, you must enable "use framebuffer objects". This was tested with
- Mario Kart 64 (full speed "read-every frame")
- Banjo-Kazooie (same as above)
- 1080 Snowboarding (makes a large difference...See for yourself...)
- Bomberman 64 (same as above)
Van Halen Man, try the attached wrapper. It was compiled with MSVC2005 with maximum speed optimizations (its a optimizing compiler, just like ICC). Also, several tweaks were done on the inner loops of the texture/FBO HWFBE copying techniques (no texture cache changes were done, since ziggy now fixed the memory leaks completely)....
For this to work best, you must enable "use framebuffer objects". This was tested with
- Mario Kart 64 (full speed "read-every frame")
- Banjo-Kazooie (same as above)
- 1080 Snowboarding (makes a large difference...See for yourself...)
- Bomberman 64 (same as above)
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A.I.
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No, that's with glide wonder++!!! I deleted the optimized plugin.
And you know what is even weirder? Fbe is working!!!
Edit: Where do i get the latest MSVC2005 runtimes and how and where do i install it?
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mudlord
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Is it just me or do I sense a great deal of sarcasm here....:whistling
Updated MSVC2005 runtimes are here.
Legend
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Hey,
Would you recommend this build over your last release here:
"New Windows build (Based on ziggy's version 11 of his Glide64/wrapper Linux port):
* Added support for 32-bit textures
* Depth bias is completely fixed
Built with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005"
I'll probably not use FBO's as there is more accuracy with it off but overall should this build simply be better than before (speed increases - nothing sacrificed). If that's the case, then this should definetly go in the Glide64 forums. Also, is it still based on ver. 11 also of Ziggy's or his latest? I'll go try it out none the less. Thanks.
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mudlord
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Yes, I would, namely due to the speed tweaks. The main changes this one has over the last one are:
* Tweaks to the texture copying based on info from NVIDIA on optimal texture formats
* Much more aggressive compiler optimizations (basically, the optimizations are turned right up on full speed optimizations, with threading/fiber optimizations, as well as link-time code generation [excludes PGO unfortunately, didnt have time to profile it].)
* Changed the wrapper to use a multithreaded runtime DLL
This is still based on ziggy's latest public code. Its true that accuracy is better with FBOs off, but personally, the main difference with it is with Resident Evil 2 (and there is no simple way to write into the depth buffer using framebuffer objects. Ziggy's method overcomes this,).
Basically, no sacrifices are made. No tex cache changes are made, which means memory usage should be fine and it should fluctuate and not leak at all, since I didn't touch the texture caching code at all.