Re: Sweet16 Slowdown..

[Drew <GoggleDrew@gmail.com>]

On 1 July, 08:26, Drew <GoggleD...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 28, 7:55 pm, Drew <GoggleD...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Jun 28, 7:32 pm, "Jeff Blakeney"
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> > <jeff.blake...@a2central.com.remove-xwk-this> wrote:
> > >   To: Drew
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> > > On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 11:59:40 -0700, Drew wrote:
> > > > Best game to see the sound problem is Silpheed actually as the intro
> > > > is longer. The KQII test i noticed that as the man walks from left to
> > > > right when the sound slows down the man also slows down. I have tested
> > > > some other games today such as Thexder with the same problem..its
> > > > doing my head in actually..as Kegs, bernie all seem to run fine on the
> > > > same hardware. Doesn't seem to make any real difference what speed the
> > > > emu thinks its running at.
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> > > I think I may have experienced problems like that with both those games
> > > on a real IIgs.  It has been a very long time but I'm pretty sure both
> > > of them had slow downs when executed on a stock IIgs.  I know I have
> > > Silpheed around here somewhere, I'm not sure about KQII.
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> > > If you don't find a reason soon, I'll have to dig up my game disks and
> > > try out at least Silpheed on my real IIgs.
>
> > Hi Jeff,
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> > I have a real GS too and have tried both games (though its an
> > accelerated GS). I got the laptops as i wanted something to play with
> > if away etc or if i just wanted a quick play on something the
> > emulators would be put to use rather than getting GS out and powering
> > it up.
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> > The problem isn't down to the GS being too slow and not able to play
> > the games full speed but more that the sound actually slows down
> > (along with the emu) which isn't normal. Unfortunatley once i find a
> > problem i really hate leaving it and have to find out why...
>
> > I played with some kexts for the netbook (1.6ghz Intel Atom) today to
> > improve speedstep support and first impressions is that it might have
> > helped (still saw some sound/emu slowdown but seemed less so). Its
> > possible that the Pismo being 400Mhz just isn't quick enough for
> > Sweet16 and hence i saw the issue on that as well. Maybe 2.0b18 will
> > be better on the pismo with the G3 support is added.
>
> > Cheers
> > Drew
>
> edit that above netbook is still slowing down :(

I know everyone is probably bored with this post now ;-), but I tested
it on a ibook G4 (1.3Ghz) and got the same problem. I did try the
original Sweet16 (version from bernie II site) and that ran the sound
fine.

Drew